Capitan d'artegliaria. Opera non ancora d'altro autore trattata [...].
4to. (10) pp., one blank leaf, 59 (but: 57) pp., final blank. Title within engraved border. Contemporary limp full vellum.
€ 750,00
Very scarce treatise about the duties of an artillery captain. No earlier edition could be traced in spite of Cockle's reference to a 1628 edition, mentioned in another work by Zonta, "Compendioso trattato della militar geometrica professione" (1644).
Binding a little duststained; small sketches in red crayon to lower cover and flyleaf. Small portions of the covers' lower margins are missing. Interior shows tiny wormholes in a few places. From the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. Only a few copies traceable in libraries worldwide, none outside Italy.
Cockle 693. USTC 4017820. Not in Spaulding/Karpinski.