148-2 - [Artillery] [Military Science] UFANO (Diego). Artillery, or: A True Guide to Artillery and All Its Aspects. Including a description of all matters pertaining to the duties of a general of artillery, both during a siege and in a besieged location [...]. Published in Zutphen by André d’Aelst, 1621. One in-4 volume, in very worn contemporary sheepskin, covers formerly lined with paper. (2) ff., 144 pp., 2 pp. [of 6]. Upper cover detached; significant damage and wear; tears; water stains at the end of the volume; the last page of text is incomplete.

[Artillery] [Military Science] UFANO (Diego). Artillery, or: A True Guide to Artillery and All Its Aspects. Including a description of all matters pertaining to the duties of a general of artillery, both during a siege and in a besieged location [...]. Published in Zutphen by André d’Aelst, 1621. One in-4 volume, in very worn contemporary sheepskin, covers formerly lined with paper. (2) ff., 144 pp., 2 pp. [of 6]. Upper cover detached; significant damage and wear; tears; water stains at the end of the volume; the last page of text is incomplete. A rare French edition of this military treatise by the Spanish artillery captain Diego Ufano, originally published in Spanish in Brussels in 1612, then translated into French and printed in Frankfurt as early as 1614. 25 preserved copperplate engravings, some spanning two pages, depicting, in particular, cannons, mortars, military machines, siege equipment, and firing techniques. Handwritten bookplate of Jean Richier de Cerisy, 1690.