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Parisiis, apud Christinum Wechelum, MD.XXXII [1532]. Folio (331x204 mm). Bound in contemporary half vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Spine made of vellum leaf from Antiphonary Lower part of spine with wormhole. Title-page with circular repair (measuring 32x32 mm), not affecting text. Previous owner's ?name to title-page and two leaves with a few marginal annotation in the same hand. The following pages with marginal wormtract, far from affecting text: pp. 111-208 and 229-252. Vague dampstain affecting lower part of inner margin of Pp. 185-285, otherwise internally fine. (12), 383, (1) pp. The Rare first edition of Valturio's landmark work to be printed printed in France. The work constitutes the very first book "printed with illustrations of a technical or scientific character" (PMM). The magnificent woodcuts are 'reversed free copies' (Mortimer) of the blocks used to illustrate the second edition (Verona, 1483) which were in turn copied from the first edition (Verona: Johannes, 1472). Cockle notes that these illustrations were 'said to be from da Vinci's drawings'. (Cockle p. 134). The De Re Militari is essentially a compendium of the latest techniques and devices for scaling walls, catapulting missiles, ramming fortifications, and torturing enemies and the work marks the transition between Medieval and Renaissance warfare with the application of cannons and gunpowder. Soon after it's first appearance in 1472 The work became a primary handbook for Renaissance princes and military leaders: Leonardo da Vinci made use of it while acting as chief engineer to Cesare Borgia and even before its first printing the treatise was highly regarded and circulated in manuscript.The work kept being reprinted several times and the dates suggests it continued to be of more than antiquarian value: The 1484 edition appeared shortly after the accension of the militant Charles VIII and the present edition came on the heels of Francis I's important reorganization of the French army. "The historical importance of the De Re Militari lies in the fact that it is the first book printed with illustrations of a technical or scientific character depicting the progressive engineering ideas of the author's own time. The woodcuts illustrate the equipment necessary for the military and naval engineer" they include revolving gun turrets, platforms and ladders for sieges, paddle-wheels, a diver's suit, a lifebelt, something resembling a tank, pontoon and other bridges, a completely closed boat that could be half submerged, etc. [.]The Verona Valturius and its reprints were the handbooks of the military leaders of the Renaissance, and Leonardo da Vinci, when acting as chief engineer to Cesare Borgia, possessed a copy and borrowed some of its designs."-Printing & the Mind of Man 10-(1st ed. of 1472)."The first printed edition of Valturio's work (1472) was a masterpiece of typography and woodcut. The woodcuts (or at least the drawings) were formerly attributed to Matteo de' Pasti" but they may have been done, as E. Rodakiewicz has proposed, by Fra Giovanni Giocondo Veronese. Military leaders of the period held the book in high esteem, and Leonardo da Vinci copied passages of the text and commented on them. Some of the manuscripts, such as those at Dresden and Munich, which contain very fine drawings, may have been produced after the first printed edition and in fact were based upon it." (DSB)Adams V-224Mortimer Harvard French 535Cockle 501Honeyman 3024.Stillwell p. 289 (No. 897).(For the the first edition see (1472:)" PMM no. 10 Dibdin no. 172).

Vellum. Etat : Very Good. Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 13 February 1483. Folio. [*]6 numbered 'ii iii', the first signature not signed, a10, b-z8, &10, ?10, A-D8, E10, 10 being blank. [300 x 205mm]. Seventeenth century limp vellum with gilt borders to both boards and small gilt devices to the four compartments. Old shelf sticker to the spine foot and titles in hand to the very top of the first compartment. Edges a little scuffed, the vellum yellowed and a little soiled, with light cracking in the vellum to the first two bands, with small chipping to the second in particular. Binding a little shaken but still very strong. Puncture holes at board fore-edges for ties, which are no longer present. Bookplate to the paste-down endpaper of Toronto collector Mark Andrews, with pencil erasure (some left) to the front endpaper, in Italian. Small paper repair to bottom gutter of [*]2-4, with very small brown spots to the margins, &10 with tear to one word, leaf E1 (verso) with paper strip along gutter. Repairs to upper gutter beginning at C4 for the whole of book 3. Light yellow stain to the fore-edge margin through most of the book, fading to smaller in some spots, with faint foxing to some margins, and the 'D' in signature D4 inverted. Very small worm hole in the middle of leaves *ii-aii. Last leaf of text E9, with waxy or oily brown splash, and a large piece of the upper corner with early paper fill-in, lost words added in hand, affecting approximately 10 words. Early notes in the margins of several leaves. The rear endpaper with very light 'controlled' mold spots to the lower fore-edge corner. Occasional staining throughout, but very small, (see A2), plates are all clean and bright, overall, very clean throughout. Edited by Paulus Ramusius, Junior. This is the second Latin edition, the first was 1472. It is the first book printed with technical illustrations depicting the progressive engineering ideas of the time. The Verona Valturius and its reprints were reference books used by the military leaders of the Renaissance, including Leonardo da Vinci who possessed a copy and borrowed some of the designs during his time as chief engineer to Cesare Borgia. The treatise on war-craft was written by Valturius while he served as engineer to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta of Rimini. The largely traditional methods of siege-warfare as described by Valturius were still practiced at the time, despite the introduction of gunpowder a century earlier. First published in Verona in 1472, this edition was completed by Bonino de Boninus, who completed a considerably rarer edition in Italian within the same week. Both editions include the same woodcut illustrations used in the first edition, although the order in the Italian edition varies slightly. The subjects cover a wide range of war machines and military equipment, which are beautifully illustrated here in woodcut. Bodleian Library V-042; Goff V-89; PMM 10 (for the first edition.).