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The arte of warre / written in Italian by Nicholas Machiavel ; and set foorth in English by Peter Withorne ...
Author
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
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Uniform title
Arte della guerra.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Newly imprinted with other additions.
Published/Created
[London : s.n.], 1573 (M.D.LXXIII)
Description
2 pts. in 1 v. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Availability
Available Online
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Special Collections - Rare Books
U101 .M16 1573 ex
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Subject(s)
Military art and science
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Early works to 1800
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Military fireworks
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Early works to 1800
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War
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Early works to 1800
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Gunpowder
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Early works to 1800
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Related name
Grantham, Henry, active 1571-1587
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Former owner
Wilmerding, Lucius, 1880-1949
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Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631
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Annotations (Provenance)
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16th century
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Notes
Pt. 2 has title: Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after divers fashions, with their maner of marching: and also fugures of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and more over, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder, and divers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres / gathered & set foorth by Peter VVhitehorne. Imprinted at London : By VV. VVilliamson for Ihon [sic] VVight, 1573.
Translation of: L'arte della guerra.
Title within ornamental border, signed at lower left 'R.S.' (McKerrow and Ferguson, Title-page Borders, [London, 1932], no. 116).
Illustrations are ranks and files of letters and punctuation marks.
Translator identified probably as Henry Grantham. cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 351, p. 358 (NM-0055019)
Ex copy is pt. 1 only.
Binding note
Ex copy in later calf.
Provenance
Ex copy is Gabriel Harvey's copy with his ms. notes.
Source acquisition
Purchase Estate of Lucius Wilmerding, Jr. 2003
References
ESTC S111900
STC 17165, 4790
Cockle 12b, 19
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Also available in an electronic version.
LCCN
nuc87614574
OCLC
1340483609
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