El perfeto capitan, instruido en la diciplina militar, y nueua ciencia de la artilleria
By: por don Diego de Alaba y Viamont ...
Publisher: Por Pedro Madrigal
Published: 1590
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Perfeto capitan, instrvido en la diciplina militar, y nueva ciencia de la artilleria
Notes: First edition. Cf. Palau y Dulcet.

Title-page vignette (royal arms of Spain).

Illustrated with tables and woodcuts showing military tactics and the flight of projectiles; historiated woodcut initials throughout.

Folded table attached to recto of leaf 170.

Errata: leaf [9], last sequence.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[dagger]-3[dagger]⁶ 3[dagger]6=plate A-2I⁸ 2K-2L⁶ (last leaf blank).

Anninger, A. Spanish & Portugese, 177

Palau y Dulcet, 4834

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled sheep, remains of one tie.

Rebound in 20th-century blind-stamped sheep, spine title gilt, edges sprinkled blue.