Vallo dv faict de la gverre et art militaire
Subtitle: Tractant de L'office des Capitaines Soldarths, De affaulx, & defenses de [icel]les, ou places fortes - Formes de Batallons - Artifices de feu, de diuerses pouldres, & machines - Vaisseaulx, Moules. Ponts, Eschieles, tournetz, ou molinetz - Trenchêes, & Mines, & Caues. auec les figures. Item, Certes formes de secretes intelligences, & signes, & diuerses conditions de singuliers Combatz
Contributors: Moderne, Jacques, active 1523-1544
Edition: Le tout nouuellemēt ordōné et augmēte. Auec Priuilege.
Series: French books before 1601 -- reel 65, item 9
Publisher: Iacques Moderne
Published: 1554
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Military art and science; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Field Fortification; Sieges; Tactics
Other titles: Vallo du faict de la guerre et art militaire.
Notes: Portion of title illegible: "defenses de ...les", probably "defenses de [icel]les"

Author handwritten on t.p. as "Valle. B. della"; appears as "Conte de Venfra Baptiste de la Valle Venafrano" in heading of introductory letter, leaf [1]

Possibly an updated version of his "Vallo libro continent appertenentie ad capitanii, retenere & fortificare una citta cō bastioni...", first published in Naples, 1521.

Imprint place and publisher name from colophon.

Imprint date from privilege on t.p. verso, "Fait a Lyon le Lundy huictieme iour du moys Doctobre Lan M.D.LIIII."

T.p. in architectural border ; initials ; printer's device on leaf [88]

Ills. throughout of fortifications, devices, timers, siege engines, troop formations.