Delle fortificationi di Giouan[n]i Scala mathematico
Contributors: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, former owner
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1596
Place of publication: Romae
Language: ita
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Fortification; Designs and plans; Early works to 1800; Bastions; Architecture; Details; Italian Architecture
Other titles: Delle fortificationi di Giovanni Scala mathematico; Delle fortificationi di Giovani Scala mathematico
Notes: "Al Christianissimo Re di Francia e di Navarra Henrico IIII"

Dedication signed "Giouanni Scala"

Presents 49 pairs of measured and labeled bastions on 49 rectos: the upper image showing finished bulwark with parapets, flanks and gorges; the lower for draftsmen showing the points, line and angles

With 108 half-page, 2 full-page and 2 double-page engravings by Scala; with engraved dedication, engraved epigram to Scala, engraved allegorical and architectural title page with arms of Henri IV; printed on rectos only (the double-page engravings are on verso-recto openings)

Plates printed with legends and captions

Avery Classics copy: With the bookplate of Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (monogram and motto: Dokimazein, Katechein), inside front cover

Avery Classics copy: Binding: Contemporary limp vellum

Avery Classics copy: With bookplate of Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc--Page [2] of cover

Avery Classics copy: Binding: in contemporary limp vellum

In Italian with dedication in Latin