Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, & difese delle città & d'altri luoghi
By: di Carlo Theti ; diuisi in libri otto, oue diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle fortezze, le forme i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose a loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse ...
Edition: Hora di nuouo da lui medesimo ricorretti, & ampliati.
Publisher: Appresso Francesco de Franceschi senese
Published: 1588
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Subjects: Fortification -- Early works to 1800.; Sieges -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Second pt. (Libri 3-8) has separate t.p., with imprint: In Venetia : Appresso Nicolò Moretti, 1588.

Pagination, pt. [1]: [4], 47 [i.e. 49] p., [4] leaves of plates; pt. [2]: [4], 86, 70, [2] (blank) p., [20] leaves of plates. Pt. [1], p. [49] is printed on the recto of the 1st leaf of plates.

The ill. comprise numerous in-text cuts and 12 double-page plates, bound in at the center fold.

Signatures, pt. [1]: [dagger]² A-M²; pt. [2]: [pi]² A-X² Y²(-Y2) ²A-S². The double-page plates in pt. [2] are signed on the recto of the first leaf to indicate their relation to the gathering they follow. Thus the 3 plates after T² are signed Tij, Tiiij, Tiiiiij (the 2nd leaf of T² being unsigned).

Binding: later decorated paper, quarter vellum. Spine title written upwards in brown ink: Theti = Discorsi delle Fortificationi = 1589. The edges yellow.

Centered on front pastedown is bookplate of Giovanni Muzio.