Dell'arte militare libri cinqve
Subtitle: ne' qvali si tratta il modo di  fortificare, offeendere [sic], et diffendere vna fortezza : et l'ordine come si debbano fare gli alloggiamenti campali & formare le battaglie : et nell'vltimo l'essamine de' bombardieri, & di far fuochi arteficiati
By: di Girolamo Cataneo novarese
Publisher: Appresso Thomaso Bozzola
Published: 1584
Place of publication: In Brescia
Language: ita
Subjects: Fortification; Military fireworks; Early works to 1800; Military art and science; Siege warfare
Other titles: Dell'arte militare libri cinque
Notes: An expanded version of Cataneo's Dell'arte militare libri tre (Brescia : T. Bozzola, 1571). Also issued at Brescia in the same year by P.M. Marchetti. See BM.

Pts. 2-5 have added t.p.'s. Each pt. separately foliated and signed, the 5 sequences of signatures having from 1 to 5 letters.

Bozzola's device appears on all t.p.'s (griffin). Numerous woodcut ill. including many double-page and some on folded leaves. The double-page ill. have letterpress on the verso and are tipped onto a stub at the centerfold; most of them are assigned a separate signature letter and included in the foliation as two leaves. Initials.

Foliation, pt. 1: [4], 80 leaves (4 folded) ; pt. 2: 35 leaves (1 folded); pt. 3: 30, [1] leaves (the last blank, 4 folded); pt. 4: [1], 29 leaves; pt. 5: [2], 39, [1] leaves.

Folded leaf 33 bound in at end of pt. 2. Leaf 16 (comprising 2 folded leaves) and single folded leaves 20 and 23 bound in at end of pt. 3. There are 2 additional folded leaves bound after pt. 3; they appear to be printed with the woodcuts for the first two diagrams of leaf 20, but without the accompanying letterpress.

BM

Binding: old limp vellum. Author and title written on paper label at head of spine.

Inscription on front pastedown: Vale. Paoli, 2. Below is another: di Bernard.no ?Minucchi / L2.10. An inscription on the t.p. at either side of the device has been scratched out. Arithmetical sum in right margin of t.p. Bibliographical note in pencil on back free endpaper verso, followed by an inscription (now scratched out), and the pencilled signature: ...Joseph.
Table of contents: title: libro 2.; title: Nel qval si mostra vn novo modo di fabricar le fortezze si per prattica, come per teorica -- -- libro 3.; title: Come si deve formare con prestezza le moderne battaglie di picche, archibvgieri, et cavalleria; con tre auisi del modo del marchiare -- -- libro 4.; title: Dove con tavole brevissime si mostra quante file vanno a formare con prestezza vna giustissima battaglia, con li svoi armati di corsaletti da cento fin à ventimillia huomini, et appresso vn facilissimo et approvato modo di armarla di archibuggieri & di ale di caualleria secondo l'vso moderno -- -- libro 5.; title: De gli avvertimenti, et essamini intorno a qvelle cose che richiede a vn bombardiero.