En tibi lector Robertum Valturium ad illustrem heroa Sigismundum Pandulphum Malatestam Ariminensium regem, De re militari libris XII
Subtitle: multò emaculatius, ac picturis, quae plurimae in eo sunt, elegantioribus expressum, quàm cùm Veronae inter initia artis chalcographicae anno M.cccclxxxiii. inuulgaretur
Contributors: Jollat, wood engraver; Ramusio, Paolo, 1442 or 1443-1506; Wechel, Chrestien, 1495-1554, printer
Publisher: Apud Christianum Wechelum, sub insigni scuti Basiliensis.
Published: 1534
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800
Other titles: En tibi lector Robertvm Valtvrivm ad illvstrem heroa Sigismvndum Pandulphum Malatestam Ariminensium regem, De re militari libris XII; De re militari libris XII
Notes: Edited by Paolo Ramusio, who signs the preliminary dedication.

Printer's device with motto "Vnicum arbustum non alit duos erithacos" on t.p. and repeated on verso of final leaf.

Colophon reads: Lutetiae, apud Christianum Wechelum, anno M.D. XXXIIII. mense Septe[m]bri.

The woodcuts (several bearing the monogram of Jollat) are reversed free copies of those in the 1483 Italian edition. The original series, which appeared in the 1472 first ed., has been attributed to Matteo De' Pasti or his school.

Signatures: a⁶ A-2I⁶.

Woodcut initials.

Rare Book: T.-p. mutilated.

Harvard/Mortimer, French 16th cent. books, no. 536