Opera nvova di fortificare, offendere et difendere
Subtitle: et far gli alloggiamenti campali, secondo l'uso di guerra : aggiontovi nel fine vn trattato de gl'essamini de' bombardieri, & di far fuochi arteficiati : cosa molto vtile e dilettevole
By: di Girolamo Cataneo novarese
Publisher: Appresso Gio. Battista Bozola
Published: 1564
Place of publication: In Brescia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Fortification; Military fireworks; Early works to 1800; Siege warfare; Military architecture
Other titles: Opera nuova di fortificare, offendere et difendere
Notes: Numerous woodcut ill. and diagrams. Twenty are double-page; they form part of the sequence of foliation, and some have letterpress on the back. Leaves 35, 38, and the final unfoliated leaf entitled "Alloggiamento campali" are folded ill.  Printer's device on t.p.  Initials.

Printer given in colophon: Lodouico di Sabbio.

Includes errata, leaf [5] verso and [6] recto, first sequence.

The 20 double-page ill. in Library's c. 2 have been hinged in at the centerfold. The final folded plate in both Getty copies have been similarly hand colored.

In Library's c. 2, *3-4 bound after *6 (1st gathering).

Library's c. 2 bound with: Duo libri del modo di fare le fortificationi / Giacomo Lanteri. Venice : B. Zaltieri, 1559.

Binding, c. 1: limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Title written on spine: CATANEO / DI FORTIFICARE / . Bombardieri // 1564. Shelf mark at upper left on front cover. Theodore Besterman's label centered on front pastedown.

Binding, c. 2: limp vellum. Title written at head of spine in brown ink: Cataneo / Arte / Militare; 1564 written below in black ink. Remains of 4 pairs of ties at head, foot, and foredge. At upper left corner of front pastedown is book label of Biblioteca Banzi.