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4to, pp. [vii], [i] blank, 426; with eleven folding leaves of plates; text within double border, woodcut printer's device on title-page; aside from very occasional spotting, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary carta rustica, upper half of spine loose and chipped, and some wear to other extremities; book-label of the Prussian/Norwegian collector Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Brose on front paste-down.Rare expanded and updated edition of this collection of the rules governing the conduct, organisation, and military exercises of the Venetian army, first published in 1724, updated in 1735, and here with a supplement dated December 28, 1752, continuously paginated but with its own title-page. All editions are very scarce.
The author, Johann Mathias von der Schulenberg (1661-1747) was a German aristocrat who spent the end of his military career in the Venetian army, serving during the siege of Corfu in 1716 before retiring to Venice in 1718 to establish a significant art collection, correspond with… Read More