Bologna, Agostino Parisini & Giovanni Battista Negroponte, [1630s].
Prospettiva di fortificationi dell’ingegnere et capitano Portigiani….
Rare first edition of this important and graphically striking work on sixteenth-century fortification by Girolamo Portigiani (c. 1540-91). Consisting entirely of finely engraved images of star forts and details of their defensive systems, the volume is in fact as much a book about virtuoso perspective as it is an exploration..... More