Basta, Le Gouvernement de la cavallerie legiere, Hanau, 1614, half red morocco

BASTA, GIORGIO

Le Gouvernement de la cavallerie legiere [translated by de Bry]. Hanau: Johann Theodor de Bry, 1614

folio (285 x 192mm.), title within engraved border, 10 (of 12) engraved plates (double-page or folding), nineteenth-century half red morocco, new endpapers, lacking 2 plates, a few plates slightly trimmed, occasional worming to foot, minor staining

Basta's treatise on cavalry was first published posthumously in Venice in 1612.

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Cockle 724; VD17 23:300510X