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De lo schermo overo Scienza d'arme / di Salvator Fabris capo dell' ordine dei sette cori

Accession number
PML 151176
Creator
Fabris, Salvator, -1617.
Published
Copenhaven : Henrico Waltkirch, Anno domini 1606.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Colophon: Si fini distampare li discorsi, adi 25. Settembre M.DC. VI. Nella citta di Coponaghen, Metropli del Regno di Dania, Appresso Hendrich Walchirchen.
Nicolaus Andreae of Flensburg engraved the title page and portraits of Fabris.
Includes 191 engravings, variously signed: "I.h. sculp" for Jan van Halbeeck and "FV" for Francesco Valesio.
Title page to part II, p. [151].
Description
[6], 256 pages : illustrated (191 engravings), 1 coat of arms, 2 ports. ; 33 cm (fol)
Provenance
Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the printed books preserved at Haigh hall, Wigan (1910), vol. II, 3273); Julia P. Wightman, purchased in 1945.
Binding
20th-century half red goatskin with marbled paper sides, by Julia Wightman, 1950.
Classification
Department