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Venetia: Gracioso Percacino, 1570. Soft cover. Near Fine. No printer, no place. - Folio (41x28 cm). - ]64], 406 pages; blank leaf at *4 is present, lacks the final blank leaf. - The possible publication place as Venice is identified from the dedication and license, while Percacino's name is given by D.E. Rhodes in his "Silent Printers. Anonymous Printing in Venice in the Sixteenth Century", p.9. - Contemporary soft vellum somewhat soiled, else fine. End-papers more soiled due to age; rest of interior almost very fine, with wide margins. - Printed in Italics. - Printed marginalia, as well as a profusion of marginal comments in ink, in neat old hand. - Engraved title within large architectural borders, with the standing figure of Emperor Maximilian II (the dedicatee of the book}, as well as allegorical statues of the Four Virtues and the Four Sciences - With 39 engravings (mostly of plans for fortresses), 19 of them double-page, as well as 12 full-page engraved… Read More