Getty copy bound with: Ragionamenti de Nicolo Tartaglia sopra la sua travagliata inventione (Venice : Apresso di l'autore, 1551) -- Inventione de Nicolo Tartaglia (Venice : Nicolo de Bascarini a istantia de l'authore, 1550) -- Regola generale a sulevare con ragione e misura / Nicolo Tartaglia (Venice : Nicolo de Bascarini, 1551)

Binding: old limp vellum. Author and brief title written at head of spine, and again downwards on the spine. Shelf mark on slip of paper at foot of spine. Holes for 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Spine of textblock reinforced with vellum MS waste

At either side of author's port. on t.p. are two impressions of the stamp of: BIB. M. MORCINI DE PERVSIA [i.e. Perosa Argentina, Italy]. Inscription on front free endpaper recto: Monte Magno(?): Per Vso del P. D. Nicolo et della libraria

Place of publication from colophon, which continues: ...per Nicolo de Bascarini, ad instantia & requisitione, & à proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia autore. Nell'anno di nostra salute M D LIIII

Signatures: A-II⁴

Woodcut port. of author on t.p. Diagrams throughout text. Illus. on 72v repeated as folded tip-on at 71r. Historiated initials

Dedication to Henry VIII, King of England, A4

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