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Title: [Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics].
Contributor Names: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: [Italy? 17th cent.]
Subject Headings: - Military topography; - Military engineering
Notes: - Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered.; - Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors.; - The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish.; - Francesco Tensini, whose work La fortificatione was first published in 1624, is quoted on leaves 29 and [102].; - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1363; - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium: [275] l., illus. (part col.), 12 x 16 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location: Rosenwald Coll. ms. no. 27
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1363
Library of Congress Control Number: 50032645
Online Format: image; pdf
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/50032645
Additional Metadata Formats: MARCXML Record; MODS Record; Dublin Core Record

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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Sketchbook on Military Art, Including Geometry, Fortifications, Artillery, Mechanics, and Pyrotechnics. [Italy? 17th cent, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/50032645/.

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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1600) Sketchbook on Military Art, Including Geometry, Fortifications, Artillery, Mechanics, and Pyrotechnics. [Italy? 17th cent] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50032645/.

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