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Dialogos militares, : de la formacion, è informacion de personas, instrumentos, y cosas necessarias para el buen vso de la guerra.

by: García de Palacio, Diego, fl. 1576-1587

Publication date: 1583

Topics: Military art and sciences, Defensive (Military science), CSAIP, Imprint 1583

Publisher: En Mexico : en casa de Pedro Ocharte

Collection: jcbmexicoincunables; jcbspanishamerica; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Spanish

Signatures: pi A-Z &

First American book on military science, describing firearms, gunpowder manufacture, ballistics, etc

Includes: Argumento y recomendacion, a los dialogos militares desta obra, por Eugenio de Salazar, natural de Madrid, folio 1-6

Woodcut coat of arms on t.p., numerous woodcut ill.. and diagrams in text to illustrate drill and manoeuvring of troops, tactics, strategy, and artillery formations. Ornamental initials; side notes

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Medina, J.T. México

Sabin

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.)

Palau y Dulcet (2 ed.)

John Carter Brown Library copy incomplete, lacking final leaf &8

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: ms. notes on front free end-paper: From the Library of Señor J.F. Ramirez bought at his sale in London July 1880