ANCIENT SIGNALS

Requeno y Vives, Vicente: Principj progressi perfezione perdita e ristabilimento dell'antica arte di parlare da lungi in guerra cavata da' Greci e da' Romani scrittori e accomodata a' presenti bisogni della nostra milizia dall'abate Requeno, Accad. Clem. Torino: presso G. M. Briolo stamp. e lib. delle R.R. Acc. delle scienze e Societa' agraria, 1790.

First edition of this illustrated work on classical signalling, and its value for present military needs. Vicente Requeno y Vives (1743-1811) was an ex-Jesuit born in Zaragoza who became a scholar of classical art, coinage and music. 

A copy with the three plates called for in the Italian SBN catalogue, sometimes the book is catalogued as having four (cf. entries on OCLC). This may be an error resulting from the fact that the third plate has two illustrations, labelled Tav. III and Tav. IV.

Description

One volume (20.8 cms. x 12.9 cms. in binding), octavo, pp. [10], v-xxiv, 189 [3] + 3 plates. First and last leaves blank. Light browning, bound in contemporary marbled sheep, blind decorative roll to borders of covers, spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration to each compartment, one compartment with red goatskin label stamped in gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red.

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