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Cix, [11], 48, [4] leaves. [A-2G4; A-N4]. With occasional woodcuts and diagrams. [bound with, as issued] Cataneo, Girolamo. Most briefe tables to knowe redily howe manye ranckes of footemen armed with corslettes as vnarmed go to the making of a iust battayle ... Imprinted at London : By W. Williamson, for Iohn VVight, anno 1574. [34] leaves, with final leaf a blank. (A6, B-D4, E2, F-H4, I2). Together, 2 works in 1. (4to) 7¾x6, old limp vellum. Second Edition in English of the Machiavelli.

Machiavelli on the military arts - the second part of the first work is titled "Certaine wayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles ... gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne." It has a separate title-page and foliation. There is much in that second part on gunpowder, fortifications, etc. Lacking the first four (unfoliated) leaves, being signature "a"; text begins with "The Proheme of Nicholas Machiauel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence..." Also lacking the large folding plate. STC 17165.