EditorialFour Preliminary Designs for the Venetiones Series: Recto, above: Fishing for Tuna; Recto, below: Hunting crocodile with a Pig as Bait; Verso, above: Indians catching fish with the help of pelicans; Verso, below: Boar hunt with Shotguns;, Jan van der S...
EditorialRecto: Minerva, or 'Arma' (Allegory of the Art of War), preliminary design for pl. 2 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series; Verso, above: Deer Hunt with Lassos; Below: Board Hunt with Shotguns, Jan van der Straet, called Str...
EditorialOther wonderful machine, Warfare in the Middle Ages, weapons, throwing machine, various cannon shotguns with fire ignition, woodcut, p. 362, (Liber decimus), 1483, Roberto Valturio: [De re militari]. Verona: [Boninus de Boninis], [1483].