BASTA, Giorgio.

Govierno de la cavalleria ligera . . . Traducido del lenguaje Toscano en Español por Pedro Pardo Ribadeneyra, entretenido por su Magestad en los Estados de Flandes, y dirigido al excelentissimo Señor Don Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares, y Duque de San Lucar la Mayor.

      Madrid, Francisco Martinez, 1641. Second edition: this translation was first published in Brussels in 1624. A treatise on the management and use of light cavalry originally published in Italian (Venice, 1612). Basta, who commanded the Holy Roman Emperor’s troops during the Long War of 1591–1606, wrote a number of military manuals. This, one of his best known works, was posthumously published following his death in 1607.Palau 25366. 8vo (210 x 145 mm), pp. [xxiv], 142, [18]; contemporary speckled calf; spine gilt in compartments; extremities a little rubbed; a very good copy.