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See #346 #261 #147 The printer-bookseller Boninus, in reality Dobrisa
Dobrie of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in Damatia, modern
Yugoslovia is a very interesting figurine in early printing.
Having first produced a book at Venice with another
printer of Dalmation origin, Andrea de Paltasichis
Having first produced a book at Venice with another
printer of Dalmation origin,, Andrea de Paltasichis
(Paltasie; from Kotoro) in 1478-79, Boninus later
produced the richly illustrated Latin + Italian editions of
Valturius at Verona in 1483 + in 1487 important illustrated
editions of Dante (the 1st fully illustrated ed.) + Aesop
at Brescia.

HEHL #104504 no rub. Libro Septimo - begins q^3 ends t^6.
De higiorni religiosi de alcurni meficione
in felici ouero infami + dil tempo apto
a guerizare C.I.
my leaf r^4 (of 8) in Ca. IIII [inserted] one other woodcut in book 7 on r^3. total of Ca XVII. [end inserted] (begins r^2 - ends r^5)
- De la forine de (ordinare li lozameti +
de costumi de qlli
total of 12 books - most of the woodcuts appera
in books 10 + 11.

Calturius composed his book "On Military Matters" about
1460. After a wide circulation in MSS it was pritned in
1472. The text of the book is on the whole rather backward
looking + contains no revolutionary military principles -
it is the 1st book printed with illust. of a technical or
scientific character depicting the progressive engineering
ideas of the author's own time - the illust are the first
true Italian book illust. probably after designs by
Matteo de Pasti the medallist + pupil of Alberti.