De Re Militari (On the Military Arts); 1472; Printed book with 82 woodcut illustrations impressed by hand; illuminated initials and descriptive captions also added by hand; 13 x 9 7/16 x 1 7/8 in. (33 x 24 x 4.8 cm); Books; Matteo de' Pasti (Italian; Verona ca. 1420-after 1467 Rimini); When this military treatise was completed around 1460; the patron; Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta; distributed a number of manuscript copies to rulers such as Louis XI; Francesco Sforza; and Lorenzo de' Medici