AGRIPPA (CAMILLO)Trattato di scienza d'arme, et un dialogo in detta materia, engraved title-page with portrait of the author, numerous engraved illustrations throughout (some double-page), woodcut initials and ornaments, without final blank, a few very small holes to title-page, 2 double-page plates shaved just within platemark of one margin, small loss (filled) to fore-edge margin of final 16 leaves just touching printed border of an illustration on 3 pages, recased in early limp vellum [Cockle 745; Thimm, p.4; Vigeant, p.25], 4to, Venice, Roberto Meglietti, 1604FootnotesThird edition of an influential manual on fencing, first published in 1563 at Rome, by Camillo Agrippa (1520-1595), a Milanese engineer, architect, and mathematician. The fine illustrations of the Trattato show various positions in fencing (the fencers usually represented naked), and are usually attributed to Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), but sometimes to Michelangelo. Provenance: Capt. Torquato Poccianti, early ink ownership name at foot of title-page, dedication leaf and final page, with small ink stamp on title (touching printed area) and dedication leaf.
AGRIPPA (CAMILLO)Trattato di scienza d'arme, et un dialogo in detta materia, engraved title-page with portrait of the author, numerous engraved illustrations throughout (some double-page), woodcut initials and ornaments, without final blank, a few very small holes to title-page, 2 double-page plates shaved just within platemark of one margin, small loss (filled) to fore-edge margin of final 16 leaves just touching printed border of an illustration on 3 pages, recased in early limp vellum [Cockle 745; Thimm, p.4; Vigeant, p.25], 4to, Venice, Roberto Meglietti, 1604FootnotesThird edition of an influential manual on fencing, first published in 1563 at Rome, by Camillo Agrippa (1520-1595), a Milanese engineer, architect, and mathematician. The fine illustrations of the Trattato show various positions in fencing (the fencers usually represented naked), and are usually attributed to Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), but sometimes to Michelangelo. Provenance: Capt. Torquato Poccianti, early ink ownership name at foot of title-page, dedication leaf and final page, with small ink stamp on title (touching printed area) and dedication leaf.
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