The Cottesloe Military Library

The Cottesloe Military Library

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Pozzo, Duello, Venice, 1521; Tre libri della disciplina militare, Venice, 1550, 2 volumes

Auction Closed

November 19, 05:30 PM GMT

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

Lot Details

Description

POZZO, PARIDE DAL AND RAYMOND DE FOURQUEVAUX


Two volumes in Italian, comprising:


i. Pozzo, Paride dal. Duello, libro de re, imperatori, principi, signore, gentil'homini... (Venice): [Melchiorre Sessa and Pietro Ravani], (12 May 1521), 8vo (149 x 90mm.), woodcut on title-page, woodcut initials, with final blank, crushed brown morocco by Petit, gilt edges

ii. Fourquevaux, Raymond de Beccarie de Pavie. Tre libri della disciplina militare tradotti nella lingua italiana [by Mambrino Roseo]. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1550, 8vo, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams, woodcut device on final verso, contemporary limp vellum, gilt edges, occasional light staining

together 2 volumes

For another copy of Fourquevaux in Italian, see lot 260.


LITERATURE:

Edit16 15880 & 19602


PROVENANCE:

2nd work: purchased in 1933