MILITARY - TUSCANY
Capitoli, ordini, e privilegi delle milizie toscane pedestri, e equestri. Stabiliti, e concessi dal serenissimo Ferdinando II, Gran Duca di Toscana, woodcut device on title, extensive ink annotations in an early Italian hand in the margins, short paper tear repaired to lower fore-corner of title, paperflaw to pp.31/32 touching a couple of letters, a few light stains, later patterned paper wrappers [not in World Cat/Edit 16], 8vo, Florence, Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta, 1663
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A rare edition of a rule book for the militia in Tuscany under Grand Duke Ferdinando II, with a distinguished provenance. We have found no other copies of this work cited in the standard bibliographies.

Provenance: Paolo Borghese, bookplate ('Ex libris M. A. Principis Burghesii'). For this copy see Catalogue des livres composant la Bibliothèque de S. E. Don Paolo Borghese (1892), no. 378 ('Exemplaire rempli des notes mss. du temps dans les marges'); private UK collector.
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