BONDÌ DI MAZO
La spada maestra... Libro dove si trattano i vantaggi della nobilissima professione della scherma si del caminare, girare, & ritirarsi, engraved frontispiece, woodcut ornament on title, 79 full-page engraved illustrations (of 80, lacks no. 76), plate 2 overdrawn in pencil and strengthened with paper pasted on verso resulting in minor loss, plate 52 loose, plate 75 with 2 small holes and with printed correction slip pasted on verso, plate 78 re-inserted on new stub, some dampstaining throughout, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt tooled in compartments, rubbed [Gelli 37; Thimm, p.34; Vigeant, p.40], oblong 8vo (160 x 205mm.), Venice, Domenico Lovisa, 1696
Footnotes:
Rare seventeenth century Italian fencing manual written by a Venetian, about whom little is known, but is sometimes thought to have been a Jew as Hebrew text is used on the frontispiece.
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