GIGANTI (NICOLETTO)
Scola, overo teatro, nelquale sono rappresentate diverse maniere, e modi di parare, e di ferire di spada sola, e di spada, e pugnale, woodcut ornament on title, numerous head-pieces, full-page etched author's portrait and 42 etched plates showing various fencing techniques, foxing to fore-edge margin of opening leaves, occasional single spot but generally clean, modern purple calf antique gilt [Thimm, p.116; Vigeant, p.62], oblong 4to (170 x 240mm.), Padua, Paolo Frambotto, 1628
Footnotes:
Second edition of an influential treatise on the use of the rapier and the dagger by the Venetian fencing master Nicoletto Giganti, depicted in a fine portrait within a framework of arms and armour.
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