Pistofilo (bonaventura) Oplomachia, First Edition, Siena, Hercole And Agamennonne Gori, 1621 - Jun 22, 2022 | Bonhams In England
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PISTOFILO (BONAVENTURA) Oplomachia, FIRST EDITION, Siena, Hercole and Agamennonne Gori, 1621

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PISTOFILO (BONAVENTURA) Oplomachia, FIRST EDITION, Siena, Hercole and Agamennonne Gori, 1621
PISTOFILO (BONAVENTURA) Oplomachia, FIRST EDITION, Siena, Hercole and Agamennonne Gori, 1621
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PISTOFILO (BONAVENTURA)
Oplomachia, FIRST EDITION, etched pictorial title, full-page engraved portraits of the author and the dedicatee Sir Kenelm Digby, one full-page engraved diagram and 53 full-page engraved illustrations within typographic borders, title remargined on lower and right edges, a few leaves with neat marginal repairs or few spots, a couple with small manuscript annotations, eighteenth century vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine, light soiling [Cockle 742; Lipperheide Qb34; Thimm, p.226], oblong 8vo (138 x 192mm.), Siena, Hercole and Agamennonne Gori, 1621
Footnotes:
First edition of Pistofilo's well-illustrated instruction manual on the use of the pike, halbert and musket. This copy contains the inserted leaf bearing figures 88 and 89 bound in after Q3.

Provenance: Georgio [-], early cropped signature on title; Filippo Taccoli, 1726, inscription on front free endpaper, scored through; Maurizio Oliva, inscriptions on title and front free endpaper.
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PISTOFILO (BONAVENTURA) Oplomachia, FIRST EDITION, Siena, Hercole and Agamennonne Gori, 1621

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