Lot 257
Fencing.- Docciolini (Marco) Trattato in materia di scherma..., rare first edition, Florence, Michelangelo Sermartelli, 1601.
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
Fencing.- Docciolini (Marco) Trattato in materia di scherma...Nel quale si contiene il modo, e regola d'adoperar la spada così sola, come accompagnata, first edition, woodcut arms of dedicatee Giovanni Medici to title, woodcut diagram and initials, foxed, early printed matter used in binding, contemporary limp vellum, little marked and stained, small 4to, Florence, Michelangelo Sermartelli, 1601.
⁂ A rare copy of this treatise by the Florentine fencing master Docciolini. The last copy we can trace at auction was in 1977.
Literature: Thimm p.80; Cockle 253.
Description
Fencing.- Docciolini (Marco) Trattato in materia di scherma...Nel quale si contiene il modo, e regola d'adoperar la spada così sola, come accompagnata, first edition, woodcut arms of dedicatee Giovanni Medici to title, woodcut diagram and initials, foxed, early printed matter used in binding, contemporary limp vellum, little marked and stained, small 4to, Florence, Michelangelo Sermartelli, 1601.
⁂ A rare copy of this treatise by the Florentine fencing master Docciolini. The last copy we can trace at auction was in 1977.
Literature: Thimm p.80; Cockle 253.
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