Oblong 4to (185 x 255 mm). Engraved arms of the Duke of Urbino on verso of title-page; engraved portrait; 43 engraved plates by Rafael Schiamirossi. Contemporary limp vellum (soiling). Provenance: Early inscription on pastedown; Jacopo Gelli (1858-1935), Italian military fencer and historian (bookplate). 

FIRST EDITION of Capoferro's fencing manual treating the use of the single rapier and the rapier in conjunction with the cloak, dagger, and rotella shield. "Though Capo Ferro's treatise is often praised by modern fencing historians, it was neither comprehensive nor particularly innovative and does not seem to have been terribly influential in its own time" (Wiktenauer). THE JACOPO GELLI COPY with his bookplate. Cockle 757; Pardoel 151; Thimm pp.44-45.