Small folio (297 x 200 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece; 14 engraved plates by Giacomo Mitelli. Contemporary decorative paper-covered boards (tiny chip to upper corner of front board). Provenance:  Jacopo Gelli (1858-1935), Italian military fencer and historian (bookplate); unidentified armorial bookplate on verso of final leaf. 

FIRST EDITION OF SENESE'S RARE TREATISE on the use of the single rapier in the Bolognese fashion. Little is known about Senese's life; he was apparently born in Bologna and was apparently trained in the tradition of Filippo di Bartholomeo Dardi. His treatise is dedicated to Charles Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria. JACOPO GELLI'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. Pardoel 311 (only calling for 8 plates); Thimm p.265.