Lot 3
MUZIO, Girolamo. Il Duello del Mutio Justinopolitano. --Le Riposte Cavalleresche del Mutio Justinopolitano. Venice, 1554. Fourth edition.
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MUZIO, Girolamo (1496-1576). Il Duello del Mutio Justinopolitano. --Le Riposte Cavalleresche del Mutio Justinopolitano. Venice: Gabriel Giolito et fratelli, 1554.
2 parts in one volume, 8vo (162 x 103 mm). Separate title-pages for each part, continually signed and paginated; woodcut devices on title and verso of final leaf of each part, woodcut initials. (Some repairs to blank margin of title-page, soiling.) Later limp vellum hand-lettered on spine (some soiling). Provenance: A few early annotations.
Fourth edition of Muzio's study on the means of settling disputes without the intervention of the sword. Cockle 879 note ("very rare"); Pardoel 2116; Thimm p.201.
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