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MELZO, Lodovico. Regole militari sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria. Antwerp: Joachim Trognesius, 1611.
2° (302 x 194mm). Engraved title, 5 headpieces, 5 initials, 16 etched plates on 15 leaves (3 double-page, 12 folding). (Repair to one folding plate.) Contemporary vellum gilt, covers with central lozenge-shaped arabesque and single fillet border, flat-backed spine, gilt and gauffered edges (soiled and lightly rubbed), modern cloth box. Provenance: Lieutenant-General C.R.O'Donnell (inscription on title); Tim Munby (presentation inscription, dated 1945, to:); Tosti Wright.
FIRST EDITION of a popular work: reprints appeared in Venice in 1626 and 1641. A Spanish translation was published in 1619, a French-German edition in 1625 and an English edition in 1632. Cockle 723; Lipperheide Qb28.
2° (302 x 194mm). Engraved title, 5 headpieces, 5 initials, 16 etched plates on 15 leaves (3 double-page, 12 folding). (Repair to one folding plate.) Contemporary vellum gilt, covers with central lozenge-shaped arabesque and single fillet border, flat-backed spine, gilt and gauffered edges (soiled and lightly rubbed), modern cloth box. Provenance: Lieutenant-General C.R.O'Donnell (inscription on title); Tim Munby (presentation inscription, dated 1945, to:); Tosti Wright.
FIRST EDITION of a popular work: reprints appeared in Venice in 1626 and 1641. A Spanish translation was published in 1619, a French-German edition in 1625 and an English edition in 1632. Cockle 723; Lipperheide Qb28.