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GAIANI, Giovanni Battista. Arte di maneggiar la espada a piedi et a cavallo. Loano: Francesco Castello, 1619.
4° (207 x 149mm). Woodcut device at beginning and end. Red morocco gilt by V. Krafft, inner gilt dentelle, g.e.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT LOANO, a small town on the Ligurian coast and the FIRST EDITION of Gaiani's treatise on swordmanship. Gelli pp.103-04; Vigeant p.62.
4° (207 x 149mm). Woodcut device at beginning and end. Red morocco gilt by V. Krafft, inner gilt dentelle, g.e.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT LOANO, a small town on the Ligurian coast and the FIRST EDITION of Gaiani's treatise on swordmanship. Gelli pp.103-04; Vigeant p.62.