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Sansovino, Francesco
Of the origin of the caualieri of m. Francesco Sansouino books four. In which is contained, the intuition, the order, & the declaration of all the fates of the knights., 1570
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€ 200 - 300
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Venice, heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, 1570. In the 8th. Brand of the cat with mouse in its mouth within a figured frame, vignette-figured headers and drop caps, with full-page woodcuts in the text depicting the "Collana della Gartiera - Collana di Savoia - Collana del Tosone - Collana di San Michele", woodcut portrait in fine volume by Sansovino, marginal stains of humidity, contemporary binding in limp parchment with traces of ties, tears and missing parts. Handwritten ownership note on the title page by Ferrante del Monte.
Specialist Notes
Second valuable edition of this detailed treatise on the Knights, the princeps is from 1566.
The work "contains the invention, the order, & the declaration of all the fates of the Knights. With the statutes & laws of the Gartiera, of the Tosone di San Michele, & of the Nuntiata. Again reprinted with new council". Detailed survey of the history, ceremonies and statutes of the Orders of Chivalry, to which is added the description of the islands of Malta and Elba.
Choix de Olschki,V,5272; Adams, II, p. 180; British Library, p. 608; Graesse,VI,267.
The work "contains the invention, the order, & the declaration of all the fates of the Knights. With the statutes & laws of the Gartiera, of the Tosone di San Michele, & of the Nuntiata. Again reprinted with new council". Detailed survey of the history, ceremonies and statutes of the Orders of Chivalry, to which is added the description of the islands of Malta and Elba.
Choix de Olschki,V,5272; Adams, II, p. 180; British Library, p. 608; Graesse,VI,267.
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