Dal Pozzo, Duello, libro de re, imperatori, prencipi, Venice, 1536, contemporary red morocco gilt by Niccolò Franzese
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DAL POZZO, PARIDE. Duello, libro de re, imperatori, prencipi, signori, gentil'huomini, et de tutti armigeri, continente disfide, concordie pace, casi accadenti, et iudicii con ragione, essempli, et authoritate de poeti, historiographi, philosophi, legisti, canonisti, et ecclesiastici. Opera dignissima, et utilissima ad tutti gli spiriti gentili. Venice: Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio, January 1536
A FINE CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BINDING BY NICCOLÒ FRANZESE.
Paride dal Pozzo, or Paris de Puteo (1410-1493), was an Italian jurist who, in his later career, wrote and published a number of legal treatises. This is a later posthumous edition of one of his most famous treatises, which set out to delineate the laws and customs of dueling.
8vo (151 x 96 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 2A4: 188 leaves. Title-page with woodcut border. (Minor worming, marginal dampstaining.)
binding: Roman binding by Niccolò Franzese (155 x 100 mm), 1540s, red morocco, multiple blind fillets around sides, gilt frame composed of 2 pairs of interlaced fillets, fleuron at outer and inner angles, in centre a roundel formed by a single gilt fillet surrounded by flame tools, inside of which “DVEL|ODERE|MILITA|RE”, in roundel on lower cover a rampant lion facing left and holding a flower, traces of 4 pairs of fabric ties, spine with 3 bands, compartments with blind saltine with gilt rosette at centre, title lettered in gold in third compartment “DVE*LLO”, edges gilt. (Minor worming to spine and upper board, old repairs to spine ends, joints starting with lower compartment of spine becoming loose.)
acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Pirages Fine Books. references: USTC 825308; Edit16 CNCE 15884
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