Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 126

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS. De l'Arte Militare. Italian translation by Tizzone Gaetano. Title within woodcut historiated border. [8], 87, [1] leaves, including blanks *8 and L8. Small 8vo, 146x98 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink; contents dampstained with occasional soiling and underscoring, rear endpapers wormed. Later 18th-/early 20th-century owners' inscriptions on front endpapers and title. Venice: (Comin de Tridino de Monferrato, August), 1540

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Third edition of the 1524 Italian translation by Tizzone Gaetano of a later 4th-century A.D. Roman military manual first published circa 1473-74.