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Lot 144

MELZO (LODOVICO)
Regole militari sopra il governo e servitio particolare della cavalleria, FIRST EDITION, Antwerp, G. Trognaesio, 1611

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MELZO (LODOVICO)

Regole militari sopra il governo e servitio particolare della cavalleria, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, 16 engraved plates on 15 double-page or folding sheets, additional title shaved at fore-edge and with small repair in lower margin, light waterstain towards end, eighteenth century tree calf, spine faded [Lipperheide 2066; Huth p.16], 4to, Antwerp, G. Trognaesio, 1611

Footnotes

Melzo's treatise on the conduct and service of cavalry, this copy from the military library of lieutenant-general George Lane Parker.

Provenance: George Lane Parker (1724-1791), armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Macclesfield, bookplate, blindstamp on titles; their sale, Sotheby's, 30 October 2007, lot 3652 (sold for £3,000).

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