Trattato di scientia d'arme
Subtitle: con vn dialogo di filosofia
By: di Camillo Aggrippa milanese ...
Publisher: Per Antonio Blado ...
Published: 1553
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Subjects: Fencing; Early works to 1800; Swordplay
Notes: The Dialogo (Q4r-S2r) was reprinted by Blado's heirs in 1575 as Modo da comporre il moto nella sfera; see Mortimer.

Port. of author on pi1r, with t.p. on the verso. A full-page engraving on the conjugate pi2v, depicting Agrippa showing scholars a sphere of his invention, discussed in the Dialogo; see Mortimer.

The unsigned engravings have been attributed to Marc'Antonio Raimondi or Jan van der Straet; see Mortimer. Decorated and historiated woodcut initials.

Signatures: pip2s (enclosing *p2s) A-Sp4s.

Errata, S3v.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent., 6

Getty copy lacks final blank.

Binding: later vellum. Author and abbreviated title in gilt on spine. The edges sprinkled red.

Library's copy has Leo S. Olschki bookplate on front pastedown. Round stamp in margin of 2nd leaf recto, now effaced.