DUELLO, LIBRO DE RE, IMPERATORI, PRINCIPI, SIGNORI, GENTILHOMINI, & de tutti Armigeri, continente Diffide, Concordie, Pace, Casi accadenti, & Judicii con ragione, exempli, & Authoritate de Poeti, Hystoriographi, Philosophi, Legisti, by PUTEO, (Paris de). (Dal Pozzo, Paride).: - 1523

Stampata in Venetia: per Gregorio de Gregoriis, 1523 a di XXIII aprile.. Canonisti, & Ecclesiastici: Opera dignissima, & vtilissima ad tutti gli spiriti gentili. Early edition 1523, Italian text, small 8vo, approximately 140 x 90 mm, 5½ x 32½ inches, 152 unnumbered leaves, collation: A-T8 (-A8 & T 8 - blanks?), colophon on T7v, half page engraving of duel before 5 seated judges on title page, woodcut initials, the first heightened with gold, author's name on B1r, imprint from colophon. Very attractively bound by Paris binder Gruel in gilt panelled red morocco, gilt corner ornaments, raised bands richly gilt in compartments, gilt title, date and name of binder, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt inner dentelles (turn ins), marbled endpapers. Small pale stain to lower cover, corners slightly bumped, tiny closed tear to top inner margin of title page, neatly repaired, neat early signature to lower margin of title page, pale age-browning to signature O. A very good copy of one of the earliest works on duelling, first published in Latin in 1471. Paride dal Pozzo (1410-1493), known as Paris de Puteo, was an Italian jurist. His treatise was first printed in Latin in 1471, then in Italian at Naples by Sixtus Riessinger, not before 1475. Cockle, A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642, page 225, No. 865 (Note); Brunet, Manuel du Libraire, Vol IV, 983 (1518 edition); Thimm, Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling, page 233. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.