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Susio, Giovanni Battista: The three books of Sir Giovan Battista Susio. On the injustice of duels, and of those who permit them... In Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1558
Format in-4°, mm. 205x150, pp. 198, (2). Complete. Back binding in full old parchment with handwritten titles on the lower edge and on the spine. Sporadic foxing and signs of aging.
Anti-dueling treatise by the Italian physician and humanist Giovanni Battista Susio (1519-1583). Cinquecentina printed in Venice in 1558 (the first 1555) for Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. Large woodcut typographic device on the title page and colophon. Italian text, roman italics. Woodcut headpieces and initials.
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