Military speeches and orations, 2 volumes, Venice 1558 & 1560

MILITARY SPEECHES AND ORATIONS

Two volumes in Italian, comprising:

i. Girardi, Antonio, editor. Discorso intorno alle cose della guerra, con una oratione della pace [by Cardinal Pole]. [Venice]: Accademia Veneziana, 1558, 4to (206 x 148mm.), engraved device on title-page, with blank leaf A4, later half vellum, inscription of E[dward] P. Jacobsen dated 1890, light staining

ii. Nannini, Remigio. Orationi militari, raccolte... da tutti gli historici greci e latini, antichi e moderni. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, 1560, 4to (211 x 148mm.), woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, later specked calf, binding worn, upper cover detached

For other works from the Royal Society, see lot 385 in the same style of binding.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 17285 & 26308

PROVENANCE:

2nd work: Henry Howard (later Duke of Norfolk), presented by him in 1667 to the Royal Society of London, ink stamp on verso of title-page and various shelfmarks on inside front cover (many books were sold at Sotheby's, 4 May 1925, this volume not listed in the catalogue)