GUARINI, Andrea Origine e fondatione di tutte le religioni, e militie di cauallieri, con le croci, e segni vsati da quelle Vicenza, appresso Dominico Amadio, 1614
4to. 16ff. Woodcut device on title (the Aldine anchor) and 26 illustrations in the text, one full-page, light stain in 3 leaves, in nineteenth century decorated silver boards, later endpapers.
THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION of this brief but scholarly history of the twenty-four oldest and most eminent orders of chivalry including the Knights of St John, the Knights Templar, the Teutonic Knights, the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Golden Fleece. The book is dedicated to Andrea Angelo Flavio Comneno, the Grand Master of the Knights of St George, the oldest order of all (and the first described in the work), founded by the Emperor Constantine’s father in 305. A second edition appeared in Venice in 1666.BL STC I, p.600; RLIN locates the copy at Duke University; not in OCLC
£900
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