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GERDIL (Hyacinthe-Sigismond). Traité des combats singuliers, dedicated to the King [of Sardinia]. Turin, Imprimerie royale, sd (1759). In-8, XXXX-372 pp, [2] ff, engraved portrait of Charles-Emmanuel III in medallion at top of dedication. Marbled fawn basane, ornate smooth spine, arms on boards, title page, red tr. Arms a little worn on first board. First edition of this text, officially commissioned by the King of Sardinia, who had asked for a clear and practical treatise against the use of judicial duels, which often deprived the House of Savoy of its best elements. Copies bear the arms of Ercole Gian Antonio TURINETTI DE PRIÉ [Priero] (1717-1781) in the center of the plates. A friend of the arts and sciences, and a correspondent of Diderot, Voltaire and Casanova, he was also an introducer in the pious Kingdom of Sardinia of the prohibited literature of the century, particularly that which promoted new ideas.

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GERDIL (Hyacinthe-Sigismond). Traité des combats singuliers, dedicated to the King [of Sardinia]. Turin, Imprimerie royale, sd (1759). In-8, XXXX-372 pp, [2] ff, engraved portrait of Charles-Emmanuel III in medallion at top of dedication. Marbled fawn basane, ornate smooth spine, arms on boards, title page, red tr. Arms a little worn on first board. First edition of this text, officially commissioned by the King of Sardinia, who had asked for a clear and practical treatise against the use of judicial duels, which often deprived the House of Savoy of its best elements. Copies bear the arms of Ercole Gian Antonio TURINETTI DE PRIÉ [Priero] (1717-1781) in the center of the plates. A friend of the arts and sciences, and a correspondent of Diderot, Voltaire and Casanova, he was also an introducer in the pious Kingdom of Sardinia of the prohibited literature of the century, particularly that which promoted new ideas.

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