MUZIO (Girolamo) Le Combat de Mutio Iustinopolitain, with the responses of the knights, newly translated from Italian into French by Antoine Chapuis Dauphinois. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1561, in-4, 458 pp, including the title in a beautiful engraved frame, [7] ff. n. ch. of tables, signed a-z, aa-zz, AA-NN all in 4, morocco tobacco, spine ribbed with fillets and double cold-cased, double cold-cased double fillet frame with interior corner finials on the covers, large cold-cased finial in the centre of the covers, double gilt fillets on the cups, gilt edges on marbling, large interior lace (19th c. binding). First edition of the French version of the Grenoble lawyer Antoine Chapuis or Chappuys. The work brings together in a single volume two of the early texts of the Paduan humanist Girolamo Muzio (1476-1576): Il Duello; and Le Risposte cavalleresche, both published in 1550, but which had been merged into a single volume from the Venice edition, 1554. Both are treatises on duelling, its codes and customs, dealing with its origin, causes, technique, typology of offences and reparations, etc. Beautiful copy bound in morocco in the 19th century