London auction call to arms

Showing some internal staining, browning and other soiling, this 1517 Lyon printing of one of the works of GB Castiglione, a humanist and sometime tutor to the future Elizabeth I, sports a contemporary English binding of blind-stamped calf.

It bears the arms of Henry VIII and his first queen, Katherine of Aragon, on both covers.

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