Traicte contenant les secrets dv premier livre svr l'espee sevle : mere de toutes armes, qui sont espée dague, cappe, targue, bouclier, rondelle, l'espée deux mains & les deux espées, auec ses pourtraictures, ayans les armes au poing pour se deffendre & offencer à vn mesme temps des coups qu'on peut tirer, tant en assillant qu'en deffendant, fort vtile & profitable pour adextrer la noblesse, & suposts de Mars: redigé par art, ordre & pratique / Composé par Henry de Sainct Didier ... Paris, Imprimé par I. Mettayer & M. Challenge, & se vend chez I. Dalier, 1573.
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| Language: | French |
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[Paris] :
[Société du livre d'art ancien et moderne],
[1907]
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Gift of Charles and Ruth Schmitter. |
| Physical Description: | 2-88 numbered leaves, 21 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 2 portrait ; 29 x 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | The two portraits (of Charles IX and the author) are given both as illustrations (verso of leaves 17 and [18]) and as plates. The title is also reproduced in facsimile on the cover with the 1907 imprint added and with the dates 1573-1907 at head. The original "has been shown to be a précis and adaptation of two Italian treatises-to wit, the 'Trattato di scienza d'arme', of Camillo Agrippa, and Grassi's 'Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme', published in Venice in 1568 and 1570 respectively."-C.A. Thimm, A complete bibliography of fencing and duelling ... 1896. cf. also J. Gelli. Bibliografia generale della scherma ... 1890. |
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| Call Number: | U860 .S2 1907 XX folio |