Horses, Hunting, Sport & Games / Fencing

ANGELO, Henry, Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN and Hamilton LAVERS-SMITH. The reminiscences of Henry Angelo ...
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1904. 4 volumes. Large 8vo (27.5 x 19 cm). The "extra illustrated" edition with 350 illustrations on 345 leaves; many illustrations are printed in colour.. Red cloth, with a gold-blocked image of Robineau's depiction of the celebrated fencing match between the Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Chevalier d'Eon in 1787 on the front board and gold lettering on spine, top edges gilt. XVI, 202; [2], 203-438, [2]; XXVI, 192; [2], 193-447, [1] pp. Full description

ANGELO, Henry and Rev. Charles SWYNNERTON. Angelo's pic nic with twenty-four illustrations from contemporary drawings and prints in the collection of Joseph Grego with a prefatory note on the Angelo family.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd., 1905. 2 vols. Large-8vo. With a frontispiece in vol. 1 and 110 illustrations mounted on separate leaves. Red cloth. XXXVII, [1], 122; [2], 123-267 (=145), [1] pp. Full description

DANET, Guillaume. L'art des armes, ou la maniere la plus certaine de se servir utilement de l'epée, soit pour attaquer, soit pour se défendre, simplifiée & démonstrée dans toute son étendue & sa perfection, suivant les meilleurs principes de théorie & de pratique adoptés actuellement en France;...
Paris, Herissant, fils, 1766-1767. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With a richly designed emblematic frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved armorial headpiece for the dedication, an engraved armorial tailpiece with the French Royal coat of arms, and 45 double-page engraved plates by L.G. Taraval after Taxcilliere, showing the various positions and movements of two gentlemen fencing in the fields. Contemporary half calf. [4], XXXVIII, 241, [9]; [14], 215, [1 blank] pp. Full description

RODRIGUES DE CARVALHO, Theotonio. Tratado completo do jogo de florete, em o qual se estabelecem os principios certos dos exercicios offensivos, e defensivos desta arte; obra necessaria a's pessoas, que se destinão a's armas, e util a'quellas, que se querem aperfeiçoar.
Lisbon, Na impressão Regia, 1804. 4to. 8 folding engraved plates with 17 numbered figures. Later (ca. 1875/95?) gold-tooled green morocco,. 105, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SAINT MARTIN, Jean-Antoine de. L'art de faire des armes réduit a ses vrais principes. contenant tous les principes nécessaires à cet art, qui y sont expliqués d'une manière claire et intelligible....
Vienna, Janne Schrämble, 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the verso of the first leaf, an engraved coat-of-arms of the Archduke of Austria, Charles Louis, to whom the work is dedicated, and 72 engraved plates, of which 1 coloured by a contemporary hand and 2 folding, depicting the various positions in fencing and sword-fighting. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. [8], XII, [2], 92, [6], 57 [1 blank] pp. Full description

SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l'espee Francoise.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".
With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf. 56; [16], 125, [3 blank] pp. Full description

THOMASE, Eudaldo. Tratado de esgrima a pie y a caballo, en que se enseña por principios el menajo del Florete ó juego de la espada. Que se usa en el dia, adornado con diez y seis laminas gravadas en conbre.
Barcelona, Narcisa Dorca, 1823. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers. 71 pp. Full description