Hergsell, Gustav.

Die Fechtkunst im XV. und XVI. [15 und 16] Jahrhunderte. Mit 48 Lichtdrucktafeln und 48 Textillustrationen en Facsimile.

Prag, Selbstverlag. Printed for the Author by Carl Bellmann; Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ~ TEMPORARY GRAND REDUCTION SALE: UP TO 60% OFF THE REGULAR PRICE ON THE ENTIRE STOCK ~. Thick crown quarto. Pp. (viii), 631. Plus 48 fine collotype plates, almost all with multiple images to each, with facing tissue guards. With 48 woodcut illustrations to text. Half-title present. HARDCOVER, bound in full cloth, with the original printed wrapper, slightly soiled, laid-down. In fine condition. Excellent copy in exceptional state of preservation. ~ FIRST EDITION. Comprehensive reference work on early fencing treatises. Beautifully illustrated. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Hergsell has published this outstanding work himself. It was later adopted by the publishing house of Karl W. Hiersemann, of Leipzig, who added their stamp to title-page. ~ Provenance: from the Rainer Köbelin Historisches Fechtarchiv, München, with a small, elegant bookplate to that effect. I-3 .

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Book number: 4897

Catalogue: Armour and Weapons

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KAHN, Anton Friedrich.

Anfangsgründe der Fechtkunst nebst einer Vorrede in welcher eine kurze Geschichte der Fechtkunst vorgetragen...wird. Neue und vermehrte Ausgabe.

1761 With full-page engraved portrait of the author (mounted), ornamental initials and 25 fold- out engravings of fencing positions. (3) ff., 52, 164, 36 pp. 4to. Modern half blue calf with title on spine, uncut. Helmstedt, Christian Friedrich Weygand, 1761. The first edition of this fencing manual appeared in 1739 (164 pp.). This is the new and enlarged second edition of a famous work by the Göttingen fencing master A. Fr. Kahn (1713- 1797). "Son traité en effet fit époque pendant longtemps servit de loi" (Gelli). Kahn was one of the most prominent instructors of the time and is important in the history of academic fencing. The illustrations of fencing positions which show excellent examples of the costumes of the period. The book contains a bibliography, pp. 16-17.- Some waterstains, large margined and uncut, nice copy. - VD18 10570160; Thimm 153; Lipperheide Td 45; Gelli 262. SPORTS: FENCING ;

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