Leçons d'Armes par...
CORDELOIS (1862)
£350.00
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Du Duel et de l'Assaut. Tall 8vo. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and twenty-eight other plates. Light scattered foxing, as often, but overall very good in contemporary green skiver-backed boards, rubbed at the extremities but sound. 240pp. Chez l'Auteur... et a la Salle d'Armes de la Maison Dorée, Chez M. Pelleng, Paris,
Thimm p.66; Gelli p.330-1, "Le traité de Cordelois, mâitre d'armes des plus renommés de Paris, est très apprécié surtout à cause de ses théories sur lattaque."
Signed by Cordelois both on the authentication verso of the title page, but also verso of the frontispiece. Excellently lively & lifelike plates engraved by Prof. Brown of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
Stock Code: 89554