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

by KAHN, Anton Friedrich

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Helmstedt, Christian Friedrich Weygand, 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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Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat CH (CH)
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Title
Anfangsgründe der Fechtkunst nebst einer Vorrede in welcher eine kurze Geschichte der Fechtkunst vorgetragen...wird. Neue und vermehrte Ausgabe.
Author
KAHN, Anton Friedrich
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
Helmstedt, Christian Friedrich Weygand
Date Published
1761
Keywords
SPORTS: FENCING ;

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