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Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello. Libro de Re, Imperatori, Prencipi … Historiographi, Philosophi, Legisti, Canonisti & Ecclesiasitici …. Andrea Alciati.

Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling

Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello. Libro de Re, Imperatori, Prencipi...

Venice: Baldassar di Costantini; [Comin de Tridino de Monferrato], 1544; 1540. First Italian edition of Alciati; later (?7th) Italian edition of Puteo. Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling. Two early works on duelling bound together. The Alciati was first published in Latin as De Singulari Certamine (1543) and appears here... Read More

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The School of Fencing, With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art …. Domenico Angelo.

First Edition with English Text of the Greatest English Fencing Manual

The School of Fencing, With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art ….

London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765. Second edition, first edition with English text. First Edition with English Text of the Greatest English Fencing Manual. The second edition, and the first edition with English text, of the “chief work in the English literature of fencing” (Castle, p. 212). Angelo’s venerable School... Read More

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The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by those renowned monarchs, King Henry VIII. James, and Charles I. As by their several gracious Commissions here recited may appear. With a brief account of the Manner of the Archers marching on several days of Solemnity. Archery, William Wood.

The Glory of the English Bow

The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by...

London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It... Read More

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Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting contayned in II bookes. And now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen, and Yomen of England for theyr use to folowe both in Warre and Peace … To which is added A Dedication and Preface by the Reverend John Walters. Roger Ascham.

Joseph Haslewood’s Copy

Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting contayned in II bookes. And now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen, and...

Wrexham: Reprinted by R. Marsh, 1788. Fourth edition. Joseph Haslewood’s Copy. “Not only is this the most renowned work on the subject of archery in English, or for that matter in any language, but its publication marked the beginning of the decline of the prejudice in favour of Latin as... Read More

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Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to Major James Pond. Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus

Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to Major James Pond.

Victoria Hotel, Southport: July 2d/'82. Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum writes to his lecture manager, Major James Pond, declining an invitation to lecture in England and revealing his gross receipts from his Barnum & Bailey’s show. Reading in part, “Thanks for your offer for... Read More

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A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill. M. L. Biscotti.

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A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill.

Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Unique Copy for the Publisher. A continuation of John Phillips's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by author and--most happily--an alphabetical index by TITLES (which Phillips did not... Read More

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A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill. M. L. Biscotti.

Deluxe Copy, One of 75, An Indispensable Work

A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill.

Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, Deluxe edition, 55 of 75 copies, signed by author and artist. Deluxe Copy, One of 75, An Indispensable Work. A continuation of John Phillips's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by author... Read More

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