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Parisian lawyer, royal counsellor, historian and heraldic writer best known for Le Théâtre d’honneur et de chevalerie, a large study of military orders, arms, blazon, duels, jousts and tournaments.
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German fencing instructor Andreas August Fehn, formerly attached to the Royal Hanover Cadet Institution and later university fencing master at Heidelberg. His manual covered thrust, cut, sabre, backsword and bayonet fencing.
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British-naturalized writer and barrister, born on Saint Barthélemy, whose wide-ranging historical and social works included The Romance of Duelling and The Gaming Table.
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Belgian-born fencing master who served at the United States Naval Academy from 1865 for nearly five decades and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He authored naval manuals on broadsword and small-sword exercise.
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Italian author active at Messina, documented by a three-book chivalric treatise of 1629 and a 1637 discourse on the 1636 foot tournament of the Cavalieri della Stella.
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Italian Jesuit, papal diplomat, controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer from Mantua. Antonio Possevino also participated in the publication history of works on honour and duelling associated with his brother Giovanni Battista.
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Scottish fencing master, gymnast, educator and proprietor of the Oxford Gymnasium. His system of physical education and military gymnastics helped shape organised physical training in the British Army.
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Austrian fencing master and author of two distinct German-language works: Grundzüge einer Anleitung zum Säbelfechten (Pest, 1859) and Schlüssel zur Kunst des Rapier- und Säbelfechtens à la contrepointe (Linz, 1861).
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Bolognese senator, diplomat and writer on chivalric honour, author of La spada di honore (1671). The later Scettro pacifico forms the second part of his observations and appeared posthumously.
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French fencing master associated with L’escrime appliquée à l’art militaire (1801) and later named as president of the Société d’armes de Paris in an 1827 rules publication.
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Seventeenth-century Ferrarese jurist, knight and military theorist. His illustrated Oplomachia treated the pike, halberd and musket, while Il Torneo documented tournament organisation, weapon drills and early printed military music.
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Corporate military authority responsible for the official rifle, carbine and bayonet-training manuals represented in this catalogue.
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