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Tratado de esgrima: comprende la esgrima del florete y tres guardias de sable de infantería

Treatise 1854 Spanish Spain

José Cucala y Bruño

Spanish fencing treatise by Don Jose Cucala y Bruno, printed at Madrid in 1854. Earlier local import state had conflated this book with the distinct 1861 Havana treatise on bayonet fencing by the same author; the public record now separates the two works.

Also aligned with the Biblioteca do Desporto / IPDJ catalogue witness used in the later duplicate record, which confirmed the Madrid 1854 imprint and fuller physical description for the same work.

Vigeant 1882 confirms the 1854 Madrid edition with 24 plates and notes the mixture of foil, infantry sabre guards, and cavalry material.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleTratado de esgrima: comprende la esgrima del florete y tres guardias de sable de infantería
AuthorJosé Cucala y Bruño
Earliest publication date1854
LanguageSpanish
CountrySpain
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Don José Cucala y Bruno
Fencing FoilSabre
Authority Roles
Author
José Cucala y Bruño
Edition History
Tratado de esgrima 1854
CityMadrid
PublisherNot specified
PrinterJ. Peña
Format4°
Pages[6], 413, [6] p.
Dimensions23 cm
Madrid, 1854, Imprenta de Julian Pena. Thimm gives 24 plates and the longer subtitle about foil and three guards of infantry sabre. Later catalogue witnesses describe the volume at about 413 pages with 24 leaves of plates.

Gelli / Biblioteca do Desporto witness also describes the same Madrid 1854 edition as [6], 413, [6] p., 23 cm, illustrated, with about 24 plates judged poorly executed.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 47-48: Madrid, Imprenta de Julian Pena, 1854. In-8vo with 24 plates outside the text.

Quality phases 197–220: the imprint statement explicitly identifies a printing establishment; role changed from publisher to printer.

Quality phase 287: The exact Madrid 1854 references agree on 24 out-of-text plates; the inherited abbreviation “il.” is replaced with a useful visual-content description.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm — A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling — bibliographic witness for edition 2238
Catalogue PDF OCR
Carl A. Thimm / Mori BZ · open
Bibliographic witness linked in quality phase 512. It supports catalogue provenance and does not imply that the linked file is a facsimile of this edition. Source selection score 710; bibliography reference #2265.
Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P241-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 241-242 · Entry GEL-P241-E002
Thimm entry 551
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 84 · Entry 551
Vigeant entry VIG-P047-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 47-48 · Entry VIG-P047-E002