B-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-b, source entry 214. Retitled from long descriptive title. Duplicate work 3467 consolidated here in quality phase 98e (2026-08-14).
Rennes, 1658, chez Julien Herbert. Very rare and especially sought after in Italy. Gelli highlights its early fleuret terminology and its practical/theoretical contribution to French fencing.
Vigeant 1882, pp. 37-38: Rennes, chez Julien Herbert, imprimeur et libraire, rue St-Germain, à l'Image S. Ivlien, 1653. With royal privilege, frontispiece designed by Montaillier and engraved by Baugin, and 4 copperplates outside the text, the last showing a pistol duel. Transferred from duplicate work 3467 in quality phase 98e (2026-08-14).
Quality phase 101k: production/publication place recovered from an explicit, manifestation-matching statement after individual review.
Quality phase 101m: explicit imprint agent linked after final individual review.
Le maistre d'armes libéral, traittantdelathéoriedel'artetexercicedel'espéeseule, ou fleuret, etdetoutcequis'ypeut faire et pratiquer de plussubtil, avecles principales figures et postures en taille douce; contenant enoutre plusieurs moralitez surce sujet. DediéàNosseigneurs desEstats de la province et duché de Bretagne1891
Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.
Pages 83 · Entry CAS-P083-E002
Gelli entry GEL-P346-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 346 · Entry GEL-P346-E001
Thimm entry 237
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 37 · Entry 237
Vigeant entry VIG-P037-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 37-38 · Entry VIG-P037-E001
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Primary editionLe maistre d'armes libéral, traittantdelathéoriedel'artetexercicedel'espéeseule, ou fleuret, etdetoutcequis'ypeut faire et pratiquer de plussubtil, avecles principales figures et postures en taille douce; contenant enoutre plusieurs moralitez surce sujet. DediéàNosseigneurs desEstats de la province et duché de Bretagne
