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Kahn, Anton Friedrich.

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

Helmstedt, Christian Friedrich Weygand, 1761

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Schumann Antiquariat

(Zurich, Switzerland)

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Year of publication
1761
Author
Kahn, Anton Friedrich.
Publishers
Helmstedt, Christian Friedrich Weygand
Keyword
SPORTS: FENCING,

Description

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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