PORATH (CONRAD DIDRIK VON)
Palaestra Svecana eller den Adeliga Fächtare-Konsten, FIRST EDITION, engraved pictorial additional title-page by Erik Reitz, letterpress dedication leaf to Crown Prince Charles XII, 24 engraved illustrations in the text (5 of which pasted over the original engraving), woodcut ornaments, some toning, later blue satin over boards, g.e., worn with loss to spine), preserved in cloth solander box [Thimm, p.228], folio (325 x 205mm.), Stockholm, David Kämpe, [1693]
Footnotes:
Rare. The first book on fencing printed in Sweden. Von Porath was appointed fencing-master at the Swedish Court in 1677, teaching both King Charles XI and his son Charles XII. The text is largely based on a fencing manual by the Italian fencing master Salvator Fabri.
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