Live auction - Lot 331
[Fencing]
Théorie de l'escrime à cheval. Atlas.
Paris, Anselin, 1828]
Hammer price: €
100
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to: 44 pl. (title and pl. 43 missing; occ. foxing).
Contemp. half black sheep, marbled paper covers, gilt-ruled and titled flat spine, blue spr. edges (leather rubbed).
Atlas only accompanying the 2nd edition of Müller's work (1st 1816), containing 44 plates (incl. 16bis) representing various postures. The atlas had received a new title for this edition, "L’art de combattre à cheval contre toute espèce d’arme blanche, représenté par 54 figures [...]" (missing here).