Oblong 4to (156 x 202 mm). Engraved portrait, 61 engraved plates. (Dampstaining, one quire browned.) Contemporary vellum hand-lettered on spine (soiled). Provenance: Baron Jois Caroli De Fraipont (signature on title-page 1731). 

Second edition of "l'Ange's illustrated treatise on the use of the single rapier. L'Ange, a 17th-century German fencing master, likely studied in the tradition of Salvator Fabris, and was master to the University of Heidelberg and the Electoral Palatinate court at Castle Heidelberg. RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 50 years. Pardoel 418; Thimm p.9.