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Lot 27
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$567
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Lot Description
OLIVIER, J. (fl. ca 1770). Fencing Familiarized: or a New Treatise on the Art of Sword Play. | L'Art des Armes Simplifié. London and York: Jean Bell, C. Etherington, [1771]
8vo (201 x 125 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece; 8 engraved plates (7 folding); text in English and French throughout. Contemporary calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. (armorial bookplate); Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), American writer (bookplate engraved by Avrit after Henry Brokman, sold his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1910, Lot 202); sold Walpole Galleries, 5-6 June 1924, Lot 488.
FIRST EDITION of Olivier's work. "This work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details" (Thimms p.211). Pardoel 449.