8vo (190 x 110 mm). Half-title; engraved arms by H. Godin of the dedicated, de Graillet; 14 engraved folding plates. (Lacking leaf C3, pp.29/30.) Contemporary marbled calf gilt

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK on fencing. Demeuse was a fencing master in Liège and a member of the Academie d'armes de Bruxelles. Pardoel 376; Thimm p.76. 

[With:] DEMEUSE. Nouveau traite de l'art des armes. Liège, 1778. Another copy. Engraved arms; 14 engraved plates. Lacking leaf C3 (pp.29/30). Bound in contemporary patterned paper wrappers uncut (some minor losses to spine). FIRST EDITION. -- DEMEUSE. Nouveau traite de l'art des armes. Liège: F. J. Desoer, 1786. 12mo. Half-title; 14 engraved folding plates. Later half morocco. Provenance: Philippe Bourgeois (armorial bookplate, London 1891). Second edition. Pardoel 377; Thimm p.77.