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There are less than 200 lots in the final 4th part of 121 auctions. BUT - one of the world's best collections of books on fencing with incunabula. The rarities of Russian first printing. A gift from the first President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal. Beautiful autographs of Mira Abramovna Beilina and her second husband I. Zbarsky, including from I. Brodsky, Tvardovsky, Kassil, Okudzhava. It is possible to deliver part of the lots outside the Russian Federation.
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LOT 19:
J. de St. Martin. L'art de faire des armes réduit a ses vrais principes.
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J. de St. Martin. L'art de faire des armes réduit a ses vrais principes.
Vienna. Janne Scramble. 1804 XII, 91, 57 p., fig., including 2 folding. Leather binding, triple gold sawn-off, owner's cardboard case, size 19 x 22.5 cm. Scuffs of the binding, small age-related contamination, a small tear of the spine.
First edition. Sotheby's auction estimated its copy at 400 - 500, leaving 1200 pounds.
J. de Saint Martin, a disciple of the great Danet, in the last years of the XVIII century kept a famous aristocratic school in Vienna, where in the first quarter of the XIX century he taught fencing in the form in which it was accepted by the old French academy.
