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FENCING and MILITARY. -- GELLI, Jacopo. Bibliografia generale della Scherma. Bibliographie ginirale de l'Escrime. Avec notes critiques, biographiques et historiques. Milan, 1895. Large 8o (253 x 160 mm). Frontispieces, illustrations. -- [Bound with:] GELLI. Catalogue de la collection d'ouvrages sur l'Escrime de Mr. le Comm. Jacopo Gelli. Rome, 1912. 8o (242 x 160 mm). Illustrations, prices marked in MS throughout. 2 works in one volume. Contemporary half roan, original wrappers to second work bound in (worn). Provenance: J.J. Davis (1889-1967, penciled note at front).
Though containing only half the entries of Thimm's bibliography, it is more detailed, especially on the large Italian literature, and has remained indispensable. Gelli himself owned a very fine collection on fencing which he sold in 1912, well catalogued by Rossi. From the library of J.J. Davis, owner of the London firm of Davis & Orioli
[With:]
Carl A. THIMM. A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling as practiced by all European nations from the middle ages to the present day. With a classified index, in chronological order, according to languages. London and New York, 1896. 8o (240 x 170 mm). Title in red and black, half-title. Frontispiece portrait of the author by P. Wilson Steer printed in sepia, 30 plates, 2 illustrations. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (spine faded, joints slightly split).
The second edition, handsomely produced and printed on laid paper, of the most extensive bibliography of the subject; published one year after Gelli's second edition, it has 4,000 entries (Besterman's estimate). -- 3 others. (5)
Though containing only half the entries of Thimm's bibliography, it is more detailed, especially on the large Italian literature, and has remained indispensable. Gelli himself owned a very fine collection on fencing which he sold in 1912, well catalogued by Rossi. From the library of J.J. Davis, owner of the London firm of Davis & Orioli
[With:]
Carl A. THIMM. A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling as practiced by all European nations from the middle ages to the present day. With a classified index, in chronological order, according to languages. London and New York, 1896. 8
The second edition, handsomely produced and printed on laid paper, of the most extensive bibliography of the subject; published one year after Gelli's second edition, it has 4,000 entries (Besterman's estimate). -- 3 others. (5)