[SCHERMA] - KAHN, Anthon Friedrich (1713-1797 ) - Anfangsgrunde der Fechtkunst nebst einer Vorrede von dem Nutzen der Fechtkunst und den Vorzugen dieser Anweisung. Göttingen: Johann Christop Ludolph Schultzen, 1739.   First edition of this fundamental fencing treatise by Khan "the principal authority on the subject on University fence schools" (Thimm). The author was a fencing master at the Georgius Augustus University of Göttingen and was the first to coin the term Kreusslerische Schule, considering Wilhelm Kreussler as the founder of sword fighting. Thimm p.153.   4to (222 x 172mm). Gothic characters, woodcut headpieces, 25 engraved numbered plates each containing three battle scenes by J.J. Kauffmann, C.F Fritzsch after mainly by L.E. Cuerland (lacking frontispiece portrait and a blank, light browning, a few occasional stains). Contemporary speckled calf with gilt spine, decorated endpapers (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Emile Vialis (bookplate) - clipping from bookseller's catalogue. For other books relating to fencing please see lots 29 and 30.

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