Historical Spanish Fencing Treatises

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Méndez de Carmona, Luis
A Don Rodriguez Portocarrero Fernandez de Cordoba: quan estimado sea la destreza y exercicio de las armas en casa conocida de todas las politicas naciones...
16--?
Méndez de Carmona, Luis
Compendio en defensa de la doctrina y destreza del comendador Gerónimo de Carranza
1632
'Mendez de Carmona, a carrancista, describes carrancistas using a less strict angulo recto, different footwork, allowing the fencer to bend the knees, and applying common tretas for rapier and dagger as la Enarcada, la Encadenada or la Empanada.' Alberto Bomprezzi. "Ofrece interés esta obra, una de las pocas que contradicen los principios de Pacheco, decidiéndose el autor á imprimirla «por haber conocido los yerros de los Maestros que pretendían explicar la doctrina de Carranza.»" Leguina, p. 83. Pacheco (1635) was written in response to this work.
Méndez de Carmona, Luis
Avisos importantes para el diestro de la Esgrima/ por Luis Mendez de Carmona; publicados ahora por vez primera por Pedro Vindel (1899)
1639 ca.
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Méndez de Carmona, Luis
Avisos importantes para el diestro de la Esgrima/ por Luis Mendez de Carmona; publicados ahora por vez primera por Pedro Vindel (1899)
1639 ca.
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Méndez de Carmona, Luis
Libro de la destreza verdadera de las armas
1640
Title adjusted and date taken from Leguina, p. 83.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Principios de los cincos sujetos principales de que se compone la Philosophia y Matematica de las Armas, Practica y especulativa.
1672
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas, en treinta y ocho asserciones --- PEREZ DE MENDOZA Y QUIXADA, (Miguel) --- resumidas, y advertidas con demonstraciones practicas, deducido de las dos obras principales que tiene escritas su autor. --- 4to (195 x 132mm.) ff.[21], 73, title and beginning of dedication printed in red and black, engraved frontispice portrait, and large folding plate (mapa) at f.69 with inset portait of author, geometrical figures, fencing positions etc., modern half calf over marbled boards, frontispice mounted, small tear in large plate strengthened --- Madrid: F. Sanz, 1675 --- The author Perez de Mendoza The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption :'En el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra todas naciones', and pasted at the foot of the plate (and covering whatever there is) a long (6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is given in full (second state). The engraving of the arms of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674. --- Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA (Harvard (with plate on yellow satin), plus Yale, Kansas and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no copy in Germany or Austria,and it is not in the BL. --- Date:1675 --- http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11422.asp
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-4773. Has note: 'Ejemp. falto de h. de grab. pleg. -- Enc. perg., deteriorada'. This is a better copy, though the writing on the very bottom of the t.p. is obscured
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas, en treinta y ocho asserciones --- PEREZ DE MENDOZA Y QUIXADA, (Miguel) --- resumidas, y advertidas con demonstraciones practicas, deducido de las dos obras principales que tiene escritas su autor. --- 4to (195 x 132mm.) ff.[21], 73, title and beginning of dedication printed in red and black, engraved frontispice portrait, and large folding plate (mapa) at f.69 with inset portait of author, geometrical figures, fencing positions etc., modern half calf over marbled boards, frontispice mounted, small tear in large plate strengthened --- Madrid: F. Sanz, 1675 --- The author Perez de Mendoza The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption :'En el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra todas naciones', and pasted at the foot of the plate (and covering whatever there is) a long (6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is given in full (second state). The engraving of the arms of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674. --- Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA (Harvard (with plate on yellow satin), plus Yale, Kansas and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no copy in Germany or Austria,and it is not in the BL. --- Date:1675 --- http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11422.asp
"Ex Libris Academiae Valentinae..." Posted to Algunos Libros Online.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas, en treinta y ocho asserciones --- PEREZ DE MENDOZA Y QUIXADA, (Miguel) --- resumidas, y advertidas con demonstraciones practicas, deducido de las dos obras principales que tiene escritas su autor. --- 4to (195 x 132mm.) ff.[21], 73, title and beginning of dedication printed in red and black, engraved frontispice portrait, and large folding plate (mapa) at f.69 with inset portait of author, geometrical figures, fencing positions etc., modern half calf over marbled boards, frontispice mounted, small tear in large plate strengthened --- Madrid: F. Sanz, 1675 --- The author Perez de Mendoza The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption :'En el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra todas naciones', and pasted at the foot of the plate (and covering whatever there is) a long (6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is given in full (second state). The engraving of the arms of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674. --- Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA (Harvard (with plate on yellow satin), plus Yale, Kansas and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no copy in Germany or Austria,and it is not in the BL. --- Date:1675 --- http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11422.asp
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-713. Has note: 'Ejemp. falto de port. y de h. de grab. pleg. -- Datos tomados de Palau, 221467. -- Enc. perg.' Missing t.p. Half the writing on the bottom of the frontispiece is obscured.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas, en treinta y ocho asserciones --- PEREZ DE MENDOZA Y QUIXADA, (Miguel) --- resumidas, y advertidas con demonstraciones practicas, deducido de las dos obras principales que tiene escritas su autor. --- 4to (195 x 132mm.) ff.[21], 73, title and beginning of dedication printed in red and black, engraved frontispice portrait, and large folding plate (mapa) at f.69 with inset portait of author, geometrical figures, fencing positions etc., modern half calf over marbled boards, frontispice mounted, small tear in large plate strengthened --- Madrid: F. Sanz, 1675 --- The author Perez de Mendoza The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption :'En el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra todas naciones', and pasted at the foot of the plate (and covering whatever there is) a long (6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is given in full (second state). The engraving of the arms of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674. --- Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA (Harvard (with plate on yellow satin), plus Yale, Kansas and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no copy in Germany or Austria,and it is not in the BL. --- Date:1675 --- http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11422.asp
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-4774. Has note: 'Enc. perg., deteriorada'. The title page includes all of the bottom of the page.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
'... Perez de Mendoza describes in 1675 the 30 tretas and Cruzado ... in 1702 does the same again in more detail.' Alberto Bomprezzi; 'Perez de Mendoza and Ettenhard hated each other and could not avoid showing it in their books.' Alberto Bomprezzi, http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=53658. The frontispiece includes labelled drawings of a mangual (a long-handled, three-headed flail), a montante, rodela, broquel, cup-hilted swords and parrying daggers. Of interest: José Luis Barrio Moya. 'La biblioteca de Don Miguel Pérez de Mendoza, Maestro de Armas riojano del Rey Carlos II (1679)'. MILITARIA, Revista de Cultura Militar. 2001, número 15, 119-137.
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-4773. Has note: 'Ejemp. falto de h. de grab. pleg. -- Enc. perg., deteriorada'. This is a better copy, though the writing on the very bottom of the t.p. is obscured
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
'... Perez de Mendoza describes in 1675 the 30 tretas and Cruzado ... in 1702 does the same again in more detail.' Alberto Bomprezzi; 'Perez de Mendoza and Ettenhard hated each other and could not avoid showing it in their books.' Alberto Bomprezzi, http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=53658. The frontispiece includes labelled drawings of a mangual (a long-handled, three-headed flail), a montante, rodela, broquel, cup-hilted swords and parrying daggers. Of interest: José Luis Barrio Moya. 'La biblioteca de Don Miguel Pérez de Mendoza, Maestro de Armas riojano del Rey Carlos II (1679)'. MILITARIA, Revista de Cultura Militar. 2001, número 15, 119-137.
"Ex Libris Academiae Valentinae..." Posted to Algunos Libros Online.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
'... Perez de Mendoza describes in 1675 the 30 tretas and Cruzado ... in 1702 does the same again in more detail.' Alberto Bomprezzi; 'Perez de Mendoza and Ettenhard hated each other and could not avoid showing it in their books.' Alberto Bomprezzi, http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=53658. The frontispiece includes labelled drawings of a mangual (a long-handled, three-headed flail), a montante, rodela, broquel, cup-hilted swords and parrying daggers. Of interest: José Luis Barrio Moya. 'La biblioteca de Don Miguel Pérez de Mendoza, Maestro de Armas riojano del Rey Carlos II (1679)'. MILITARIA, Revista de Cultura Militar. 2001, número 15, 119-137.
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-713. Has note: 'Ejemp. falto de port. y de h. de grab. pleg. -- Datos tomados de Palau, 221467. -- Enc. perg.' Missing t.p. Half the writing on the bottom of the frontispiece is obscured.
Pérez de Mendoza y Quijada, Miguel
Resumen de la verdadera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho asserciones : resumidas y advertidas con demonstraciones Practicas : deducido de las obras principales que tiene escritas su Autor...
1675
'... Perez de Mendoza describes in 1675 the 30 tretas and Cruzado ... in 1702 does the same again in more detail.' Alberto Bomprezzi; 'Perez de Mendoza and Ettenhard hated each other and could not avoid showing it in their books.' Alberto Bomprezzi, http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=53658. The frontispiece includes labelled drawings of a mangual (a long-handled, three-headed flail), a montante, rodela, broquel, cup-hilted swords and parrying daggers. Of interest: José Luis Barrio Moya. 'La biblioteca de Don Miguel Pérez de Mendoza, Maestro de Armas riojano del Rey Carlos II (1679)'. MILITARIA, Revista de Cultura Militar. 2001, número 15, 119-137.
Perform an author search for Perez de Mendoza and click on R-4774. Has note: 'Enc. perg., deteriorada'. The title page includes all of the bottom of the page.
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Carta en 1684
1684
citado en Tamariz [CB: p. 33]
Arrieta Arandia y Morentín, Juan Antonio de
Resumen de la verdadera destreza, y modo facil para saber los caminos verdaderos en la batalla, reducidos a christianos y reales movimientos
1688
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Respuesta philosophica y mathematica en la qual se satisface a los argumentos y proporciones que a los profesores de la verdadera destreza y Philosophia de las armas se han propuesto por un papel expedido esin nombre de autor
1695
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Respuesta philosophica y mathematica en la qual se satisface a los argumentos y proporciones que a los profesores de la verdadera destreza y Philosophia de las armas se han propuesto por un papel expedido esin nombre de autor
1695
Universitat de Valencia
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Respuesta philosophica y mathematica en la qual se satisface a los argumentos y proporciones que a los profesores de la verdadera destreza y Philosophia de las armas se han propuesto por un papel expedido esin nombre de autor
1695
Google Books
Cruzado y Peralta, Manuel
Las tretas de la vulgar y comun esgrima de espada sola y con armas dobles, que reprobo Don Luis Pacheco de Narvaez, y las oposiciones que dispuso en verdadera destreza contra ellas
1702
'hay libros como el de Cruzado de Peralta en 1701, que trata exclusivamente de las tretas de la comun y vulgar destreza y de su oposicion por el sistema de Narvaez' (http://www.esgrimaantigua.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113); '... Perez de Mendoza describes in 1675 the 30 tretas and Cruzado ... in 1702 does the same again in more detail.' Alberto Bomprezzi
reducelas a compendio, añadiendo algunas notas y advertencias muy essenciales...Manuel Cruzado y Peralta
Google Books
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain; a rdfs:Resource. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro primero de la ciencia del instrumento armigero espada
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain; a rdfs:Resource. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Book 3; Google Books
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain; a rdfs:Resource. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Books 1-3. Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain; a rdfs:Resource. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro segundo : Arte del instrumento armigero espada
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain; a rdfs:Resource. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro tercero : Experiencia del instrumento armigero espada. This is missing some pages: fig. 45; pp. 599-600. Supply from Google Books copy.
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro primero de la ciencia del instrumento armigero espada
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Book 3; Google Books
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Books 1-3. Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro segundo : Arte del instrumento armigero espada
Lorenz de Rada, Francisco, Marqués de la Torres de Rada
Nobleza de la espada, cuyo esplendor se expressa en tres libros, segun ciencia, arte y esperiencia...
1705
From a note on http://www.aemma.org/vmp/books/treatise.htm Title: Nobleza De La Espada Author: Lorenz de Rada, 1705 This original first edition of one of the most elaborate and extensively illustrated Spanish works on the science, art and practice of fencing. The fine engraved plates demonstrate fencing on geometrical principles, providing detailed diagrams of sword positions and arm and leg movements. The work is scarce, the NUC entry describing a microfilmed copy at Brown University (imperfect) and citing only three locations, presumably for complete copies of the original: Harvard, Library of Congress and Boston Public. Lorenz De Rada is described on the title as a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Chancellor-Major and Perpetual Inspector of the Kingdoms of New Spain. Lorenz de Rada, Fancisco, Marques de los Torres de Rada [d.1713]. Nobleza De La Espada, Cuyo Esplendor Se Expressa En Tres Libros, Seguin Ciencia, Arte, Y Experiencia... 3 Volumes in 2 [title varies]. folio pp. 14, p.l., 204; 6 p.l., 330 [4]; 4 p.;., 622. Titles in red & black within typographical borders. 2 engraved titles & 98 engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments & initials. Contemporary limp vellum (lower margin of 1 engraved title repaired, some minor marginal dampstaining & worming, overeall a very attractive copy). Madrid: Joseph Rodriguez Escobar [Vol III: Diego Martinez Abad], 1705 Price: $6,200.00 USD (not including shipping & handling)
por el maestro de campo Francisco Lorenz de Rada
Libro tercero : Experiencia del instrumento armigero espada. This is missing some pages: fig. 45; pp. 599-600. Supply from Google Books copy.
Ceron Mancha y Giron, Martin
Fiel dispertador y mayor amigo de la verdad, a instancia de la malicia, confundiendo su exaltacion en las dudas que padece en la destreza y filosofia de las armas: siguiendo las doctrinas que entabló a la comun utilidad don Luis Pacheco de Narvaez, el Fenix entre los españoles
1708
Osorio y Vega, Manuel Alvarez
Manejo real, en que se propone lo que deben saber los cavalleros en esta facultad
1769
Brea, Manuel Antonio de
Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin segun la doctrina mixta de francesa, italiana y española, dispuestos para instruccion de los caballeros seminaristas del real seminario de nobles de esta corte
1805
'... la verdadera Destreza es una ciencia que consta de unos principios universales, y que esta no tiene patria, ni está limitada á este ó el otro pais, sino á todo el que tenga gusto y aplicación ...' [Introduction, p. 2]
Google Books. Bitonal scan.
Brea, Manuel Antonio de
Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin segun la doctrina mixta de francesa, italiana y española, dispuestos para instruccion de los caballeros seminaristas del real seminario de nobles de esta corte
1805
'... la verdadera Destreza es una ciencia que consta de unos principios universales, y que esta no tiene patria, ni está limitada á este ó el otro pais, sino á todo el que tenga gusto y aplicación ...' [Introduction, p. 2]
No persistent link; search the catalog. Biblioteca Universitaria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Colección Digital Politécnica. Greyscale scan.
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infantería en la verdadera destreza del fusil o carabina armados de bayoneta : dedicada al Ejército Español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infantería y otra contra caballería
1861
'La lanza es el arma que más terror infunde por su longitud á los profanos en los conocimientos de la esgrima, pero manejada con una mano, es en su punta la más débil de todas y la mas embarazosa y desproporcionada para ofender y defenderse.' p. 81, para. 200. This isn't a work of La Verdadera Destreza
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Tratado completo de la esgrima del sable español
1862
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1863 2ª edicion
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1864 3ª edicion
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1865 5ª edicion
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1867 6ª edicion
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1875
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Manual de esgrima, recopilacion de las tretas más principales que constituyen la verdadera esgrima del sable español y del florete
1878
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Merelo y Casademunt, Jaime
Elementos de esgrima para instruir al soldado de infanteria en la verdadera destreza del fusil ó carabina armados de bayoneta. Obra destinada al ejercito español y dispuesta en tres divisiones, dos para infanteria y otra contra caballeria
1878 9º edicion
Merelo y Fornés, Alfredo
Manual de esgrima de sable y lanza para toda el arma de caballer a y sable de infanteria
1880
On p. 12 he mentions tacto as being one necessary requirement in fencing. La Verdadera Destreza terminology begins on p. 14. On p. 17 he adds the 'Uñas afuera irregular, es cuando desde uñas arriba volvemos la mano más hácia la derecha.'
No persistent link; search the catalog. Biblioteca Universitaria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Colección Digital Politécnica.
Dueñas, Gregorio María
Ensayo de un tratado de Esgrima de florete
1881
Figures 17a and 18a on the penultimate plate are nice complements to the discussion in Brea (1805), pp. 15-16, and the accompanying late, L.7, but Dueñas labels his diagrams directly.
No persistent link; search the catalog. Biblioteca Universitaria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Colección Digital Politécnica.
Dueñas, Gregorio María
Ensayo de un tratado de Esgrima de florete
1881
Figures 17a and 18a on the penultimate plate are nice complements to the discussion in Brea (1805), pp. 15-16, and the accompanying late, L.7, but Dueñas labels his diagrams directly.
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. The scan is not as good as the one from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Colección Digital Politécnica.
Heredia y Heredia, (Marqués) Narcisco de
Verdades en pocas palabras
1892
Dueñas, Gregorio María
Esgrima de sable
1895
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.