These are picked up from here and
there.
The Numbers in () are general prices.
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1250 Torelli, Pomponio - Trattato De Debito ... (Italy)(1250)
1467 Talhoffer. Fechtbuch (Primarily illustrations, missing 5 plates)(270.)
1516 Paurnfeindt - Eingrundung der ritterlicher Kunst der Fechtered (1st German text)
1536 Marozzo, Achille - Opera nova (Mutinae)
1547 Henry II France forbade dueling after courtier Chastaigneraie is killed
1553/1568 Agrippa, Camillo - Trattato di Scientia
d'Arme (Rome)(4400/2420)
Classic early work, introduced reduction of # of guards and advocated
sole use of point
1568 Marozzo, Achille - Arte dell'armi (Venice) (2090)
One of the best known writers of the old school of fencing, where bravado
and blustering werer as important an element as skill.
1569 Di Garranza - De La Filexofia de las Armas (Lisbon) (Math&Circle)
1570 Meyer - Kunst der Fechtens (German)
1570 Grassi - Ragioni di Adoperar Sicuramente l'Arme (lunge & thrusts over cuts)
1572 Agocchie, Giovanni - Dell'arte di scrimia (Venice) (440)
1573 St. Didier, Henry de - Traicte... sur l'Espee Seule (Paris) (1st French text)
1575 Viggiani, Angelo Lo Schermo (Vinitia) - Trattato dello Schermo (lunge & secret movements Botta Secretta)(Venice)(2090)
1580 Lovino, G. A. - Traite d'Escrime (Mostly illustrations, transcribed Ms. text in Italian)
1591 Loque, Bertrand de - Discourses of Warre and
Single Combat (London)
(On moral and philosophical aspects of these activities, not how to)
1594 Grassi, Giacomo di - His True Arte of Defence (London)
1595 Saviolo, Vincentio - His Practise, in Two Books (London)
1599 Silver, Georger - Paradoxes of Defence (London)
1606 Fabris, Salvator - Sienza e Practica d'Arme (Copenhaven) (thrust over cut)
1608 Beraudiere, Marc - Le combat de seul a seul en camp clos (Paris)(302)
1610 Ferro, Ridolfo Capo - Gran Simulacro dell'Arte Edell'uso della Scherma (Siena) (universal parry)
16xx Button invented (about size of a golf ball)
1617 Swetnam, Joseph - The Schoole of Defence (London)
1619 Koppen, Joach. - Newer diskurs...Kunst des Fechtens (Magdeburg)
1619 Giganti, Nicoletto - Escrime nouvelle ou . . . diverses manieres de parer et de fraper d'espee (Frankfurt) (Parallel text in German and French)
1633 Baldo, Camillo - Delle Mentite (Venice)(247)
1639 Pallas Armata, G.A. - the Gentlemans Armorie (London)
1640 Alfieri, Francesco - La scherma (Padua)(2200)
1653 Besnard - fleuret first used
1670 Bacon, Sir Francis - The Charge .. Touching Duells (London)(100)
1677 Fabris, Salvatore - Scienza e pratica d'arme (Leipzig)(1320)
1686 Marcelli, F.A. - Regole della Scherma (Rome)
1686 Guillet de Saint-George - Les Arts de l'homme d'epe'e (The Hague)(99)
1692 Liancour, Le Sieur de - Le Maitre D'Armes ou L'Exercice de L'Epee Seule (Amsterdam) (Well illustrated)
1696 Mazo, Bondi di - La Spada Maestra (Venice)
1696 Tamariz, Nicolas - Cartilla, y Luz en la Verdadera Destreza (Saville) (No illustrations)
1702 Blackwell, Henry l - The English Fencing-Master (London)(412)
1704 Capodivaca, Paolo - Massime ... nella scherma (Padua)(110)
1711 Bellincini, Giovanni - Giunte all'opera ... (Modena)(99)
1711 Wylde, Z. - The English Master of Defence: or, The gentleman's al-a-mode accomplishment. (York) Containing the true art of single-rapier or small-sword ... And all the guards at broad-sword and quarter-staff, perfectly...
1714 Calarone, Costantino - Scienza ... della spada (Rome)(467)
1734 Monsieur L'Abbat - The Art of Fencing, or, the Use of the Small Sword (Dublin) (all major movements)
1737/40 Girard, P.J.F. - Traite des Armes (The Hague)(3520/3520) One of the great fencing classics
1746/66/88 Guillaume Danet - L'Art des armes (Paris)(99/220/132)
1747 Godfrey, John - Treatise Useful Science of Defence Small and Back-Sword (London)(192)
1763 Domenico Angelo - L'ecole des Armes (London)
(1st Modern text used in Diderot)(4840)
Prints from above - 15 (770) - 23 hand colored (825)
1766 De Danet (president of french fencing academy) - new names to the parries. Also, mask came into use.
1771 Olivier, J. - Fencing Familiarized (London)(247/467)
1771 Lonnergan, A. - The Fencer's Guide (London)
1775/87 Diderot & d'Alembert - Encyclopedie methodique fencing plates (Paris/Padua)(302/247)
1778 Demeuse, Nicolas - Nouveau traite de l'art des armes (Liege)(99)
1780/84 McArthur, J. - New and Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fencing (London)(1320/1045/385/66)
1787 Angelo, Domenico/Rowlandson - L'ecole des Armes (London) (275&550)
1794 - 13th of July - French revolution - Rousseau (last president of academy & Kings fencing master) was guillotined Rousseau who was effectively last president of Paris academy and King's fencing master and whose first names were Augustin Louis Bernard Joseph, was guillotined.
1798 Roworth, C. - The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre Uniting the Scotch and Austrian Methods into one Regular System, added Remarks on the Spadroon (London)(247/55)
1797 Godfrey, John - A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence (London)
1802 Hewes, Robert - Rules & Regs for the Sword Exercise of the Cavalry (Boston)(192)
1804 Taylor, John - The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre: adapted also to the Spadroon, or Cut-and-Thrust Sword (London)
1805 Mathewson, Thomas - Fencing Familiarized; or, A New Treatise on the Art of the Scotch Broad Sword (n.p.)
1805 Gordon, Anthony - Treatise Science of Defence for the Sword, Bayonet ... (London)(2860)
1805 Antonio de Brea - Principios ... del espadin (Madrid)(302)
1812 Craig, Robert - Rules and Regs for the Sword Exercis of the Cavalry (Baltimore)(192)
1816 Muller, Alexandre - Theorie sur l'escrime a cheval (Paris)(192)
1817 Angelo, Henry - A Treatise on the Utility and
Advantages of Fencing (London)(1870)
Plates from Domenico text and 6 add'l Rowlandson plates
1818 La Boessiere - Traite de l'Art des Armes (Paris)(275)
1819 Cecina, Pablo - Armas contra la espada y broquel (Madrid)(143)
1819 Angelo, Henry - Regs and Instructions for the Infantry Sword Exercise (London)(55)
1823 Roland, George - A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing (Edinburgh)(132)
1824 Potter, P. - The Infantry Exercise of the US Army (Poughkeepsie)(120)
1824 Roworth, C. - The Art of Defence on Foot (NY)(77)
1830 Ghersi, Le Capitaine - Traite sur l'Art de Faire des Armes (London)
1830 Angelo, Henry - Reminiscences (London)(99&412)
1834 Angelo, Henry - Angelo's Pic Nic (London)(132)
1835 Angelo, Henry - Instructions for the Sword Exercise (London)(192)
1837 Roland, George - An Introductory Course of Fencing (London)(66)
1839 Chappon - Theoretisch praktische Anleitung zur Fechtkunst (1st Hungary)
1840 Roux, W. - Anweisung zum Hiebfechten (Jena)
1842 Bartolomeo Bertolini - Trattato di scherma relativo alla spada (Trieste)(275)
1845 Gomard (A.J.J.Possellier) - La Theorie de l'Escrime (Paris) (77)
1847 Gomard (A.J.J.Possellier) - L'Escrime a la Baionnette ou Ecole du Fantassin (Paris)(66)
1849 Wayne, Henrey C. - Exercise for the Broad Sword, Sabre, Cut & Thrust, and Stick. (Washington)
1850 Wayne, Henry C. - The Sword exercise Arranged for Military Instruction (Washington)(143)
1852 Exercises in Small-Arms and Field Artillery (Philadelphia)(66)
1852 Joinville le Pont founded
1853 Burton, Richard Sir - A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (London)
1854 Cucala, Jose - Tratado de esgrima (Madrid)(247/121)
1855 Radaelli - Instruzione per la Scherma di Spada e di Sciabola (Italy) (outlined basics of sabre fencing)
1860 Guillaume, Marey-Monge - Memoir on Swords (London)(80)
1861 Chapman, George - Foil Practice; With a Review of the Art of Fencing (London)
1861 M.W. Berriman, M.W., - The Militiaman's Manual and Sword-Play (NY)(120)
1861 Stephens, Thomas - A New System of Broad and Small Sword Exercise (Milwaukee)(99)
1862 Bazancourt, Cesar - Les Secrets de l'epee (Paris)(66)
1862 McClellan, G.B., - Manual of Bayonet Exercise (Philadelphia)
1862 Kelton, J.C. - A New Manual of the Bayonet (New York)
1863 Walsh, J.H. - Archery, Fencing, and Broadsword (London)
1866 U. of Michigan - Athletic Sports for Boys (fun and interesting)
1868 Chapitre, F. - Escrime a la baionnette (Brussels)(55)
1869 Corbesier, Antoine J. - Squad Instruction for the Broadsword (Phila.)
1872 O'Rourke, Matthew J. - A New System of Sword Exercise (NY)(55)
1874 Senac - The art of Fencing (NY) (one of the 1st in US)
1876 Rondelle, Louis - Foil and Sabre (NY)(260) First set of AFLA rules.
1876 Burton, Sir Richard - A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (London)
1878 Bryson, Frederick - The sixteenth-century Italian duel; a study in renaissance social history (Chicago)
The University of Chicago press [1938] xxviii, 248 p. 24 cm.
1880 Waite, J.M. - Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword Feats; or, How to use a cut-and -thrust sword (London) Weldon & Co.
1881 Beaumont, Edouard - L'Epee et les Femmes (Paris)(165)
1882 Vigeant, Arsene - La bibliographie de l'excrime (Paris)(154)
1883/86 Merignac, Emile - Histoire de l'escrime (Paris)(165)
1884 Vigeant, Arsene - Duels de Maitres d'Armes (Paris)(55)
1884 Burton, Sir Richard - The Book of the Sword (London)(715)
1886 Prevost, Camille - Theorie pratique de l'escrime (Paris)(120)
1886 Feldmann, Josef - ... Rapier-, Saebel- und Bayonnett-Fechten (Vienna)(220)
1887 Robert, Georges - La science des armes (Paris)(55)
1888 Castle, Egerton - L'Escrime et les ... siecle (Paris)(192/143)
1888 Daressy, Henri - Archives des maitres d'armes (Paris)(132)
1889 Vigeant, Arsene - L'Almanach de l'escrime (Paris)(220)
1889 Pollock, Walter - fencing (London)(132)
1889 Hutton, Alfred - Cold Steel (London)(110/121)
1889 Dunn, H. A. Colmore - Fencing (London)
1890 Jacopo Gelli - Bibliografia generale della scherma (Florence)(495)
1891 Hutton, Alfred - The Swordsman (London)(143/132/55)
1892 Hutton, Alfred - Old Sword-Play (London)(302/330)
1885/92 Egerton Castle - Schools and Masters of Fence (London)(330/247)
1895 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred - The True Story of the Chevalier d'Eon (London)(220)
1895 Roux, Ludwig Caesar - L'Escrime dans les Universities allemandes (Paris)(165)
1896 Thimm, Carl A. - A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling (London) Reprint. B. Blom 1968. A prime reference listing for serious researchers and scholars, somewhat useful for enthusiasts and practitioners. Very often cited as a major source by other works.
1898 Barbasetti - L'Escrime a Travers des Sciecles la Scherma per la Sciabola (Italy)
1900 Goudourville, Henry de - Les Salles d'armes d'aujourd'hui (Paris)(55)
1900 Bibesco, Le Prince Georges - Conseils pour les duels a l'epee, au fleuret, au sabre et au pistolet (Paris)(66)
1900 Bazancourt, Baron de - Secrets of the Sword (London)
1901 Hutton, Alfred - Sword and the Centuries (London)(165)
Barnes & Noble reprint 1996. This old book does provide some interesting
accounts of duels and fighting which have served as references for many
later texts.
1902 Amateur Fencing Association formed
1903 Boulenger, Marcel - Quarante escrimeurs (Paris)(100)
1904 Pini - Scherma di Spada (Italy 1st important book of the century)
1907 Sainct-Didier, Henri de - Traicte contenant les secrets du premier livre sul l'epee seule (Paris)(99/77)
1907 U. S. Army - Provisional Regulations for Sabre Exercise (Washington)
1911 Burton, Sir Richard - The Sentiment of the Sword (London)
1912 Greco - La Spada e la sua Disciplina d'arte (Italy)
1915 Senac, Regis/Louis - The Art of Fencing (NY American Sports) The first book on foil fencing published in the US. Very interesting from a historic viewpoint.
1917 Lee, Sidney - Fencing and Duelling in Shakespeare's England Vol. 2. (Oxford)
1918 Dubois, Georges - Essai sur le traite d'escrime de Saint-Didier (Paris)(220)
1927 Bertrand - Cut and Thrust (London)
1933 Castello, Julio Martinez - The Theory and Practice of Fencing (NY, London, Charles Scribner's Sons) A book on foil, epee, and sabre fencing written by one of America's first and foremost fencing masters.
1942 Tomanoczy-Geller - A vivds kezikonyve (Germany)
1943 Nadi, Aldo - On Fencing (NY G.P. Putnams's Sons) (100) This is probably the number one book on modern sport fencing and one of the very few of value to historical sword enthusiasts and practitioners. This is perhaps the best-written book on standard foil fencing. It is comprehensive, relating to technique and bouting strategy, and offers the reader a view of fencing through the eyes of one of the world's greatest fencing professional. A truly fascinating work of fencing literature and a must for anyone interest in fencing.
1944 Gerentser, L. Dr - A Modern Kardvivas (Budapest)
1951 Crosnier, Roger - Fencing with the Foil (London Faber and Faber) An excellent book for students and teachers alike.
1954 Koch, I.E. - Buhnenfechtkunst
1954 Deladrier, Clovis - Modern Fencing (Menasha, Wisconsin George Banta Co) A comprehensive study of foil, epee, and sabre. Includes teaching methodology.
1960 DeBeaumont, C.L. - Fencing - Ancient and Modern Sport (NY Barnes and Co) Includes a comprehensive treatment of foil, epee, and sabre. Well written.
1961 Crosnier, Roger - Fencing with the Electric Foil (NY A.S. Barnes and Company) Includes valuable material for tournament fencing and the electrical foil
1962 Castello, Hugo/James - Fencing (NY-Ronald Press) A first-rate book on modern fencing, geautifully photographed and including methodology for both the standard and electrical foil.
1965 Baldick, Robert - The Duel-A History of Dueling (NY-Clarkson N. Potter, Inc)
1967 Palffy-Alpar, Julius - Sword and Masque (PA F.A. Davis Co) (40/100) Includes methodology of the foil, epee, and sabre as well as an excellent and comprehensive history of fencing, and a chapter on theatrical fencing.
1967 Wagner, Eduard - Cut & Thrust Weapons (London)(150/300)
1968 Bacon, Francis - The Chare Touching Duels (NY-Da Capo Press)
1970 Anderson, Bob - All About Fencing (NY)(20) A well-written book on fundamental foil technique featuring flip-page sequence photographs.
1971 Lukovich, Istvan - Electric Foil Fencing (Corvina Press, Dist in US by Sportshelf, NY), An excellent book relating to modern electrical fencing.
1971 Moody, Dorothy/Hoepner/Barbara - Fencing Fun and Fundamentals (Oakland, CA B&D Pub) A comprehensive handbook on fencing especially designed for the teacher.
1971 Wise, Arther - The Art and History of Personal Combat" (London) Hugh Evelyn Ltd. This important work is a must read. It presents valuable information from dozens of historical manuals and period sources. Although, it ignores both the Elizabethan cut & thrust style and feudal Japanese sword arts, as well as gives an overly simplistic impression of the medieval period.
1971 Angelo, Domenico/Henry - The School of Fencing (Lands End Press) An excellent book for the history buff. Includes facsimiles of three rare and valuable books on fencing by the noted eighteenth-century fencing masters.
1972 Bower, Muriel/Farso/Mari - Fencing (2nd ed Dubuque, Iowa, N.Potter Inc)
1976 Selberg, Charles - Foil (U of Ca., Santa Cruz) Addison Wesley, 1976. Of all the books on modern sport fencing and its theories, this is among the top two worth reading for historical sword enthusiasts and practitioners.
1977 Lownds, Camille - Foil Around and Stay Fit (Chicago)(15)
1990 Turner, Craig - Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay and Tony Soper (Southern Illinois University Press) This superb, scholarly works is a modern classic. Although ignoring the cut & thrust method and focusing on theatrical uses, it presents an invaluable analysis of three renaissance manuals (Saviolo, Silver, and Di Grassi). This is a must read for historical swordsman and living history reenactors.
1992 Morton, E.D. - A-Z of Fencing (London) Queen Anne's Press. A useful listing of fencing terms dealing mostly with the modern sport form and that of the 18th and 19th centuries. Often cited as a source by other books.
1995 Pardoel, Henk - A Bibliography of the Art and Sport of Fencing (Canadian) This edition is a black and white, perfect bound soft cover publication. It contains over 1,900 entries with some illustrations(25.50) .
19xx Brown, Terry - English Martial Arts (UK) Saxon Books, Contains over 200 photographs and covers history, weapons, and techniques of English martial-arts mostly from the 1600's and 1700's. Covers basket-hilted broadsword, sword & buckler, quarterstaff, bill, wrestling, and some sword & dagger using historical sources. It had much more it could have said, but is very well done, with very valuable material! It is a welcomed study, smoothly written.
? Peccoraro-Pessina - La scherma di sciabola