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HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE, and NICOLAES PETTER.
L'Académie de l'admirable art de la lutte. Leide: Isaac Severinus, [1712].

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HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE, and NICOLAES PETTER.

L'Académie de l'admirable art de la lutte. Leide: Isaac Severinus, [1712].
4to (264 x 203 mm). [4], 71 engraved plates, [2], 4 folding half-sheets containing explanation of plates. Modern red morocco, with grolieresque design of interlocking strapwork in olive, green and black morocco, with pointille and stem design in gilt, morocco turn-ins, gilt, with silk doublures and endpapers. Joints starting, with two small chips to ends of spine; corners bumped. Minor foxing to plates, with expert repair along outer margins of some leaves. A very good copy.
Provenance: Sotheby's, June 1, 1995, lot 254.

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, large paper issue, of this famous manual of self-defense, with 2 pp preface and 71 superb engraved plates by De Hooghe, exhibiting various modes of wrestling and hand-to-hand fighting. First published by Petter's student Robbert Cors in 1674 and incorporating the finely engraved plates by De Hooghe, L'admirable art de la lutte has been acclaimed as "the finest of all wrestling books - and deservedly the most famous" (Anglo, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe). The first edition in French, the scarce large paper issue, of one of the most important works on hand-to-hand combat.

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