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• Dueling -- Early works to 1800
• Honor -- Early works to 1800

• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry: Translated and Printed by William Caxton, From a French Version of Ramón Lull's "Le Libre del Orde de Cauayleria", Together With Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian Ms. 6149) (EETS original series #168; London: Pub for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Ramon Llull, ed. by A. T. P. Byles, trans. by William Caxton, contrib. by Adam Loutfut (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, by Ramon Llull, trans. by William Caxton (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Della Cavalleria ([G. E. v. Löhneyss], 1609), by Georg Engelhard von Löhneyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boke of Noblesse: Addressed to King Edward the Fourth on His Invasion of France in 1475, ed. by John Gough Nichols (Gutenberg ebook)

• Budō shoshinshū : jō chū ge gappon. (Hisada Sanae, 1894), by Yūzan Daidōji (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jōzan kidan. Tsuketari, Bushō kanjōki (Hakubunkan, 1929), by Jōzan Yuasa, Tan'an Kumazawa, and Kōya Nakamura (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)
• A full inquiry into the subject of suicide : to which are added (as being closely connected with the subject) two treatises on duelling and gaming (Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington; J. Robson and W. Clarke; G. Nicol; and J. and T. Egerton; Fletcher, Prince and Cooke, Oxford; Merrills, Lunn, Cambridge; Simmons and Kirby, Canterbury; and Gillman, Rochester, 1790), by Charles Moore, Webster Gillman, G. aq Nicol, Simmons and Kirkby, Lunn Merrills, Prince and Cooke Fletcher, Thomas and John Egerton (Firm), J. Robson and W. Clarke, and F. and C. Rivington J. (page images at HathiTrust)
• I tre libri di Messer Giovan Battista Svsio della ingivstitia del dvello : et di coloro, che lo permettono : all'invittiss et Christianissimo Henrico Secondo Re di Francia (Apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1558), by Giovanni Battista Susio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spada di honore : libro primo delle osservazioni cavaleresche (Presso Paolo Balioni, 1672), by Berlingiero Gessi, Paolo Balioni, and Lorenzo Tinti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La spada di honore : libro primo delle Osseruazioni caualeresche (Per l'erede di Domenico Barbieri, 1671), by Berlingiero Gessi, Erede di Domenico Barbieri, and Lorenzo Tinti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve dv cavalier, ov, L'exercice de monter a cheval (Chez Guillaume Loyson ... et Iean Baptiste Loyson ..., 1650), by René de Menou and François Chauveau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-duello. The anatomie of duells, with the symptomes thereof A treatise wherein is learnedly handled, whether a Christian magistrate may lawfully grant a duell, for to end a difference which consisteth in fact. Also, the maner and forme of combats granted, with the seuerall orders obserued in the proceeding thereof, with the list of such duels, as haue beene performed before the Kings of England. Truly and compendiously collected and set forth by Mr. Iohn Despagne, for the good of soueraigne and subiect. Published by his Maiesties command. (London : Printed by Thomas Harper for B. Fisher, dwelling in Aldersgate-street at the Talbot, 1632), by Jean d' Espagne and Andrew Delamore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The duello or single combat from antiquitie deriued into this kingdome of England, with seuerall kindes, and ceremonious formes thereof from good authority described. (London : Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for I. Helme, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard, in Fleet-streete, 1610), by John Selden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright. With the decree of the Star-chamber in the same cause. ([London] : Printed [by George Eld] for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold [by Robert Wilson and W. Bladen] at Graies Inne Gate, and in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bible, 1614), by Francis Bacon and England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ombres des défuncts sieurs de Villemor et de Fontaines. English ([Cambridge] : Printed by Cantrell Legge, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1624), by Guillaume de Chevalier and Thomas Heigham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ... (London : Printed for Nathaniel Ekins ..., 1659), by Thomas Pestell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Honours preservation without blood, or, A sober advice to duellists being a compendious tract of the most exquisite nature to appease the sudden fits of fury, which English-spirits have of late been too much subject to, with many cautions how without the loss of reputation, or the least imprint of cowardise, as well the nobility as gentry of this nation may refuse to hazard their lives and fortunes on such mean pretences of vindicating miscalled honour or unmanly gallatry, shewing likewise, into what dangerous inconviences men thrust themselves forward in such cases with as account how such duels prove plain murther, and are contrary to the laws of God and man / written by a well-wisher to both peace and honour. (London : Printed for Phillip Brooksby, 1680), by Well-wisher to both peace and honour (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Duell-ease A worde with. valiant spiritts shewing the abuse of duells, that valour, refuseth challenges and priuate combates. sett foorth by G.F. a defendour of Christian valoure. ([London] : Imprinted by Ann Griffin London, 1635), by defendour of Christian valoure G. F. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (HTML at pbm.com)
• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)
• Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (illustrated HTML at pbm.com)
• L'art des armes, ou, La maniere la plus certaine de se servir utilement de l'épée, soit pour attaquer, soit pour se défendre : simplifiée & démontrée dans toute son étendue & sa perfection, suivant les meilleurs principes de théorie & de pratique adoptés actuellement en France ... (Chez Jombert, Herissant fils, Lacombe, 1766), by Guillaume Danet, Vaxeillère, and Gustave Taraval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gran simvlacro dell'arte e dell'vso della scherma (Apresso Saluestro Marchetti e Camillo Turi, 1610), by Ridolfo Capoferro, Camillo Turi, Silvestro Marchetti, and Raffaello Schiaminossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traite en raccourci sur l'art des armes (Ignace Soffietti, 1782), by Alexandre Picard and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di scientia d'arme : con vn dialogo di filosofia (per Antonio Blado stampadore Apostolico, 1553), by Camillo Agrippa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di scherma (Per le stampe di Ulisse Ramponi, 1800), by Paolo Bertelli and Ulisse Ramponi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regole della scherma insegnate da Lelio e Titta Marcelli (Nella Stamperia di Dom. Ant. Ercole, 1686), by Francesco Antonio Marcelli and Dominicus Antonius Hercules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trastvlli gverrieri di Marin Bresciani, maestro d'armi ferrarese ([Rizzardi, 1668), by Marin Bresciani and 17th cent Rizzardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo spadone (Per Sebastiano Sardi, 1653), by Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri and Sebastiano Sardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dello schermo d'Angelo Vizani dal Montone bolognese : nel quale discorre intorno all'eccellenza dell'armi, & delle lettere, & intorno all'offesa, & difesa : et insegna vno schermo di spada sola sicuro, e singolare : con vna tauola copiosissma. (Per Gio. Rossi, 1588), by Angelo Vizani and Zacharia Cavalcabò (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie pratique de l'escrime, pour la pointe seule : avec des remarques instructives pour l'assaut, & les moyens d'y parvenir par gradation : dédiée à S.A.S. monseigneur le duc de Bourbon (De l'Imprimerie de la veuve Simon & fils, imprimeur-libraires de LL. AA. SS. Messeigneurs le prince de Condé & le duc de Bourbon, & de l'Archevêché, rue des Mathurins, 1772), by Sieur Batier, Charles de Poilly, Claude Simon, Élisabeth Simon, and Jean-François Janinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell'arte di scrimia libri tre (Appresso Giulio Tamborino, 1572), by Giovanni dall' Agocchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teatro, nelquale sono rappresentate diuerse maniere (Appresso Paolo Frambotto, 1628), by Nicoletto Giganti and Odoardo Fialetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio de los fvndamentos de la verdadera destreza, y filosofia de las armas (Por Antonio de Zafra, 1675), by Francisco Antonio de Ettenhard and Antonio Zafra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geöffnete Fecht-Boden : auf welchen durch kurtz gefaste Regeln gute Anleitung zum rechten Fundament der Fecht-Kunst gegeben, und gewiesen wird, worinnen die Haupt-Lectiones bestehen, und wie sie nach heutiger Manier ausgeübt, auch vortheilhafftig mit guter Addresse können angebracht werden : mit dazu dienlichen Figuren (Bey Benjamin Schillern ..., 1706), by Sr C. and Benjamin Schiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neu kunstlich Fechtbuch: darinnen 500 Stuck im ainfachen Rapier, wie auch ettliche im Rapier vnd Dolch, dess weltberümbten Fecht- [vnd Lehrmeisters] Sig. Salvator Fabri da Padoa, so wol auch anderer italienisch[e]n vnd französischen Fechter beste Kunststuck, nach rechter Lini vnd fundamentalischer Ordnung (Bei Balthasar Caimox zu finden, 1616), by Salvatore Fabris, Ridolfo Capoferro, Gabriel Weyer, and Sebastian Heussler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau traité de l'art des armes : dans lequel on établit les principes certains de cet art, & où l'on enseigne les moyens les plus simples de les mettre en pratique : ouvrage nécessaire aux personnes qui se destinent aux armes, & utile à celles qui veulent se rappeller les principes qu'on leur a enseignés : avec des figures en taile-douce (Chez F.J. Desoer, imprimeur-libraire ... :, 1778), by Nicolas Demeuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il vero maneggio di spada (Per l'herede di Vittorio Benacci, 1660), by Alessandro Senese and Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della vera pratica & scienza d'armi libri dve (Per Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1624), by Salvatore Fabris, I. de Bost, Nicolaus Andreae, Francesco Valesio, and Jan van Halbeeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italiansche FechtKunst (Verlegts Erasmus Hynitzsch, druckts Michael Vogt, 1677), by Salvatore Fabris, Michael Vogt, Erasmus Hynitzch, Lorenz Hartung, and Christian Romstet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gran simvlacro dell'arte e dell'vso della scherma (Apresso Saluestro Marchetti e Camillo Turi, 1610), by Ridolfo Capoferro and Raffaello Schiaminossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattati del cavalier Bartolomeo Sereno : dell'vso della lancia a cauallo : del combattere a piede alla sbarra : et dell'imprese, et inuentioni caualieresche. (Per Gio. Battista Gargano & Lucretio Nucci, 1610), by Bartolomeo Sereno and Cesare Alberini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau traité de la perfection sur le fait des armes : enseignant la maniere de combattre, de l'epée de pointe seule, toutes les gardes étrangeres, l'espadon, les piques, hallebardes, bayonnettes au bout du fusil, fleaux brisés & bâtons deux bouts : ensemble à faire de bonne grace les saluts de l'esponton, l'exercice du fusil & celui de la grénadiere, tels qu'ils se pratiquent aujourd'huy dans l'art militaire de France : orné de figures en taille douce (Chez Moette ... :, 1736), by P.-J.-F. Girard, Jacques de Favanne, and E. Herblot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hungarian and highland broad sword (Published as the Act directs Feby. 12th 1799 by H. Angelo ..., 1799), by Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Angelo, and John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il duello. (At London : Printed [by Thomas Scarlet and Joan Orwin] for William Mattes, and are to be solde at his shop in Fleetestreete, at the signe of the hand and Plough, 1595), by Vincentio Saviolo and Girolamo Muzio (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat fencing-master in which is fully described the whole guards, parades & lessons belonging to the small-sword : as also the best rules for playing against either artists or ignorants with blunts or sharps : together with directions how to behave in a single combat on horse-back : illustrated with figures representing the most necessary postures / by Sir W. Hope, Kt. (London : Printed for Dorman Newman ..., 1691), by William Hope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sword-man's vade-mecum, &c. (London : printed, and are to be sold by J. Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, and S. Holford at the Crown in the Pall-Mall, 1694), by William Hope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Il duello. (London : Printed by [Thomas Scarlet for] Iohn VVolfe, 1595), by Vincentio Saviolo and Girolamo Muzio (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Silver his Paradoxes of defence. (London : Printed [by Richard Field] for Edvvard Blount, 1599), by George Silver (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Spada di honore : libro primo delle osservazioni cavaleresche (Presso Paolo Balioni, 1672), by Berlingiero Gessi, Paolo Balioni, and Lorenzo Tinti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La spada di honore : libro primo delle Osseruazioni caualeresche (Per l'erede di Domenico Barbieri, 1671), by Berlingiero Gessi, Erede di Domenico Barbieri, and Lorenzo Tinti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The booke of honor and armes. (Printed [by T. Orwin for] Richard Ihones ..., 1590), by George Peele, Vincentio Saviolo, William Segar, and Richard Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The right honourable, Pourtraid. Or, the vizard taken off pretenders With perswasive reasons to allure the will, and reduce mens actiosn to obtain the title. As also a set boundary to the honour of saints departed. By Samuel Gilbert, Philalēthḗd. (London : printed by F. Clark, for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street, 1682), by Samuel Gilbert and Robert White (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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