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• L'academie de l'admirable art de la lutte : montrant d'une maniere très exacte non seulement la force extraordinaire de l'homme, mais aussi les mouvemens merveilleux, l'usage singulier, & les souplesses des principales parties ou membres du corps humain : avec une instruction claire & familiaire, comment on peut en toutes les occasions repousser sûrement & adroitement toutes sortes d'insultes & d'attaques (Chez Isaac Severinus ..., in the 1690s), by Romeyn de Hooghe, Isaac Severinus, and Nicolaes Petter (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Grondige beschryvinge van de edele ende ridderlijcke scherm- ofte wapen-konste : noyt diergelijcke in dese nederduytse tale in den druck uytgegaen, met veele schoone kopere figueren verciert (Voor Daniel van Dalen ..., 1676), by Johannes Georgius Bruchius, Abraham Verhoef, and Daniel van den Dalen (page images at HathiTrust)
• La spada maestra di me Bondì di Mazo da Venetia : libro, doue si trattano i vantaggi della nobilissima professione della scherma sì del caminare, girare, & ritirarsi, come del ferire sicuramente, e difendersi. (Per Domenico Lovisa à Rialto, à spese dell'autore, 1696), by Bondì di Mazo, Domenico Lovisa, and Gratia Sacerdote (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)

• Original contract of the Society of Sword Men in Scotland. (Edinburgh : printed by John Reid, at his printing-house in Bells-wynd, anno Domini, 1692), by William Hope (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Klare onderrichtinge der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst : verhandelende hoemen in alle voorvallen van twist in handtgemeenschap, sich kan hoeden : en alle aengrepen, borst-stooten, vuyst-slagen &c. versetten ... (By Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge ..., 1674), by Nicolaes Petter, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Fechtbuch aus dem Jahre 1467 : Gerichtliche und andere zweikämpfe Darstellend (J.G. Calve, 1887), by Hans. Talhoffer and Gustav Hergsell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on bayonet training, no. 2 : adapted from a Canadian publication. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1917), by Army War College (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to out-think your opponent : or, T.N. tactics for close-in fighting (J.J. Newbegin, 1918), by Al Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on bayonet training : compiled from foreign reports. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1917), by Army War College (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-to-hand fighting; a system of personal defense for the soldier (Macmillan Co., 1918), by Arthur Elmer Marriott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self defense for the individual ... (United litho. & ptg. cos., 1919), by Billy C. Sandow (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'academie de l'admirable art de la lutte : montrant d'une maniere très exacte non seulement la force extraordinaire de l'homme, mais aussi les mouvemens merveilleux, l'usage singulier, & les souplesses des principales parties ou membres du corps humain : avec une instruction claire & familiaire, comment on peut en toutes les occasions repousser sûrement & adroitement toutes sortes d'insultes & d'attaques (Chez Isaac Severinus ..., in the 1690s), by Romeyn de Hooghe, Isaac Severinus, and Nicolaes Petter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defense manual of commando jiu jitsu (Wilcox & Follett co., 1943), by Irvin Cahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kill or get killed : riot control techniques, manhandling, and close combat, for police and the military (U.S. Marine Corps, 1991), by Rex Applegate and United States Marine Corps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand to Hand Fighting : the Use of Bayonet ... (George Banta Pub. Co., 1918), by Haskell C. Billings and Harry B. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Judo, jiu-jitsu, and hand-to-hand fighting: a list of references. (Washington, 1943), by Library of Congress Division of Bibliography and Helen Dudenbostel Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighter and a woman (Drinking Gourd Press, 2005), by Emmanuel Aryeequaye Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)

• Méthode de Police Pratique, à l'Usage des Agents de l'Autorité: Enseignant les Divers Moyens d'Arrêter, Immobiliser, Terrasser, Conduire ou Emporter un Malfaiteur Même Armé (in French; Paris: J. Rueff, 1909), by Charles Péchard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hrayr zinavarzhakan khumbi zinuorakan girkʻě. (Tp. "Hayrenikʻ"i, 1918), by P. Ayvazean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Do or die : a supplementary manual on individual combat : showing advanced science in bayonet, knife, jiu-jitsu, savate and boxing for those whose duties may lead them into a "tight spot" ([W. J. Dornan], 1937), by Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

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