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• A tryall [sic] skill betwen Josias Maynard citizen and cutler of London, and master of the noble science of defence at the Black Swan in Holborne & of the House of White-Friers. And William Swinow, alias Scot, citizen and cooke of London, and master of the noble science of defence of the House of Tower Royall. ([London : s.n., 1652]), by Josias Maynard and William Swinnow (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, Connecting the Small and Back-Sword, and Shewing the Affinity Between Them (London: T. Gardner, 1747), by John Godfrey (PDF page images at MSU)
• Old sword-play : the systems of fence in vogue during the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries with lessons arranged from the works of various ancient masters (H. Grevel ;, 1892), by Alfred Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jeu de l'épée : leçons de Jules Jacob (P. Ollendorff, 1887), by Jules Jacob, Anatole de La Forge, A. Ranc, Paul de Cassagnac, and Emile André (page images at HathiTrust)
• The broadsword : as taught by the celebrated Italian masters, Signors Masiello and Ciullini, of Florence (W.H. Allen, 1889), by Francis Vere Wright, Signor Ciullini, and Signor Masiello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of defence on foot, with the broad sword and sabre; adapted also for the spadroon, or cut and thrust sword...with ten lessons of John Taylor (Egerton, 1804), by Robert Ker Porter, John Taylor, John Taylor, and R. K. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facilimo methodo, theórico e prático do verdadeiro jogo da espada : ensinado em poucas licçoens (Typ. Monarchica Const. de F. de S.N. Cascaes, 1842), by Manoel Dias de Pinna (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)
• Regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise (Printed by W. Clowes, 1819), by Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• His True Art of Defense (spelling modernized and Americanized), by Giacomo di Grassi (HTML at musketeer.org)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Teatro, nelquale sono rappresentate diuerse maniere (Appresso Paolo Frambotto, 1628), by Nicoletto Giganti and Odoardo Fialetti (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Pallas armata The gentlemans armorie; wherein the right and genuine use of the rapier and of the sword, as well against the right handed as against the left handed man is displayed: and now set forth and first published for the commmon [sic] good by the author. (Printed at London : By I[ohn] D[awson] for Iohn Williams, at the signe of the Crane in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639), by fl. 1639 G. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme. English (Printed at London : [By G. Shaw?] for I. I[aggard] and are to be sold within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre, 1594), by Giacomo di Grassi, Thomas Churchyard, and Gentleman I. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three to one being, an English-Spanish combat, performed by a westerne gentleman, of Tauystoke in Deuon shire with an English quarter-staffe, against three Spanish rapiers and poniards, at Sherries in Spaine, the fifteene day of Nouember, 1625. In the presence of dukes, condes, marquesses, and other great dons of Spaine, being the counsell of warre. The author of this booke, and actor in this encounter, Richard Peeeke [sic]. (London : Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for I[ohn] T[rundle], 1626), by Richard Pike (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)

• The three guardsmen (Leslie-Judge, 1911), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, contrib. by Auguste Maquet
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • HTML at FireBlade
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Three Musketeers (2 volumes "translated from the latest French edition"; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Alexandre Dumas, contrib. by Auguste Maquet, illust. by Maurice Leloir
  • Part 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 2 (volume titled "Milady"): page images at HathiTrust
• The three guardsmen (Leslie-Judge, 1911), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three musketeers. (Little, Brown & co., 1900), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three musketeers (London ; New York : G. Routledge & Sons, [1881], 1881), by Alexandre Dumas, Chester W. Topp, Chester W. Topp collection of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks (Emory University. MARBL), and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three musketeers (Little, Brown, 1900), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirsty blades, by Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, illust. by Hugh Rankin (Gutenberg ebook)
• My lady of Cleeve, by Percy John Hartley, illust. by Harrison Fisher and Herman Pfeifer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fortune, by J. C. Snaith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The further adventures of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg ebook)
• I tre moschettieri, vol. IV (in Italian), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Angiolo Orvieto (Gutenberg ebook)
• I tre moschettieri, vol. III (in Italian), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Angiolo Orvieto (Gutenberg ebook)
• I tre moschettieri, vol. II (in Italian), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Angiolo Orvieto (Gutenberg ebook)
• I tre moschettieri, vol. I (in Italian), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Angiolo Orvieto (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 2 (of 2) (in French), by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, illust. by Maurice Leloir (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2) (in French), by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, illust. by Maurice Leloir (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Drie Musketiers dl. I en II (in Dutch), by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg ebook)

• L'art de la boxe française et de la canne (Emotion primitive, 2010), by Joseph Charlemont (page images at HathiTrust)

• Regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise (Printed by W. Clowes, 1819), by Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, Connecting the Small and Back-Sword, and Shewing the Affinity Between Them (London: T. Gardner, 1747), by John Godfrey (PDF page images at MSU)

• As we sweep through the deep (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895), by Gordon Stables, illust. by Rhind (page images at Florida)

• Facilimo methodo, theórico e prático do verdadeiro jogo da espada : ensinado em poucas licçoens (Typ. Monarchica Const. de F. de S.N. Cascaes, 1842), by Manoel Dias de Pinna (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Darstellung des persischen Lebens nach Muslih-uddîn Sa'dí. (a. S., 1901), by Carl Philipp (page images at HathiTrust)

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