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Atlas zur Fabrikation der Stahl-Warren, oder Herstellung der Messer, Gabeln, Scheeren, Säbel, Dolche u.f.w
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Kirkpatrick reference: 1474
Description: 4 p., XIV leaves of plates: illustrations
Imprint: Weimar : Bernhard Friedrich Voigt
Contributor: Schirlitz, F.L., editor
Ownership notes: Ms. annotations by Burton on the illustrated leaf insertion and the Catalogue.
Correspondence and insertions: [4] page ms. letter to Lady Burton by H. Ellen Bishop, 13 July 1889. [3] page ms. letter to Burton by J.H. Angst, 9 May 1889. Postcard to Burton signed in Arabic [R.S. Charnock], 4 July 1884. Envelope addressed to Burton in Trieste with his annotations on verso. Clipping of a book review of Den Yngre Jernalders Svaerd from The Academy, 10 Aug. 1889; announcement of the publication of Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling; clipping of a short article on Mr. Burns' duelling challenge; clipping of an article titled "Fencing experts" from the New York Herald, Paris (Supplement), 9 Feb. 1890; article titled "Honneur aux armes, tribute paid by a French nobleman to American fencers" from the N.Y. Herald, 13 April 1889; review of "The sword of Argantyr: a dramatic cantata"; notice of a paper on Indonesian weapons. Folded illustrated plate showing soldiers, with Burton's ms. annotations. 16 pages of the Selections from the descriptive catalogue of swords, daggers, sword furniture, &c., in the Gilbertson colnection[sic], 1888.
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