interesting book
 

"A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence Containing the Small and Back-Sword"

The book describes the use, positioning and observations of the 18th century.
Also including a discussion of the prope techniques and methods of boxing

As it is free of copyrights, their are legal downloads available

https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/fenc...fuldefense.pdf

Thanks for this cool find, GP. I'll print off a copy soon! It is always a great thing when one can find old, original ephemera or documents like this-

you're welcome !

in that case, I have 2 more legal free downloads for you:

Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword Feats by J. M. Waite

https://archive.org/details/lessonsi...l&view=theater

An edition of Fencing (1889) by Walter Herries Pollock
https://archive.org/details/fencing0...l&view=theater

FYI: some 20 years ago my teeny daughter stopped with swimming as a sport and I asked her to continue with some sport or another.
Lucky me...at that moment the 12 year old "fell" in love with Captain Jack Sparrow...so daddy had to buy here a fence suit, mask and foils.
After some years as she really got into it, I did buy her some books and found some legal downloads for her in case she would be interested to learn more about.
She was, ze rezt iz hiztory...☺☺☺

Thanks for these as well, GP. I wish I'd gotten into fencing when I was a young lad. Now, with all that thrusting and leaping back, my knees would definitely pop from their sockets! Ahhh, old age!:rolleyes:

That's really a terrific share. The Schola board has been gone awhile but there have been a few pools of assembly to share these works. I am very disappointed in the facebook status of approving posts and stuff not getting through.

Good stuff here

https://www.swordfightinglondon.com/resources

Cheers
GC

Thanks for that link as well, Glenn.

Here's one of my favorites which, although modern, is very thorough and important from a maritime perspective and covering the archaeological aspects of a ship's weapons/artifacts from a scientific angle.



https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147123095.pdf

although available as hard copy, the museum has provided a free of charge legal link on yataghans, most made in the Balkans during the Ottoman empire's presence in Europe


https://jatagani.hismus.hr/knjizstarte.htm