BASHFORD DEAN - CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS AND HUNTING SWORDS printed at Imprimerie de Vaugirard

printed at Imprimerie de Vaugirard

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BASHFORD DEAN - CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS AND HUNTING SWORDS printed at Imprimerie de VaugirardBASHFORD DEAN CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS AND HUNTING SWORDS INCLUDING THE ELLIS, DE DINO, RIGGS AND REUBELL COLLECTIONSPublished by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, printed at Imprimerie de Vaugirard, Paris, 1929. One of 900 copies printed. Extensively illustrated with full page photo engravings of various European small swords, from the inception in the mid 1600s to the early 1800s, and fully annotated. This is the most gorgeously