BASHFORD DEAN - CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS AND HUNTING SWORDS with a 16"/40 cm long

with a 16"/40 cm long blade

the cocking mechanism engages and the gun fires

Classic title

No scabbard shoe present

BASHFORD DEAN - CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS AND HUNTING SWORDS with a 16"/40 cm longBASHFORD 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