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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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Dennison’s Bogie Book for Halloween (1920)

- October 30, 2012 in collections, games, guide, halloween, party, texts, Texts: 20th, Texts: Miscellaneous, Texts: Non-fiction

Dennison’s bogie book, by Dennison manufacturing co.; 1920; Dennison manufacturing co., Framingham, Massachusetts.] Decoration, costume and party suggestions from 1920 for the night of Halloween, that one time (according to the book) “of all the year when an opportunity is supposed to be given for looking into the future and having one’s fate settled for the coming twelve months”. Full of lots of handicraft tips on making that perfect spooky zone, as well as various party games (mostly involving blindfolds and choosing future loves) and a couple of ghost stories to read when midnight strikes. So.. “Why not invite your friends to a Hallowe’en party and join in the fun of trying some of the time-honored ways of finding out what the future holds in store?” The book is housed at the Internet Archive, donated by the Library of Congress. Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription!

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How to Become a Magician (1882)

- May 16, 2012 in guide, magician, non-article, texts, Texts: 19th, Texts: Miscellaneous, Texts: Non-fiction, Texts: Science, victorian

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How to Become a Magician, Containing a Grand Assortment of Magical Illusions as Performed by the Leading Magicians and Wizards of the Day; 1882; F. Tousey, New York

A grand assortment of various tricks, illusions, conjurings, deceptions and slights of hand….

The following pages are not intended to make the young reader either a cheat or a trickster; there is nothing perhaps so utterly contemptible in every-day life as trickery and deceit, and we would caution our young friends not to cultivate a love of deception, which is only allowable in such feats of amusement, because it is in fact not deception at all, when everybody expects to be puzzled, and is only left to find out the mystery the best way he can.


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  • The Faerie Queene (1596)

  • The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide (1876)

  • How to Become a Magician (1882)

  • A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1899)

  • The Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski (1820)

  • Choregraphie (1701)

  • A Burlesque Translation of Homer (1797)

  • Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887)

  • Aino Folktales (1888)

  • Welsh Fairytales and Other Stories (1894)

  • Musaeum Clausum (1684)

  • An Account of a Fire-Ball, Seen at Hornsey, by William Hirst (1753)

  • Some Account of a Sheep Having a Monstrous Horn Growing from His Throat (1755)

  • A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (1907)

  • An Alphabet of History (1905)

  • Natural History of Shakespeare; Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits, and Animals (1877)

  • The selection of Type is just as important as the selection of words (1939?)

  • Hand book of the carnival, containing Mardi-Gras, its ancient and modern observance (1874)

  • Original acrostics on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects (1861)

  • James Joyce's Chamber Music (1918 American Edition)

  • Madame Tussaud's Napoleon Relics, Pictures and Other Curiosities (1901)

  • Mythical Monsters (1886)

  • Yuletide Entertainments (1910)

  • Uriah Jewett and the Sea Serpent of Lake Memphemagog (1917)

  • The Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern (1807)

  • The attitudes of animals in motion, illustrated with the zoopraxiscope (1882)

  • The Diary of a Nobody (1919 edition)

  • Superstitions About Animals (1904)

  • Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record (1880)

  • Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)

  • Horse Laughs (1891)

  • Napoleon's Oraculum (1839)

  • Pirates (1922)

  • The Last American (1889)

  • The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)

  • English As She Is Spoke (1884)

  • The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)

  • The Book of Topiary (1904)

  • Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)

  • Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)

  • Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)

  • Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton" (1865)

  • Letters From A Cat (1879)

  • Quarles' Emblems (1886)

  • The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)

  • An account of the late improvements in galvanism (1803)

  • Armata: a fragment (1817)

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    Old French Fairytales (1920)






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