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Editorial Reviews - Pallas armata The gentlemans armorie; wherein the right and genuine use of the rapier and of the sword, as well against the right handed as against the left handed man is displayed. (1639) From the Publisher EARLY HISTORY OF MILITARY, WAR AND WEAPONRY. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Any professional or amateur student of war will thrill at the untold riches in this collection of battle theory and practice in the early Western World. The Age of Discovery and Enlightenment was also a time of great political and religious unrest, revealed in accounts of conflicts such as the Wars of the Roses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Pallas armata The gentlemans armorie; wherein the right and genuine use of the rapier and of the sword, as well against the right handed as against the left handed man is displayed.G. A., fl. 1639.The dedicatory epistle signed: G.A.Printer's name from STC.[32], 96 p.Printed at London : By I[ohn] D[awson] for Iohn Williams, at the signe of the Crane in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639.STC (2nd ed.) / 3English Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library Synopsis EARLY HISTORY OF MILITARY, WAR AND WEAPONRY. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in indiv