The Collection Or Arms And Armor Of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1843-1909
New York: Privately Printed [at the De Vinne Press], 1914. First edition. Hardcover. [6], v-xiv, [2], 174 pages. 34 x 27 cm. Fifty four tipped-in plates, frontispiece portrait of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. Over 200 small black and whitee text figures. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, our copy not numbered with author's name noted on limitation page.The author was the foremost American authority of his time on arms and armor, and the Honorary Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fifty four tipped-in plates. The first catalogue of arms and armor devoted to an American collection which presented full and half suits, shields, horse trappings, lances, spurs, swords, hunting knives, daggers, shafted weapons, crossbows, guns, pistols, powder horns, and numerous other pieces. Each piece is fully annotated, including place of origin, date and provenance. List of Armorers' Names. Index. Modern beige cloth, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine. Item #23633
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