Treatise on Dueling - Abraham Bosquett
The Young Man of Honour's Vade-Mecum, Being a Salutary Treatise on Duelling. Together with the Annals of Chivalry, the Ordeal Trial, and Judicial Combat, from the Earliest Times,
First edition later bookplate of John Norbury, original boards, uncut, ink signature to upper board, a little rubbed, rebacked, [Thimm p.35], 12mo, C.Chapple, 1817
The book provides practical advice on loading a pistol, taking position when fighting a duel, and selecting a second. It also discusses the conduct and the duties of the second, and suggests methods to suppress dueling.
There is a long contemporary ink annotation to note on religion at the end, reading:
"The Ceremony of Religion is a farce. Duels are a defiance of our God and a reproach to man, but while the forms of Society cannot bear us up. I belive no man can live honourably in the world without the Trial to avoid them & should avoid them if he possibly can - Therefor let him not consult his own opinion on points of honor, Let him leave to uninterested persons that point aforsed that some [satis]faction should allow their moderate reference I [mean] the [talk of action] of having made that reference be the discussion whether to fight or no"
According to Abraham Bosquett although duelling was becoming ‘ so much a science in some men’s hands ’, ‘ itis gratifying to reflect, that, of late years, the conciliating manners, and mildness of temper, characteristic of the true gentleman, have generally prevented these rencontres from being carried to deadly extremes ’
The Young Man of Honour's Vade-Mecum, Being a Salutary Treatise on Duelling. Together with the Annals of Chivalry, the Ordeal Trial, and Judicial Combat, from the Earliest Times,
First edition later bookplate of John Norbury, original boards, uncut, ink signature to upper board, a little rubbed, rebacked, [Thimm p.35], 12mo, C.Chapple, 1817
The book provides practical advice on loading a pistol, taking position when fighting a duel, and selecting a second. It also discusses the conduct and the duties of the second, and suggests methods to suppress dueling.
There is a long contemporary ink annotation to note on religion at the end, reading:
"The Ceremony of Religion is a farce. Duels are a defiance of our God and a reproach to man, but while the forms of Society cannot bear us up. I belive no man can live honourably in the world without the Trial to avoid them & should avoid them if he possibly can - Therefor let him not consult his own opinion on points of honor, Let him leave to uninterested persons that point aforsed that some [satis]faction should allow their moderate reference I [mean] the [talk of action] of having made that reference be the discussion whether to fight or no"
According to Abraham Bosquett although duelling was becoming ‘ so much a science in some men’s hands ’, ‘ itis gratifying to reflect, that, of late years, the conciliating manners, and mildness of temper, characteristic of the true gentleman, have generally prevented these rencontres from being carried to deadly extremes ’
The Young Man of Honour's Vade-Mecum, Being a Salutary Treatise on Duelling. Together with the Annals of Chivalry, the Ordeal Trial, and Judicial Combat, from the Earliest Times,
First edition later bookplate of John Norbury, original boards, uncut, ink signature to upper board, a little rubbed, rebacked, [Thimm p.35], 12mo, C.Chapple, 1817
The book provides practical advice on loading a pistol, taking position when fighting a duel, and selecting a second. It also discusses the conduct and the duties of the second, and suggests methods to suppress dueling.
There is a long contemporary ink annotation to note on religion at the end, reading:
"The Ceremony of Religion is a farce. Duels are a defiance of our God and a reproach to man, but while the forms of Society cannot bear us up. I belive no man can live honourably in the world without the Trial to avoid them & should avoid them if he possibly can - Therefor let him not consult his own opinion on points of honor, Let him leave to uninterested persons that point aforsed that some [satis]faction should allow their moderate reference I [mean] the [talk of action] of having made that reference be the discussion whether to fight or no"
According to Abraham Bosquett although duelling was becoming ‘ so much a science in some men’s hands ’, ‘ itis gratifying to reflect, that, of late years, the conciliating manners, and mildness of temper, characteristic of the true gentleman, have generally prevented these rencontres from being carried to deadly extremes ’