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2014 Military History: Armour • Arms • Battle Plans • Fencing • Fortification

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Extremely rare account of the Battle of the Sound

1. [BALT IC SEA]. Confrontation oder Gegenhaltung dess Schwedischen von Hölsingör vom 8 Nov. St. N. datirten, zu Elbing aber gedruckten Schreibens, und dann der gründlichen Relation Einiger holländischen Schipper welche den 27 Novemb. allhier in Dantzig auffgekommen und an Eydes statt den ganzten Verlauff der neulichen See-Schlacht zwischen holländischen und schwedischen Schiffs-Flotten im Sunde, auszgesaget haben.[Danzig], 1758. 4to. Early 20th-century cloth-backed boards. € 1.250

Extremely rare pamphlet relating to the Battle of the Sound, on 9 November 1658 during the Second Northern War. In support of Denmark, the Dutch fleet under command of Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam tried to prevent the Swedish from gaining control over the Sound, a pivotal route for the Baltic trade and an important factor in the Dutch economy. Although the Dutch were successful, the vice-admirals Witte de With and Peter Floris were killed. Slightly shaved; boards with small tickets and stamps. Very good copy of this rare pamphlet.

WorldCat (1 copy); not in Knuttel; KVK; cf. Tiele, Pamfletten 4619–4639.

Pictorial record of the Dutch War of Independence, with 282 engravings

2. BAUDARTIUS, Willem. Pourtraits en taille douce, et descriptions des sieges, batailles, rencontres & autres choses advenues durant les guerres des Pays Bas . . .Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1616. 2 volumes bound as 1. Oblong 4to (19×23 cm). Volume 1 with letterpress half-title, title-page printed from an engraved plate with a window for the letterpress text. Volume 2 with Michiel Colijn’s woodcut publisher’s device on title-page. Together they include 280 full-page engravings (in addition to the title-page) and 1 double-page engraving, all on integral leaves. 17th-century black-tooled vellum (contemporary with later additions?), with the coat of arms of the Fürst of Anhalt-Zerbst in Saxony on front board. € 12.000

First French edition of the “Views and descriptions of all the battles, sieges and other notable events that occurred in the Netherlands during the war against the King of Spain”, also known under the title De Nassausche oorloghen (The wars of Nassau). It remains an essential source, especially for the period that Prince Maurits and Frederik Hendrik served as stadtholders. It describes and depicts the era’s battles, sieges and political and other events in great detail. Many of the plates were based on the news-sheets issued by Frans

Hogenberg in Cologne during the wars in Europe, from 1558 to 1610. Baudartius acquired only the plates relating to the war in the Netherlands and had many new plates made.With an owner’s inscription at the head of the title-page. With the first quire somewhat loose, with a tear along the fold of the outer bifolium, an occasional small tear, wrinkle or faint water stain, and most leaves very slightly browned, but still in good condition. Binding slightly rubbed and stained, with only remnants of the ties. A remarkable visual tour of the Dutch war of independence.

Cf. Bibl. Belg. II, p. 205; De Buck 5030; Muller, Historieplaten I, no. 413, especially pp. 41–42; for Baudaert: NNBW III, cols. 71–73.

Lovely commemoration of the Imperial success against the French at Acqui Terme in Piedmont, printed in gold and in a gold-brocade wrapper

3. BIORCI, Guido. Applausi poetici alla vera rigenerazione del Piemonte operata nel 1799. Dalla divina provvidenza col celebre valore delle armi Austro-Russe.Acqui Terme (between Torino and Genoua), Giovanni Francesco Arcasio, [1799?]. 4to. With woodcut arms on first leaf. Printed in gold throughout. Gold-brocade decorated paper wrappers, showing an embossed floral pattern with hunters, a wild boar, deer and dogs scattered through it, in gold, orange, yellow, lavendar and blue. In modern clamshell box. € 4.000

Verses celebrating the Habsburg Imperial forces’ repulsion of the French from the walls of Acqui Terme in Piedmont (between Torino and Genoua) on 17 May 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1801). Although the imprint explicitly indicates that it comes from Arcasio’s printing office and that he is printer to the city of Acqui Terme, the ICCU records no other work under his name and no other publications

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at Acqui Terme between 1622 and 1805. It records only one other copy of the present work (at the Biblioteca Federico Patetta) and neither it nor the library’s own catalogue indicates whether it is printed in gold (and neither describes the binding). That copy may also lack the initial leaf with the coat of arms and its blank conjugate. We have located no other copy. The book must have been printed in a very limited number of copies. The printing shows through the paper slightly, but both the book and the wrapper are in fine condition, with only a few small bits of dirt on the wrapper and a couple very minor stains in the foot margin of the last printed page. An extraordinary and extremely rare piece of occasional printing from the War of the Second Coalition.

ICCU (1 copy); not in WorldCat.

Instructions for the Austrian army

4. [CHARLES, Archduke of Austria]. Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der österreichischen Armee.Vienna, Kaiserliche Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1808. Folio. With 25 hand-coloured folding maps and plans, of which some with slips, engraved by Johann Renard, Kilian Ponheimer and Hieronymus Benedicti. Modern sprinkled half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 4.500

Expanded and illustrated edition of a work on the military strategy and tactics of the Austrian army, attributed to Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1771–1847), Austrian field-marshal and third son of emperor Leopold II. An edition with text only was published two years earlier as Grundsätze der Höhern Kriegs-kunst für die Generale . . . (Vienna, 1806). The plates, each with extensive explanatory texts,

illustrate the various stages of attack, square formations attacking Turkish positions and troop movements to protect convoys.Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army and was considered one of Napoleon’s most formidable opponents. During his campaign of 1796 he commanded all Austrian army forces on the Rhine and defeated the French generals Moreau and Jourdan. From the library of the count of Somogymegye, with his bookplate and the remains of the contemporary title label on front pastedown; title-page with two stamps and former shelf number in ink; some occasional soiling. Fine large-margined copy of this work on the Austrian army.

Holzmann & Bohatta II, 8150.

Signed letter by the Duke of Marlborough, diplomat during the War of the Spanish Succession

5. CHURCHILL, John, first Duke of Marlborough. [Letter, signed (“Le Pr[ince]. et Duc de Marlborough”), to Adriaan van Borssele van der Hooge, Lord of Geldermalsen].Frankfurt am Main, 26 October 1707. 4to (23×18 cm). In French, written in brown ink on paper. € 2.500

Signed letter from John Churchill (1650–1722), first Duke of Marlborough, to Adriaan van Borsele van der Hooge (1658–1728), Lord of Geldermalsen, concerning the military situation during the War of the Spanish succession.

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John Churchill, a direct ancestor of the English Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, started his military career in 1667. When the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713) began, King William appointed him plenipotentiary for the negotiations at the Hague and commander-in-chief of the army in Holland, a motley force of Dutch, English and Germans. In the autumn of 1707 he was making arrangements for the next campaign at The Hague and at Frankfurt, where he met the Elector of Hannover and the imperial minister, Count Wratislaw, mentioned in the present letter. By special order of the Queen, Churchill left Frankfurt to be in The Hague not earlier than 3 or 4 November to say good-bye to Geldermalsen, as he writes. On 7 November he returned to England to take part in the party struggles that had lasted through the summer.

For Churchill: Hattendorf, “Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough (1650–1722)”, in: ODNB (online ed.); for Van Borssele: V.d. Aa I, pp. 296–297.

Stunning original drawings for the manufacture of the French army’s artillery and related equipment,

from the American Revolutionary War era

6. [DRAWINGS - MILITARY - FRANCE]. [Artillery drawings]. [Toulon, Angoulème, Versailles, Rochefort, etc., ca. 1762–1784]. Original construction drawings for heavy artillery made for the Ancien Régime: mortars, howitzers, canons, etc. on 98 leaves (55 magnificently hand coloured), ranging from sketches to finished and officially approved designs and detailed working drawings with scales, exact measurements, etc., in various sizes (a few assembled from 2 pieces), mostly about 67×50 cm; plus 2 copies of a large engraving, “Canon de 36” by Petit. Further with 8 manuscript documents related to the drawings. Loose in later half calf box, gold-tooled spine. € 75.000

Unique and remarkable collection of 98 original drawings, 2 copies of an engraving and several man-uscript documents, all concerning the design and fabrication of artillery and other military equipment,

mostly from the last two decades of the Ancien Régime. It includes howitzers, canons, mortars, their various carriages, machines, tools and equipment. Besides the artillery and carriages they show a crane, a detailed design for a chain, shovels and other hand tools, and three drawings show various kinds of knots used by the military. There is also both a prelimi-nary and a finished coloured plan of the foundry at Toulon and a preliminary elevation of a foundry with two furnaces. Many show designs officially signed for approval by military officials: detailed working drawings with scales and exact measurements, made for the foundries to follow when manufacturing the equipment.The collection seems to have been completed around 1784, just after the French helped the fledgling United States defeat England in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and some of the materials were certainly produced during that war. Nearly all of the materials date after the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, so the hostilities with England may have been the impetus for their production.A few drawings have frayed edges or other minor marginal defects, and there is an occasional minor stain, but all drawings are in very good or fine condition. An unmatched source for the exact details of artillery and other equipment used by France around the time of the American Revolutionary War.

General Dufour’s report on his victory in the Sonderbund War

7. [DUFOUR , Guillaume Henri]. Rapport général du commandant en chef des troupes fédérales sur l’armement et la campagne de 1847.Bern, Imprimerie Staempfli; Zurich, Fréd. Schulthess, 1848. 8vo. With 6 folding lithographed maps (3 with certain features hand-coloured as published, mostly to show troup locations, and with a key to the colour coding). Contemporary tanned half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Sold

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First and probably only edition of General Guillaume Henri Dufour’s report on his victory in the Sonderbund War of 1847. He led the army of the Swiss Federation to defeat the Sonderbund (the alliance that seven largely Catholic Swiss cantons had formed against the federal government) in a campaign that lasted only from 2 to 29 November and claimed fewer than a hundred lives. The cantons that opposed the federal government (Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug) agreed to accept national rule in religious matters.With an early owner’s name on front paste-down. Somewhat foxed, but otherwise in good condition, with a small tear in 2 maps and an occasional minor stain. Front hinge cracked. Important primary source for the Sonderbund War in Switzerland.

Barth 5719; WorldCat (6 copies); not in Jahns; for Dufour: NBG 15, col. 67

Eyewitness account: San Sebastian (Mozambique) besieged by the Dutch

8. DURAN, Antonio. Cercos de Mocambique, defendidos por Don Estevan de Atayde, capitan general, y governador de aquella plaça.Madrid, the widow of Alonso Martin [= Francisca de Medina], 1633. 8vo. With woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel on the title-page. 19th-century vellum with diapered floral rolls and knot work ornaments. € 17.500

Very rare first edition (the fourth complete copy known) of this important report on the three unsuccessful sieges by the Dutch of the fort of São Sebastião (Island of Mozambique), the defence of the Portuguese possessions on the coast of Southern Africa, and an important trading-post on the route to India. The work opens with a description of the island, its inhabitants, geography, and the fortifications. Then follows the extensive eyewitness account by the soldier Antonio Duran, or Durão of the three attacks on the fort in 1607 and 1608. Fine copy with some underlin-ings from the library of Charles François Garnier (fl. 1770), head of the French congregation at Lisbon.

Mendelssohn I, p. 497; Newitt, Hist. of Mozambique, pp. 169–70; Palau 77420.

Rare catalogue of military and other instruments and machines

9. FAULHABER , Johann. Geheime Kunstkammer: darin[n]en hundert allerhand Kriegs Stratagemata, auch andere unerhörte Secreta, und Machinae mirabiles zusehen, dergleichen in Europa (respectivè) wening zu finden. Ulm, Jonam Saur, 1628. 4to. Half vellum (ca. 1900). € 12.500

Very rare first and only edition of a catalogue of military and other instruments, models of machines, plans, etc., that Faulhaber displayed in the “Kunstkammer” in his house in Ulm. Johann Faulhaber (1580–1635), taught mathematics at Ulm, where his family moved around 1461, after serving as vassals of the Abbot of Fulda. He became the most important of the “Cossists”, mathematicians concerned with algebra. After publishing his first arithmetic text, Faulhaber founded his own school in Ulm in 1600, which grew into an internationally famous educational institute for higher mathematical sciences. He later added an artillery and engineer-ing school. Descartes came to study with him, and Faulhaber had a lively contact with Kepler. Applying mathematics to military engineering, the building of fortifications and the art of fire-arms, Faulhaber was also much in demand as fortifica-tion engineer, receiving commissions from the King of Sweden and many others. He published a large number of mathematical works, mostly in German, and invented a number of instruments and machines.Two different readers have checked off items in the catalogue, perhaps indicating those in their own collections.In very good condition.

Bircher A 4515; VD 17, 23:000295W (3 copies); not in Balsiger; Berlin Kat.; Jammes, Cabinets de curiosités; Murray; for Faulhaber: DSB IV, pp. 549–552.

Magnificent atlas with 80 mostly coloured manuscript maps and fortification plans

10. [FORTIFICATION ATLAS]. [Collection of 80 manuscript maps and plans of fortifications, fortified towns and fortified estates]. [The Netherlands, ca. 1624–1628]. Large folio (42.5×29.5 cm). With 80 manuscript maps and plans, 75 double-page (2 with a flap folded in), 4 larger folding (including 3 assembled from 1 1/2 sheets), and 1 also double-page in size but assembled from 2 smaller sheets. Most include a scale and 71 are coloured, mostly in opaque gouaches. They show plans of fortifications and towns in the Netherlands (51), Germany (16), Italy (3), France (4), Poland (2), Belgium (2), Malta (1) and Brazil (1). Early 18th-century(?) sprinkled tanned sheepskin, rebacked and restored. Price on request

Magnificent atlas containing 80 mostly coloured manuscript maps and plans showing fortifications, fortified cities, fortresses and castles, often represent-ing the situations during sieges in the first decade of the Thirty Years’ War (the later part of the Dutch Eighty Years’ War). Most of the maps were drawn soon after the end of the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609–1621), when the Eighty Years’ War with Spain was resumed.

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Collection of three fortification plans by T.P. van Gennep, including: (ad 1) a large and detailed plan of the fortifications of Neuf-Brisach (Alsace), executed in red and black ink, with light blue and red water-colour and decorated initials in red. With extensive ‘Verklaring’ (explanation) of the drawing-method of the profiles and the polygons.Ad 2:The second plan with the title “methode van Pagan middle roiaal” is a fortification plan after a design by Blaise Pagan (1604–1665), a famous French fortification engineer, in black ink.Ad 3: The third plan is a design of a similar fortifica-tion as the second plan, in black ink and light grey, brown and red watercolour.Plans slightly worn near the edges and minor wormholes in the large plan. In good condition.

85 precise illustrations of the use of military arms and of French military uniforms in the 17th century

12. [GIFFART, Pierre]. L’art militaire françois, contenant l’exercice & le maniement des armes, tant des officiers que des soldats, réprésenté par des figures en taille-douce dessinées d’après nature. Avec un petit abregé d’exercice comme il se fait aujourd’hui. Dédié à Monseigneur le Marechal Duc de Boufflers.“Paris” [printed in the Netherlands?], “Pierre Giffart” [publisher unknown], 1697. Small 8vo (16×10 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 85 full-page engraved illustrations (12×7.5 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 5.700

Second (probably pirated) edition of a succinct and well-illustrated military exercise book, first published by Giffart in Paris in 1696. Its 85 precisely engraved illustrations show the use of the pike, halberd, musket and in a few figures the sword by various officers and soldiers. One plate shows a grenadier with grenade in hand, just about to throw it. They are also valuable for their meticulous rendition of the military uniforms.

About 50 of the 80 maps show closely related paper stocks. The fact that so many plans show closely related watermarks suggests that most of the drawings were made together, rather than at the sites during the sieges, but they were probably based on sketches and measurements made at the sites. Four name the draftsmen, whether of the final plan or of the preliminary one on which it was based. That of Bahia in Brazil is by Goos Coeck, master military engineer; that of Bergen op Zoom by the engineer Tretaran; the 1612 map of Mülheim by Jordan von der Waghe; and that of the 14th-century fortified estate “Huis ter Eem” for the Bishopric of Utrecht by a certain J. . . . . . whose name was delib-erately obscured by an early owner who scribbled over it in ink. From the Blenheim Library, assembled by Charles Spencer (1675–1722), third Earl of Sunderland. With most maps in very good condition, a few with small tears on the edges or along the folds. The binding has been re-backed and shows other restorations. A unique and important primary source for the study of the Dutch fight for independence from Spain, the cities of the period (especially in the Netherlands) and their fortifications at a time when the newly pro-claimed Dutch Republic was revolutionizing military engineering.

Puttick & Simpson, London, 19 July 1882 (Earl of Sunderland/Blenheim Library auction), lot 6252.

Three fortification plans, including a large coloured plan of the fortifications of Neuf-Brisach

11. GENNEP, T.P. van. [Three fortification plans]. [Raamsdonk], 1798. 3 manuscript fortification plans (measuring (ad 1) 58×93 cm, (ad 2) 24.5×24.5 cm (ad 3) 29.5×37 cm) on paper. All signed: T.P. van Gennep, 1798; and one: Raamsdonk, 29 January 1798. € 950

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The present edition is much rarer than the first edition of 1696 and the Paris edition of 1698. We have located only 4 other copies, none in a French collection, though the present copy has a French provenance and probably a French binding.With engraved bookplate of the library of Baron de Marbot (1782–1854). Somewhat browned, but otherwise in very good condition. The binding is slightly worn, with some early restorations, but still good. Rare pirated second edition of a very detailed visual record of the use of arms and of French military uniforms in the 17th century.

Goldsmith BMC STC French, G403; KVK & WorldCat (4 copies); cf. Hiler 46; Lipperheide Qk1 (1696 ed.); for Giffart: Thieme-Becker XIV, pp. 9–10.

A general in the Spanish army on the war in Flanders 1601–1609, with 29 folding maps and plans

13. GIUST INIANO, Pompeo. Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. . . . Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini . . .Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architec-tural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later). € 2.950

First edition, in the original Italian, of the only his-torical work by the army general Pompeo Giustiniano (1569–1616). Giustiniano learned the art of warfare in the Netherlands under Farnese and Spinola. His work on the war in Flanders is of great importance for military history as it was the only work written from the Spanish point of view. The large strategic plans show numerous besieged cities in the Netherlands in

the years 1601 to 1609. A large part is devoted to the 1603 Siege of Ostende, where Giustiniano successfully attacked Maurits of Nassau. At that siege the Spanish army recaptured the city and the Dutch lost their last stronghold on the Flemish coast. With the bookplate of the Luton Library of John Crichton-Stuart (1793–1848). With some text leaves slightly browned but still in very good condition, most of the plates fine. The binding is also very good, with only the spine label slightly damaged. A first hand account, from the Spanish side, of the battles and sieges in Flanders during a crucial stage of the Dutch war of independence.

Nijhoff, Bibl. Hist. Neerl. III, 649; Palau 102835; STCV 6624785 (4 copies, incl. 2 incomplete).

Three militaria: on understanding the “human heart” of soldiers and on battles in the West Indies

14. GRASSE-TILLY, Francois Joseph Paul de. Memorie van den Graave de Grasse, betreffende de actien in de West-Indiën voorgevallen. [Amsterdam?, 1782]. With 8 large folding engraved nautical nautical charts. With:(2) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte schets over de noodzaaklykheid van de kennisse van het menschlyk hart voor een chef.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791.(3) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte verklaringe van verscheidene actiën tusschen de Engelsche en Fransche vlooten, geduurende den laatsten oorlog. In de West-Indiën voorgevallen.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. With 21 folding engraved plates including nautical charts showing the French and English fleets near Grenada, Basseterre, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. 3 works in 1 volume. Royal 4to (29×23.5 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. € 5.950

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Three first editions of works on naval tactics and accounts of battles between the English and French fleets in the West Indies, written (2 & 3) or translated (1) by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735–1819), the famous Dutch admiral. Ad 1: An account of the British Admiral George Rodney’s defeat of the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies in 1782, written by Count F.J.P. de Grasse-Tilly (1722–1788), the commander of the French fleet (who was imprisoned by Rodney), with extensive descriptions of naval tactics. Ad 2: An unusually early discussion of military psy-chology, namely an argument that a naval officer needs to understand the ‘’human heart’’ of his soldiers. Ad 3: An account of the naval battles and tactics of the French and English fleets in the West Indies.Sloos describes a “large paper copy”. If copies were produced on large and small paper the present copy must also be on large paper, for it has margins of about 8 cm at the fore-edge and foot. With a hole restored in first title-page, an occasional small marginal tear or water stain in the folding maps, and toward the end a few marginal browned patches, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding scuffed and the hinges of the binding have been reinforced, but the front hinge has nevertheless cracked. Most of the tooling remains clear.

Cat NHSM, pp. 925–926; Sloos, Warfare 09118 bis, 09163, 09169; cf. Sabin 28333 (French ed. of ad 1).

The cruelty of the war waged by France against the Dutch Republic

15. HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen, geopent in ses tooneelen, waer op de wisselbeurten des vereenigde staets door den Franschen oorlog gebrouwen, in historiele sinnebeelden, vertoont en beschreven zijn.Amsterdam, the author, 1674. Folio. With etched frontispiece and 6 large folding etched plates by Romeyn de Hooghe (ca. 23×35 cm), excluding the wide margins. 18th-century boards covered with paper. € 2.950

Rare first edition with fine plates emblematically illus-trating the injustice and cruelty of the war waged by Louis XIV of France against the Dutch Republic.Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) unquestionably was the most gifted and the most prolific Dutch book illustrator of the second half of the 17th century. His work displays the political grandeur and disasters of war in the Dutch Republic. Binding used and front hinge cracked; the frontispiece restored and pasted on a blank leaf; bottom marginally waterstained; few marginal wormholes. Plates clean and in strong impressions. Good copy.

Hollstein IX, p. 120, 103–108 (missing the frontispiece); Landwehr, De Hooghe Book Illustrator 38; STCN (7 copies); Verkruijsse 1674.13b.

Very rare 17th-century treatise on artillery

16. KÄSTNER , Sigmund. Vestibulum Pyroboliae, das ist kurtzgefaste Anleitung zur Artillerie-Kunst, darinnen den anfahende Liebhabern, mit einer leicht begreifflicher Methode, was wegen der Proportion und dem Gebrauch der Geschützen zu wissen, vorgetragen ist.Frankfurt, printed by Egidius Vogel for Daniel Paulli, (royal) bookseller at Copenhagen and Frankfurt, 1679. Folio (32.5×21). With woodcut publisher’s device on title-page, 2 engraved folding plates, 3 woodcut plates (1 folding) and 16 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. € 2.250

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Very rare second edition of this illustrated intro-duction to several types of artillery, giving technical descriptions of the use and dimensions of each type. It is mainly based on the works of Wallhausen and Furtenbach and was first published in 1671 in two issues by the same publisher, both rare. With a dedica-tion to the King of Denmark and Norway. The author’s name is spelled Kästnern on the title-page, while the dedication is signed Kästner.Slightly browned and binding worn. Good copy.

Jähns II, p. 1208; VD 17, 14:687522G (1 copy); WorldCat (same copy); cf. Sloos, Warfare 07021; D17 32:678516G & VD17 23:321725P (first edition).

Drilling the Austrian Imperial infantry, with 49 manuscript formation plans in colour

17. LEEUWEN, Engelhard August Baron van. Plans des neu herrauss gegebene Exercittii nach den dermahligen Kayserl: Königl: kriegs Fuss Volck eingerichtet.Austria, 1769[?]. Oblong 4to (18.5×23 cm). With title and the explanation of the key letters used in the plans written in red, the key to the colour coding in the troop formations in 8 colours, and 49 (of 55) numbered colour-coded plans of infantry exercises: 32 full-page (ca. 16.5×21 cm) , one small slip (7×7 cm) and 16 folding (ca. 21×35 cm). Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 2.500

Fascinating and graphically rich military manuscript in German with 49 colour-coded plans of infantry exercises for the Imperial Royal Austrian army, based on the manual Militaire Regulament für gesammte Kaiserl. Königliche Cavalerie-Regimenter in Betreff des Exercitii zu Pferd und zu Fuss (published by Trattner in 1765 with only 9 engraved plates). The present plans can be considered a companion to Trattner’s pub-lication, containing instructions for the placement, positions and exercises of the various regiments, battalions and companies of the army: the first and second grenadier company, “Leib-Compagnie” and the companies of “Knor Senior”, Wappler, Neumüller, Dichtelt, Major Engelhard, etc.

With 6 plans torn out and the border at the foot of plan 38 torn off (not affecting the plan), but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed, spine damaged and restored. Remarkable colour formation plans for infantry exercises in the Imperial army.

The first systematic work on military architecture

18. LORINI, Buonaiuto. Delle fortificationi, libri cinque. Ne’ quali si mostra con le piu facili regole la scienza con la pratica, di fortificare le citta, & altri luoghi sopra diversi siti. Venice, Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1597 (colophon: 1596). Folio. With engraved vignette on the title-page, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and hundreds of woodcut illustrations and figures in the text, mostly half- to full-page, several even double-page. Contemporary limp vellum. € 3.250

First edition of “the first systematic course of instruc-tion in all aspects of military architecture, and the first work to give measured plans in its illustrations” (Breman). Buonaiuto Lorini (ca. 1538-ca. 1611), a Florentine nobleman, had a great reputation in the 16th-century for his intelligent fortifications and the way he fiercely defended cities. He was employed by the kings of France and Spain, as well the Doges of Venice. The present work contains “a wealth of practical detail” and a “long and detailed section on the machine tools of construction . . .” (Breman).This first edition consists of two issues, differing in the preliminaries only. According to Cockle, only a very few copies were printed, “and these for presentation to certain Christian princes only, each having a special Dedicatory Epistle”. Our copy has a dedicatory letter to Fernando de Medici, dated May 1597. With the bookplate of Comes de Solms. Good copy with ample margins of this pivotal work on military architecture.

Breman, 163; Breman, One hundred books on military architecture, 48; Bury & Breman p. 62; Cockle 791 (“of the greatest rarity”); Jähns p. 845; Jordan 2220; Riccardi I, L-cols. 52–53; cf. BMC STC Italian, p. 393 (ed. 1596).

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Manual of French military science, produced by order of Louis XIV

19. LOSTELNEAU, Colbert de. Le mareschal de bataille. Contenant le maniement des armes. Les evolutions. Plusieurs bataillons, tant contre l’infanterie que contre la cavalerie. Divers ordres de batailles . . .Paris, Toussainct Quinet (printed by Estienne Migon), 1647. Folio. With 48 full-page engraved plates of French infan-try-men exercising with musket (35) and pike (13), after the models of Jacques de Gheyn, 400 full-page (or larger folding) woodcut diagrams of battle formations, all printed in red and black, some also in yellow, with troops repre-sented by red and black dots and a few smaller woodcut illustrations. Dark brown gold-tooled calf (ca. 1700?). € 6.500

First edition of a practical manual for use of the French army commanders, composed by the French Marshall and Commander of the French Royal Guards by order of Louis XIV, who wanted to establish a strictly uniform military science for his whole army. Jähns curtly mentions the work (rather chauvinisticly) as an imitation of Wallhausen’s works, which may be partly true as far as basic military principles are concerned, but for its numerous practical applications, and especially for its rich illustration of 17th century French army tactics, Lostelneau’s work stands on its own for its original con-tributions to the documentation of 17th-century military practice. It is also of special interest as an example of early colour printing in books, with no less than 400 colour printed plates. Intended at the time as a purely practical aid, the arrays of coloured dots in patterns of various symmetries can now also be appreciated as rather modernistic decorative art. Restoration to foot margin of title-page, a few leaves slightly browned or waterstained, but otherwise in good condition. Binding slightly rubbed, with minor damage to the spine and edges. Magnificent, thorough and well-illustrated manual documenting mid-17th-century French military practice, and a feast of decora-tive coloured patterns for the modern eye.

Jähns II, p. 1293; Lipperheide 2080; Sloos, Warfare 10003.

Four unpublished letters by the Polish commander-in-chief relating to the siege of Vienna

20. LUBOMIRSKY, Hieronymus Augustin. [4 letters, signed, to Imre Thököly].Vienna, army camp Angram, and army camp Wolkersdorff, 25 July - 21 August 1683. 4 folded leafs. In Latin. Each letter with a red seal. € 38.000

Four original letters in Latin written by Lubomirsky’s secretary and signed by the Commander-in-chief of the Polish army, Fürst Hieronymus Augustin Lubomirsky (+1706), all addressed to Imre Thököly, the leader of the Hungarian Calvinists, an ally of the Turcs, on the eve of perhaps the most important and famous battle of the 17th century, the siege of Vienna and the battle of the Kahlenberg in August-September 1683, where the Turcs were stopped at their second endeavour to conquer Europe.The present letters are of the utmost importance because they testify of an until recently unknown, and apparently secret attempt by the famous Polish King Jan III Sobiesky to reconcile Thököly with the emperor and to keep him from giving continuing support to the Turcs! The king made use for this attempt of the well-known Polish Magnate, and his ‘Landtagsmarchal’ Fürst Hieronymus Lubomirsky. These letters have never been published, they are only mentioned by F. Vilmos in his article. Some browning and creasing at the margins. In very good condition.

Faaknoi Vilmos, in: Szilagyi Sandor, Szazadok. Magyar Töetenelmi Tarsulet Közlönye (Budapest 1877), p. 63; cf. Wurtzbach XVI, p. 112.

The manufacture of incendiary shells, with stunning large folding colour drawings of equipment

21. [MANUSCRIP T - ARTILLERY ]. Instruction zur Erzeugnung der gepressten Brandsatz-kegel vom Jahre 1844.[Verona?], 1844. Folio. Manuscript in German, written in a neat German gothic script iin dark brown ink on paper, with headings in a round-hand Latin script, with 3 large folding illustrations of stamping presses and other equipment (32×60.5 cm) in black ink and coloured gouaches. Contemporary shell-marbled wrappers. € 5.000

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A manuscript on the manufacture of “carcass” incendiary shells, with stunning measured drawings of the stamping presses and other equipment used, as well as components of the shells themselves. The text was most likely origi-nally written for an institution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, most likely in or outside Vienna (which is mentioned several times in the text), perhaps for the Theresian Military Academy, established in 1751. The carefully made copy may have been made for students at the Stabsschule (military staff school) in Verona, where the drawings were made, two by named officers: Corporal Grill and Corporal Dittrich. Verona was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1814 to 1866 and formed a strategically important military outpost. The beautiful illustrations, which would allow one to perfectly recon-struct the historical equipment, are attached to blank leaves at the end of the manuscript, so that they can be folded out for viewing while reading the text.In very good condition, the wrappers with some light wear.

For the Artillerie-Hauptschule: Gatti et al., Geschichte des K.K. Bombadier-Corps, der K.K. Artillerie-Hauptschule und der K.K. Artillerie-Akademie, 1786–1869 (1905).

Practical geometry, fortification and artillery ca. 1750

22. [MANUSCRIP T - MILITARY ]. Geometria of meetkonst . . . Vestingbou of fortificatie . . . [Artillerie]. [Netherlands, ca. 1750]. 3 related works in 1 volume. Folio. With numerous mathematical diagrams, fortification plans and measured drawings of artillery and ammunition, including 12 full-page watercolour drawings (3 fortification plans and 9 beautifully rendered canons) and many more watercolour drawings in the text. With a large folding fortifi-cation plan tipped in, a large folding artillery drawing loosely inserted, and several smaller drawings tipped in or loosely inserted. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. € 6.500

Detailed and beautifully illustrated manuscript in ink divided into 3 sections on practical geometry and mensuration, fortification and artillery, illustrated with numerous original pen drawings and watercolour drawings, including 9 finely made full-page illustra-tions of canons.

The text on fortification refers to various earlier authors. Although it refers to most only by their last names and mentions only one specific title, they can be identified with reasonable certainty as Blaise François Comte de Pagan, Adrianus Metius, Gerard Melder, Allain Manesson Mallet (it explicitly mentions Den arbeid van Mars), Sébastien Le Prestre Marquis de Vauban and Bartholomeus Bruist, but no later authors. The latest certain work is therefore Bruist (1705) though “Pagan” probably refers to the Dutch transla-tion (1738).In very good condition. The binding is somewhat soiled. A very informative military manuscript, beauti-fully and extensively illustrated.

On manoeuvres and formations for rifle companies and battalions, well illustrated

23. [MANUSCRIP T - MILITARY ]. Plans deren Maneuvres der koenigl-spanischen Tropen[:] Plans deren Maneuvres[,] Formacionen und Colocacionen deren Officiers und Sergenten wie es bey dem löblichen Schweizer-Regiment Baron De Reding geübt wird.Madrid, 1772. Oblong Imperial 4to (29.5×40 cm). Extensively illustrated manuscript on paper, written mostly in German in brown ink. With large armorial device on title-page, in colour, with the crowned impaled arms of Sicily (dexter) and Austria (sinister); a preliminary leaf with 2 rows of 6 colour pictures; and XVI numbered leaves with colour plans of battle-formations, with 37 numbered marginal drawings in brown ink with grey and yellow washes on 7 of these leaves showing details of gunlocks and tools; and some of the leaves with colour drawings of landscapes with mountains, lakes, etc. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, decorated paper sides. € 6.950

Beautifully drawn and coloured complete manuscript on the manoeuvres and battle formations for rifle companies and battalions, based on the army manoeu-vres taught by the famous Swiss Colonel, Baron Aloys De Reding, when he served in the Spanish army. The drawings of details of gunlocks and tools are more or

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must have been produced for an important person, probably a head of the marine or an official at the court. The manuscript gives a complete survey of the size and organisation of the French navy of the Ancien Regime in 1732 and must have been top secret at the time!From the library of the well-known art historian and book collector Henri Beraldi (1849–1931). The manu-script is generally in fine condition, with only an occa-sional minor spot or small stain. The binding is slightly worn at the hinges, head and foot of spine and on the raised bands, but is also generally fine. A remarkable and luxurious manuscript providing a wealth of infor-mation on the French Royal Navy in 1732.

Bibliotheque Henri Beraldi II (Paris, 1934), 168; Sotheby’s, London, Sale 16 & 17 december 1963, lot 223.

Rare first edition of a well-illustrated Italian military manual with illustrations of two “tanks”

25. MARTENA, Giovanni Batista. Flagello militare diviso in quattro parti. La prima tratta de’ trabucchi. La seconda de’ petardi. La terza de’ burlotti, e fuochi artificiali di mare, e di terra. La quarta di mine, contramine.Naples, Novello de Bonis, 1676. 4to. With engraved frontis-piece, engraved author’s portrait and 18 full-page numbered engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. € 7.500

Rare first edition of a well-illustrated practical military manual on shooting and various exploding weapons and mortars in warfare. The plates are all in strong and clear impressions and fully illustrate the author’s teaching. Very interesting and peculiar are the two plates of two heavily armoured vehicles (a sort of tanks). Old library-label partly removed, some slight marginal foxing. Fine copy.

Ayala, Bibl. militare Italiana,, p. 147; Riccardi I, p. 122.

less arbitrarily scattered over several leaves, wherever space allowed. The title-page and several other leaves have their titles on a banderole, sometimes with addi-tional decoration.With the early owner’s inscription of Joannes Josephus Real. With two leaves deatched, but otherwise in good condition, with a couple leaves tattered at the edges and an occasional smudge, spot or small marginal stain. The binding is rubbed, has a couple holes in the backstrip and has come loose from the bookblock at the front hinge. Interesting unpublished manuscript on military formations, well illustrated.

Splendid manuscript on the state, condition and organization of the French Royal navy in 1732,

from the library of Henri Beraldi

24. [MANUSCRIP T - MILITARY - FRENCH ROYAL]. [Binding title:] Abregé de la marine du Roy 1732.[Paris?, 1732]. 13.5×19 cm.. Manuscript in brown-black, red and blue ink on vellum, some of the lettering and borders gilt. With a beautiful frontispiece painting in coloured gouaches (14×9.5 cm) pasted on the page facing the opening of the text, showing a small warship at a shipyard in a small harbour being repaired by workmen. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled fillets on boards and board edges, richly gold-tooled frame, gilt edges.. [See image on inside backcover] € 95.000

Splendid vellum manuscript on the condition and organisation of the French Royal Navy of King Louis XV in the year 1732, including maritime data on the French colonies in Canada, Louisiana and the West Indies. The manuscript is beautifully calligraphed in a formal roman and italic in brown-black, red and blue, sometimes with gold covering the ink, with 2 decorated initials in gold over red. The use of the high quality vellum, the fine gouache illustration, the lavishly executed calligraphy and the beautiful contemporary binding, indicate that the manuscript

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First and only edition of a treatise on naval mines, an early work by the French naval officer Jacques-Philippe Mérigon de Montgéry (1781–1839), later well-known as a military engineer, pyrotechnician and chronicler of the history of rockets. The folding plate is very finely engraved, pointing the way toward the steel engraving that stood poised to take over the high end of the market for book illustration. With library stamps (that on the title-page cancelled). The present copy lacks the half-title (with the printer’s name on the back) and the last leaf, with a two-page list of books offered by Bachlier, but includes the folding plate, which appears to be lacking in the two copies that have been scanned for the Internet. Otherwise in very good condition, with occasional foxing (mostly restricted to the title-page). The front hinge is cracked and worn, with the head and foot of the backstrip damaged, but the binding is otherwise very good.

Polak 6795; for Montgéry: DSB IX, pp. 491–492.

First extensive naval history with 44 engraved maps & illustrations

28. MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy. Orbis maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia: in qua inventiones navium, earundem partes, armamenta. instructiones classium, navigationes, prælia maritima, arma, stratagemata.Dijon, Pierre Palliot, 1643. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (36×22 cm). With a letterpress title-page in red and black, an engraved title-page by Nicolas Spirinx, 1 folding engraved view, 23 engraved maps and 20 other engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 9.500

Richly illustrated military work showing battle formations with flag exercises

26. MARZIOLI, Francesco. Precetti militari.(Colophon: Bologna, heirs of Domenico Barbieri, 1670.) Folio. With engraved title-page, portrait of Ferdinand Maria Duke of Bavaria, both engraved by L. Tinti after Dominicus à Bricio, and 90 engraved plates, many full-page. 19th-cen-tury half cloth. € 4.750

First edition of a superb and richly illustrated military manual intended for practical use. The second edition appeared in 1673. The first part of the work deals with the correct exercising and handling of pikes and muskets. The text and fine illustrations elucidate how to load, aim and fire the muskets. The second part deals with barrack-ground exercises and battle-formations for small battalions with the plates showing the correct offensive and defensive formations. Binding slightly worn at corner and edges. Good copy.

Ayala, Bibl. militare Italiana, 40; Lipperheide 2086; Thimm p. 185.

Treatise on naval mines, by a leading French naval officer and military engineer

27. MONTGÉRY, Jacques-Philippe Mérigon de. Mémoire sur les mines flottantes et les petards flottans, ou machines infernales maritimes. Paris, Bachlier, libraire pour la marine (printed by De Fain), 1819. 8vo. With a finely engraved folding copperplate of a ship being blown up by a mine (16.5×17.5 cm). Lacking the half-title and the final leaf with the publisher’s list of books, but with the folding plate, often lacking. Contemporary half tree calf. € 800

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First and only edition of the first extensive naval and maritime history, here in its second issue with the ded-ication to Louis XIII replaced by the rarer one (dated 27 March 1643, although Louis died only on 14 May) to Pierre Seguier (1588–1672), chancellor of France. It is divided into two parts of fifty chapters each. The first part covers ancient times (to the great discoveries of the Renaissance), emphasizing the many naval battles, but also presenting the development of navigation and geography. The second part covers recent voyages of discovery and topographical description, drawing on numerous naval and maritime sources, including travel journals by European explorers. Only minor browning and a small tear affecting a few words of text in one leaf; one map is printed upside down; binding rubbed and restored. A very good copy, with generous margins.

Alden & Landis. 643/85; Borba de Moraes, pp. 597–598; Bosch 98; JCB II, pp. 307–308; Nordenskiöld 152; Polak 10650; Rodrigues 1715; Sabin 50723.

Important Rangaku treatise on naval gunnery

29. MOTOKI, Shoei. Kaigan hojutsu biyo.Edo, Kyoto, & Osaka, Yamazakiya Seishichi e.a., Kaei 5 [= 1852]. 5 volumes. (26×18 cm). With many large woodcut illustrations of diagrams, coastal fortresses, canons, mortars, bullets, balls and (war-) ships. Contemporary black paper wrappers with red painted title on front cover, bound in the traditional Japanese manner, kept in slipcase with ivory clasps. € 12.500

Very interesting survey of coastal defence, direc-tives and guidelines for building coastal fortresses. The work is translated from the Dutch by Motoki Shoei (1767–1822), with a commentary by Nunokawa Tsuboku. The Dutch edition, Gerrit van der Tollen’s, Het nieuwe licht der bosschieterye, zynde een volkomen onderweyzinge van het konstapelschap, zo ter zee als te lande, was published in Vlissingen in 1701. Motoki was a member of an important Nagasaki interpreter family and published his translation in a period during which “Dutch-style military science was adopted, the manufacture of canons and powder was

begun, and Western-style artillery batteries were placed on the sea coast” (Goodman).Good set. Some marginal wormholes. An interesting Rangaku treatise on naval gunnery.

Goodman, The Dutch Impact on Japan, p. 129 & 165; not in Kerlen, Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Japanese Books and Maps.

Large wall map of Rhine valley for the war of the Austrian succession. Fine copy printed

on silk and beautifully coloured

30. OET TINGER , Johann Friedrich. Theatrum Belli Serenissimæ Domus Austriacæ, contra Gallos, . . . seu Tabula Geographica Cursus Rheni . . . cum Regionibus cis Rhenanis, . . . - Neuester Schauplaz des Krieges an dem Ober Rhein und in denen Niederlanden. Oder Lauff des Rheins . . .Augsburg, Matthaeus Seutter, [ca. 1746]. Large engraved wall map (114×165 cm) printed on silk from 6 large copper plates (each plate measuring about 57×29 cm). With the Latin title in a large decorative cartouche above left and the German title in another below left. Further with a large decorated compass rose above right, two scales below the German title cartouche and scales of latitude and longitude in the border. Coloured by a contemporary hand. [See image on inside frontcover] € 18.000

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A large theatre of war wall map of the Rhine valley, richly decorated, crisply printed on silk and beau-tifully coloured by a contemporary hand. It was produced during the War of the Spanish Succession (1740–1748). At a scale of about 1:405,000, the map covers the Rhine River from the Swiss-German border about 50 kilometres west of its source at Lake Constance (the Bodenzee) to its mouths at the North Sea in South Holland, and includes northwest Switzerland, midwest and southwest Germany, northeast France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the southern part of Netherlands, stopping just south of Amsterdam. It shows political boundaries, the fortifi-cations of the cities, topographic features, woods and sand banks.It is tempting to think the map might have been coloured by Bartholomaeus Seuter (1678–1754), an Augsburg faience painter, silk dyer, engraver and sup-posedly also goldsmith, who worked out of his own house and may have been Matthaeus’s cousin. It came from the Royal House of Wittelsbach. A splendid theatre of war wall map with decorative car-touches and compass rose, printed on silk and beau-tifully coloured. In fine condition, with the colouring fresh and bright.

Seifert, Die Karte als Kunstwerk; Tooley, Dict. of Mapmakers, p. 471; IKAR (3 copies, all apparently on paper).

Fortification against hostile artillery

31. REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige. Amsterdam, for the author by Joannes Punt, [1759]. 4to. With 3 large folding engraved plates (ca. 49×26 cm) by Joannes Punt after drawings by the author and 2 engravings in text by D. van Duffel. Contemporary marbled calf. € 5.950

First and only edition of a rare work by the Dutch engineer Cornelis Redelykheid (1728–1787) on how to improve the masonry and the composition of strong-holds against hostile artillery and mines as well as the protection of their vaults to prevent the striking of heavy bombs. The very large engraved plates with technical drawings depict a plan of a fortress and several cross-sections of different parts such as vaults. Cornelis Redelykheid worked as a young man in his father’s shop, who was a mason. Later he became a capable hydraulic, mechanical and fortification engineer. Redelykheid wrote many works on engi-neering and he was the inventor of the lift-lock with sliding locks in 1773 for which he received 1000 gold ducates of the Dutch government.With a library stamp on the title-page, some faint foxing in the margins of the plates, not affecting the illustrations. Very good copy, with wide margins on thick paper.

Bierens de Haan 3892; STCN (6 copies).

The army of the British Empire in 44 chomolithographed plates

32. RICHARDS, Walter. Her Majesty’s army[:] a descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the Queen’s forces, from their first establishment to the present time.London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., [1890?]. 3 volumes. 4to. With 3 letterpress title-pages in red and black, 3 chromolithographed title-pages and 44 chro-molithographed plates (including 3 frontispieces) by Godfrey Douglas Giles, H. Bunnett and Frank Feller. Contemporary uniform maroon morocco by J. Baker & son, Clifton, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Sold

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Extensive account of the various regiments in the army of Queen Victoria of England. With 44 full-page beautifully chromolithographed plates depicting a variety of divisions in the regiments of Queen’s forces, such as the royal artillery, the horse guards, the Bengal cavalry, Victorian forces, the Welsh regiment, the Royal marines, etc. It gives an excellent view of their uniforms, firearms, swords, horses, non-uniformed assistants, etc. The two volumes for the regular forces form a separate part in two volumes, numbered I and II, while the third volume has no number but is dis-tinguished by the addition of the words “Indian and colonial forces” in its title. Each volume with the engraved armorial bookplate of Harry Broke. With 2 plates slightly tattered along the edge, and an occasional small marginal tear or other minor defect, but otherwise in fine condition. Bindings with a few minor scratches and small abrasions, but also otherwise fine. Fine chromolithographs of British and British colonial troops.

Two important manuals on fortification

33. RUSE, Hendrik. Versterckte vesting, uytgevonden in velerley voorvallen, en geobserveert in dese laetste oorloogen, soo in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, als in Vranckryck, Duyts-lant, Italien, Dalmatien, Albanien, en die daer aengelegen landen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. With etched title-page and 8 double-page etched plates.With: (2) RUSE, Hendrik. Aenwysinge der misver-standen van G. Medler, begaen in sijne ‘Instructie van

de fortificatien’, in welck hy de sustenuen van H. Ruse in ‘t verstercken der hedendaeghse fortificatien, pooght te wederleggen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1658. With large woodcut vignette on the title-page and folding etched plate. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary vellum. € 5.500

First edition of a basic manual on fortification by the Dutch officer Hendrik Ruse, or Baron von Rusenstein (1624–1679). He was the first to break with the Dutch tradition in fortification and to introduce new elements based on his personal experiences as while serving in several armies abroad. Herewith he came into conflict not only with Gerard Melder, the head of the fortifications in the city of Utrecht but also with Freitag in Germany. Melder answered with a manual of his own, and attacked Ruse in his korte en klare instructie from 1658. Ruse, in his turn, retorted with the Aenwijsinghe der misverstanden van G. Melder, which is added here to the main work. Good copies; ad 1 with old owner’s manuscript entry on title-page.

Ad 1: Sloos, Warfare 08034; STCN (2 copies); ad 2: Sloos, Warfare 08039; STCN (3 copies, with slightly different fingerprint).

On the use of artillery in the 16th and 17th century

34. SARDI, Pietro. L’Artiglierria, divisa in tre libri.Venice, Giovanni Guerriglia spese dell’ Autore, 1621. Folio. With engraved title-page including the portrait and coat of arms of the author, 9 engraved plates, and 18 large engrav-ings in the text, several full-page. Contemporary vellum. € 5.500

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First edition of a rare early 17th century work on the use of artillery in warfare. Pietro Sardi, a military scientist from Rome, is best known for his first military publication “Corona imperiale dell’ archittetura militare” from 1618, which also was trans-lated into German. The present work is much rarer but also of greater importance, as extensive works on the use of artillery on the battle-field were relatively few in number in the 16th and early 17th century, and Italian authors paved the way in this section of military science like they did in many others. The book is richly illustrated showing the construction and working of large artillery. Re-cased with new endpapers; title-page slightly stained and frayed at edges; right lower corner in second half of the book restored, at last two leaves just touching the text. Good copy with the bookplate of Mark Dineley.

Cockle 688; cf. Jähns, pp. 1098–1099.

Two French works on swordfighting and against dueling

35. SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l’espee Francoise.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved heraldic device on title-pag.With: (2) SAVARON, Jean . Traicté contre les duels. Avec l’edict de Philippes le Bel, de l’an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé. Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer’s woodcut compasses device on title-page. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. € 9.500

Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of Savaron’s work on the history of the sword in France, its use and the right to bear a sword as arms. Savaron dedicated the book to King Louis XIII, “the sword of the world”.

Ad 2: Rare first edition of a curious treatise against the mania and dangers of dueling. This mania had grown so great that in the preceding 20 years about 8000 noblemen had been killed by their opponents on the dueling ground. Authorities and critics bemoaned the dueling mania in part because the de facto toleration of the practice seemed to concede that the nobility was above the law, subject only to a code of conduct of its own. Duellers disturbed the public peace, making them obstacles to the goal of imposing civility and legal uniformity on society, a crucial task of early modern state building. The real cost of dueling measured by the loss of lives also made it a major concern. Savaron could only estimate the figures, but the bloodletting was clearly significant. He commented that there were “few or no noble houses exempted from this carnage” (p. 49).With several owners’ inscriptions and a 19th-century bookplate. Slightly browned, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and spine damaged, but structurally sound. Two early complimentary treatises, on sword fighting and against dueling.

Cionarescu XVII, 61664 & 61665; Cockle, addendum 7 (ad 1); Levi and Gelli, p. 412 (ad 2); Thimm, p. 257 (ad 1 & 2); WorldCat (6 & 8 copies).

Views of the Crimean War, which arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East

36. SIMPSON, William. [Lithographed title-page:] Der Kriegsschauplatz in der Krimm. [Wrapper-title:] Der orientalische Kriegsschauplatz in authentischen Darstellungen. Karlsruhe, J. Veith, [ca. 1855]. In 8 instalments. Large folio (53×38 cm). With a multiple-tinted lithographed title-page, 31 multiple-tinted lithographed views (25×35 cm) and 2 leaves with 3 explanatory views. Further with four pages with explanatory letter press text. Loose leaves in the 8 pub-lisher’s printed paper wrappers. Sold

Very rare first and only German edition of a series of beautiful multiple-tinted lithographed views of the Crimean War (1853–1856) by the pioneer war artist William Simpson. Simpson was dispatched to recorded the naval battles in the Baltic Sea and went on to Balaklava in November 1854 to make accurate sketches on the spot. These drawings eventually were shown to Queen Victoria, who became a steady patron for the painter. 80 of these sketches were published as The seat of war in the East (1855–1856), with text by George Brackenbury. For the present German edition 31 of these plates were selected and published with new captions and German translations of the explan-atory text, in 8 instalments of 4 plates, here all in their original wrappers.

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The Crimean War was a war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East.Text leaves browned, but with the plates in very good condition only some very minor damage to the corners. The wrappers slightly tattered around the edges, otherwise also very good. Very rare German edition of a series of views of the Crimean War in original wrappers.

KVK/WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Abbey, Travel 237; Bobins collection 162; for Simpson: Millar, “Simpson, William (1823–1899)”, in: ODNB (online ed.).

Revolutionary ideas on fortification, with 48 splendid plates

37. TENSINI, Francesco. La fortificatione guardia difesa et espugnatione delle fortezzi esperimentata in diverse guerre.Venetia, Antonio Bariletti, 1630. Large folio (38×27.5 cm). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, and 48 fine engraved fortification plates (11 double-page), by Fillippo Sadeler, numerous woodcut decorated initials and cast fleurons. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, later endpapers. € 4.500

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Beautifully and extensively illustrated early work on the art and science of fortification, first published in 1624 and here in the 1630 issue of the 1624 edition. As the title indicates, it discusses the fortification, defence and conquest of fortresses used in various wars.Francesco Tensini (1581–1632 or later) had been a military engineer and officer in the service of the Duke of Bavaria, of the Spanish under Spinola against the Dutch before the Twelve Years’ Truce of 1609, and of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. When he wrote the present work in 1624 he was in the government of the city of Venice. Jähns suggests Tensini’s theories on fortification resemble those of his countryman Alessandro di Grotti, who had worked with him in the Bavarian army, suggesting they may have developed some of their innovative ideas together. But Van den Heuvel points out influences from Dutch fortification. The Dutch introduced many new ideas in fortification during their war of independence from Spain, and Tensini experienced them as an opponent in at least the years 1600 to 1605.With the top 3 mm of the engraved title-page shaved, but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins, with only an occasional marginal water stain. The binding has been rebacked, as noted, and shows some damage and some restorations, but remains good. A classic practical treatise on fortifica-tion, with 48 splendid plates.

ICCU (8 copies); Jähns, p. 1098; Jordan 3743; Riccardi I, II, col. 514 (Tensini 1.2); cf. Cockle 813 (1624 issue, noting only 44 plates).

King Sebastian’s defeat in Morocco in 1574

38. [TEXEIRA, José]. Historia De bello Africano.Nuremberg, Catharina Gerlachin and Heirs Johannus Montanus, 1581. 8vo. With 1 folded engraved map (10.2×15.6 cm) of Morocco, 1 folded engraved plate (16×10.3 cm). Modern boards. € 4.000

Very rare second Latin translation of the account of King Sebastian’s disastrous campaign in Morocco. The Portuguese king emulated the ideal of medieval knights of defending the faith against infidels and establishing a Christian government in the Holy Land. He began implementing his grandiose plans by crusading against the Muslims closest to Portugal, namely in Morocco. Despite brave opposition from the Portuguese, their army was too small to withstand Abdelmelekh’s forces. The folded engraved plate depicts the battle order of the army of Abdelmelekh. Few marginal annotations and underlinings. Good copy of this rare and important source of Moroccan/Portuguese history.

Adams F-1009; Palau 328857.

Medieval war machinery, with 97 woodcuts

39. VALTURIUS, Robertius. De re militari libris XII multò emaculatius, ac picturis, quae plurimae in eo sunt, elegantioribus expressum, quàm cum Veronae inter initia artis chalcographicae anno Mcccclxxxiii invulgaretur. Paris, Chr. Wechel, 1532, Folio. With woodcut printer’s device on title-page and verso last blank, 97 woodcuts of military engines and constructions, many full-page, and numerous woodcut ornamental initials throughout the text. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. € 9.500

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First French edition of a famous treatise on the art of war in twelve books. Written circa 1446–1456, it was first printed in Verona in 1472 and is based on the ancient military writers. The most appealing aspect is the series of finely executed illustrations: 97 woodcuts in firm outline, showing military engines and constructions, including catapults, rams, cannon, grenades, scaling ladders, water raising machines, a clepsydra or water clock (with 17 hours marked on dial), bridges and rafts, paddle-boats etc. These cuts originated in the first edition, was the first book illus-trated by an Italian artist, with blocks attributed to Matteo dei Pasti or his school. Those in the present edition were made by Mercurius Jollat, for his mark occurs on some of the cuts. He made reversed copies, based on the 1483 second edition, adding some details but retaining the strong outline characteristic of the Italian example.Fly-leaves made from a 15th-century manuscript leaf. Slight waterstaining and few small tears in margins of a few leaves. Very good copy of an interesting work on war machinery.

Harvard French 535; cf. Cockle 501 (Verona 1472); Fairfax Murray, French 560 (Paris 1534).

The military strategies of Hannibal and the Romans in original manuscript and letterpress version

40. VAUDONCOURT, Frédéric François Guillaume, baron de. [Histoire des campagnes d`Annibal en Italie pendant la Deuxième Guerre Punique].[Ca. 1812]. 4 volumes (3 text and 1 atlas). 4to. With the text volumes in a neat handwriting, in brown ink. The atlas comprising 42 folding watercolour and pen & ink drawings on paper, mostly maps, plans, battle formations, one large table, one large map of Italy (66×62 cm). Contemporary half calf.

With: (2) VAUDONCOURT, Frédéric François Guillaume, baron de. [Letterpress:] Histoire des campagnes d`Annibal en Italie pendant la Deuxième Guerre Punique. Milan, Imprimerie Royale, 1812. 3 volumes (without the atlas). 4to. With a large folding table in volume III. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers. Sold

Unique set consisting of both the manuscript and the letterpress version, on the military expeditions and tactics of the Carthaginians led by Hannibal against the Romans in Italy and the Mediterannean during the Second Punic War (218 - 202 BC) by Frédéric François Guillaume de Vaudoncourt (1772–1845), French Brigade General and military historian. The drawings in the manuscript, in watercolour and pen and ink, are very detailed and precise, depicting

sieges, battle plans & army formations, maps and Roman and Carthaginian army camps. The book, here in its first edition, was issued in a limited edition and dedicated to Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon de France, Viceroy of Italy (1781–1824), stepson of Napoleon.Manuscript in very good condition, with red circular monogram stamp on first endpapers in all 4 volumes. Bindings restored; large stain in upper part of plate XLVIII (most of the drawings have soiling on upper part verso). The letterpress version also in very good condition (partly unopened), but lacking the atlas volume and with the spine of the first volume restored. Unique set.

Cf. NBG XXXXV, cols. 1022–1025.

On the campaigns of José Malcampo in the Philippines, with a lithographed portrait and map

41. VAZQUEZ DE ALDANA, Antonio and Valentin Gonzalez SERRANO. España en la Oceanía, (páginas de la guerra de Joló) … (Back of half-title): Manilla, printed by El Porvenir Filipino, [1876]. Large 4to (30.5×22 cm). With a full-page litho-graphed portrait of José Malcampo by J. Coronel, and two copies of a large double-tinted lithographed map of the Sulu Archipelago, dated 1876. Slightly later 19th-century black half morocco, with gold-tooled spine. € 3.500

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First and only edition of a work on the campaigns of José Malcampo (1828–1880), who was the Spanish Governor General of the Philippines from June 1874 until February 1877. It primarily concentrates on the battle against the Muslim outlaws, known as the Moro Pirates, on Mindanao, and the history of their presence in the southern Philippines, and the conquest of the city of Jolo occupied by the Sultanate of Sulu. The work is divided into two parts, the first written by Valentin Gonzalez Serrano and the second by Antonio Vazquez de Aldana (their names are added to the parts in manuscript).The work is edited by Botella y Molina and printed by El Porvenir Filipino, a press that also published a newspaper of the same name from 1865 to 1876.The work has substantial contemporary inscriptions, noting that this copy was given by Virto “Regalada por Virto”. These inscriptions are slightly shaved, so it was probably still in a temporary binding or wrappers and was given its permanent binding soon after. With quires 17 and 18 of the second part bound at the end of the first part. In very good condition, with the descenders in the printed signature below the portrait shaved, a tear in the first copy of the map and in the second half-title, the margins of the second copy of the map trimmed and with a couple small holes affecting only the open ocean, and some stains in the lower margin of a few leaves. Spine very slightly rubbed.

Palau 353903; Retana, Obras Filipinas 571; Vindel 2592; WorldCat (9 copies); not in Robertson, Bibl. of the Philippine Islands.

Very rare Franeker edition of a classic infantry text book, with 34 plates

42. WALLHAUSEN, Johann Jacobi von. L’art militaire pour l’infanterie. . .Franeker, Uldrick Balck. [1615 or soon after]. Folio. With title in a richly engraved frame; Maurits’s engraved coat-of-arms for the dedication; engraved folding table; and illustrations on 34 (of 35) engraved plates (28 double-page or folding and 6 single-page) after Johann Theodor de Bry (and Jacques Gheyn?). Lacking plate 20, but still one of the most complete copies known. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, blind-tooled fillets on boards. Sold

First edition published in the Netherlands, trans-lated into French, of the famous first text book for the training, rules of warfare and discipline of the infantry. It was first published in German in 1615, by Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623) at Oppenheim, who was responsible for the battle plans and made the French translation, published there in the same year. Plates A-D are said to be after Jacques de Gheyn. The present French edition, dedicated to Prince Maurits, appeared at Franeker in the Netherlands in 1615 or soon after.The copperplates engraved for the present edition show armour and weapons, 84 figures of soldiers demonstrating the use of the musquet and pike and plans of troops in battle formations. These and the engraved frame on the title-page are copied from those used in 1615 German edition, but in many copies of that edition the 30 plates with troop formations or even all 34 plates are lacking, so at least the former may have been added post-publication.Lacking plate 20, but with 2 plates numbered 22, giving the same number as most editions, and with some marginal worm holes, slightly affecting the image in 1 plate. Otherwise in good condition, with an occasional minor tear or faint water stain. Upper right corner of front board damaged and a couple tears in the parchment, binding slightly stained. Rare Franeker edition of a classic practical infantry handbook.

Sloos, Warfare (2008) 05007 (1 copy, lacking 12 plates); STCN (1 copy, prelims incomplete, no details of plates); Thimm, p. 329 (noting 35 plates); WorldCat (2 copies, lacking 1 and 16 plates).

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