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The Southern Netherlands reconquered

(SALAZAR, Diego de).
Tratado, de re militari, hecho a manera de dialogo, que passo entre los illustrissimos señores Don Gonçalo  Fernandez de Cordova llamado Gran Capitan, duque de  Sessa, &c. y Don Pedro Manrrique de Lara, duque de  Najara: en el qual se contienen muchos exemplos de  grandes principes, y señores: y excellentes avisos, y  figuras de guerra muy provechoso para cavalleros, capitanes, y soldados.

Title surrounded by decorative woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on the title; large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last  blank; vignette with the title, dated 1590, on verso of leaf A4;  4 folding woodcut diagrams of army positions, including 2 with  illustrations; 3 full-page woodcuts of army positions and a plan of an army camp and 6 small woodcut illustrations in the text;  several woodcut initials.

Title surrounded by decorative woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on the title; large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last  blank; vignette with the title, dated 1590, on verso of leaf A4;  4 folding woodcut diagrams of army positions, including 2 with  illustrations; 3 full-page woodcuts of army positions and a plan of an army camp and 6 small woodcut illustrations in the text;  several woodcut initials.

Title surrounded by decorative woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on the title; large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last  blank; vignette with the title, dated 1590, on verso of leaf A4;  4 folding woodcut diagrams of army positions, including 2 with  illustrations; 3 full-page woodcuts of army positions and a plan of an army camp and 6 small woodcut illustrations in the text;  several woodcut initials.



Brussels, Roger Velpius, 1590. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine with gilt acorn ornaments, decorative gilt borders on sides, with gilt acorns at  the four corners, and gilt central coat of arms with a lighthouse and the legend "In concussa manet" in centre on front cover; gilt arabesque central ornament on back cover, g.e. Title surrounded by decorative woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on the title; large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last  blank; vignette with the title, dated 1590, on verso of leaf A4;  4 folding woodcut diagrams of army positions, including 2 with  illustrations; 3 full-page woodcuts of army positions and a plan of an army camp and 6 small woodcut illustrations in the text;  several woodcut initials. (3), 125 (=118), (2 blank) lvs.

Bound with:
LONDONNO, Don Sancho de. El discurso sobre la forma de reduzir la disciplina militar, a meyor y antiguo estado.  Brussels, Roger Velpius, 1589. 4to. With large woodcut printer's  device on verso of the last leaf. 44 lvs.

Two fine military works in Spanish for the Spanish army, printed in Brussels, by then the capital of the Spanish (Southern) Netherlands, recently reconquered for the Spanish king, marking the definite  separation between the Catholic Southern and the Protestant Northern Netherlands. 
Ad 1: Military work on tactics, fortification, artillery, etc., originally published anonymously at Alcala in 1536. The present, second edition is the first to quote the name of the author: Diego de Salazar  (in the title of the second book, lf. 20). Salazar was inspired by Machiavelli's work: Arte della Guerra. On the folding plates several  tactical fighting positions are depicted for the army. 
Ad 2: First edition, although Palau quotes Nicolas Antonio la Primera saying that the first edition is from 1587, also printed by R. Velpius, but Palau has never seen a copy of that edition. At least three re-editions appeared with Velpius in the following decade.

Fine copy in beautifully gilt binding.- (Spine sl. discoloured;  some quires sl. browned; sl. damp-stained; small hole in leaf 59).
Ad 1: Palau 286504; Peeters-Fontainas 1157; Machiels S 57; Bibl. de Salvá 2669; cf. Cockle 511 (ed. 1536); STC Spanish, p. 173 (ed. 1536); not in Adams. Ad 2: Palau 139748; STC Spanish, p. 209 (listed under Valdés); Cockle 563; not in Peeters-Fontainas.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Arms & Armour  Militaria  Spain  Spanish 

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