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Vivid illustrations of military life in the 16th century View picture(s) 1 FRONSPERGER, Leonhardt. Kriegsbuch, erster [- dritter] Theil ... Jetzt von neuwem mit sonderm Fleiß ubersehen, und an vielen Örtern gemehrt und gebessert, auch mit schönen neuwen Figuren vnd Kupfferstücken geziert, sampt ordenlichen Registern. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Sigmund Feyerabend, 1596. 3 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum on wooden boards with portrait of Emperor Charles V, and 2 brass clasps. With large woodcuts on 3 title-pages, the title-page printed in red and black, woodcut author's portrait, large woodcut publisher's device on penultimate blank leaf, 3 folding woodcut plates, an extra folding engraved plate at the end of the second volume, a series of 21 folding engraved plates, and 334 large woodcuts by Jobst Amman in text, (several repeated). [6], CLXVII, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [4], CLXIII, [3], [1 blank]; [6], CCLXVI, [4], [2 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Costumes  Cultural History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn the basics of arms & armour View picture(s) 2 GELIOT, Louvan. Indice Armorial, ou Sommaire Explication des mots usitez  au Blason des Armoiries. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1635. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, red edges. With richly engraved allegorical title by Daret, full-page engraved royal coat-of-arms, and hundreds of armorial woodcuts in text, the first 42 coat-of-arms richly coloured by hand. (8), 366, (2 blank, 5 index), (3), 369-379, (9 errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arms & Armour  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the greatest rarity View picture(s) 3 GHEYN, Jacob II de. Waffenhandlung von den Röhren, Mussqueten und Spiessen.  Gestalt nach der Ordnung dess hochgebornen Fürsten und Herrn Moritzen, Printzen zu Oranien. Mit beygefügter schriftlicher Unterrichtung, wie alle Hauptleute und Befehlichshaber ihre junge und unerfahrne Soldaten zur vollkommenen Handlungen derselben Waffen desto besser abrichten köndten.- Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, & piques. En conformite de Lordre de Maurice, Prince d'Orange. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, à l'utilite de tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facilement enseigner à leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier & parfait maniement dicettes armes. Frankfurt, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1609. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. vellum. Title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 3 series of 42, 43, and 32 full-page woodcut plates, resp. showing exercises with the musket, the firelock, and the pike. (48; 44; 36) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  German  Militaria  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fortification and military architecture, artillery and fireworks View picture(s) 4 GRUBER, Johann Sebastian. Neuer und gründlicher Unterricht, von der heutigen Fortification und Artillerie : in zwey Bücher verfasset : worinnen in dem Ersten bey der Fortification gehandelt wird, was so wol in Auferbauung, als Attaquirung und Defendirung einer Vestung in acht zu nehmen. Nebenst einem kurzen Begriff von dem nöthigsten Stücken der Arithmetic und Geometrie : in dem Andern aber bey der Artillerie wird gewiesen, wie deren gebräuchliche Sorten in allen gebührend zu verfertigen, un so wol off- als defensive zu Wasser und Land, Nachts und Tages, recht und mit Nutzen zu gebrauchen. Nebenst einem Bericht von Zubereitung einiger Ernst-Feuerwerckes-Kugeln. Nürnberg, Johann Hoffmanns seel. Wittib, Engelbert Strecken, Abraham von Werth, 1700. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards. Engraved double-page frontispiece with a.o. a fortification and an explosion, title in red & black, 10 numbered engraved full-page plates & a folding table in the first part and 6 full-page engraved plates (I-VI) in the second part. (6), 290, (2 pp. blank), (6); (2), 316, (2 blank), (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Arms & Armour  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated military work showing battle formations with flag exercises View picture(s) 5 MARZIOLI, Francesco. Precetti militari. (Colophon: Bologna, heirs of Domenico Barbieri, 1670.) Folio. 19th-century half cloth. With richly engraved allegorical armorial title-page, engraved allegorical dedicatory portrait of Ferdinand Maria Duke of Bavaria, both engraved by L. Tinti after Dominicus à Bricio, and 90 engraved plates, many full-page. [2] 166, [6] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arms & Armour  Flags  Italy  Manuals  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sumptuously illustrated work on ancient armour View picture(s) 6 MEYRICK, Samuel Rush. A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages. London, G. Schulzefor Robert Jenningssold by John Gale, 1824. 3 vols. Folio. Contemporary full black morocco, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with richly gilt borders on sides, gilt inner fillets, g.e. With 3 steelengraved titles with large vignet by C. Heath after R. Bridgens, 3 printed titles, 27 large  historiated and illuminated initials, richly hand coloured  and heightened with gold, 10 aquatint plates with illustrations of details of arms and armour, and 70 aquatint plates, richly coloured by hand and heightened with gold, of knights in armour on horseback, by R. Bridgens after the author. LXXVII, 206; 297; 147, (135) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Costumes  Europe  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to shoot a musket and other things you needed to know in 1703 View picture(s) 7 NIEROP, Pieter Rembrantsz. van. Stichters borger wacht-almanach, voor 't jaer onses Heeren /1703. Met de maens op en ondergang. En de watertijden. Amsterdam, J. Stichter, & Constant van de Be, (1703). 16mo (8 x 8,7 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum, tooled with silver, frontcover with in the centre a crowned coat of arms of Amsterdam  and caption 'Amsterdam' underneath, backcover is decorated in the centre with a depiction of three drummers, with a caption in Dutch underneath, both covers handcoloured in red, blue and yellow. Title printed in red and black and woodcut vignette with a procession of parading drummers, woodcut headpieces and woodcuts with scenes relating to drummers and nightwatchmen to each month in text. (32) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Almanacs & Calendars  Amsterdam  Arms & Armour  Bindings  Militaria  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A colourful history of the West Yorkshire Regiment View picture(s) 8 O'DONNELL, Henry (Ed.). Historical records of the 14th regiment, now the Prince of Wales's own (West Yorkshire regiment,) from its formation, in 1685, to 1892. Devonport, A.H. Swiss, (1893). 8vo. Contemporary cloth with calf sides and gilt title on spine, gilt medaillon on front cover, gilt ornament tooling on inside of covers, g.e. With 13 full- page coloured plates (incl. frontispiece), 33 full-page b/w illustrations of which 5 portraits, some small b/w illustrations in text. XXII, 415, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Costumes  History  Libraries & Collections  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In the service of the queen View picture(s) 9 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., (ca. 1890). 3 vols. Large 8vo. Original red calf with pattern of triple filets along the edges, spine with raised bands with filets in compartments and gilt title on spine, gilt pattern with ornaments on inner margins, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 3 chromolithographed half title-pages and 44 full-page chromolithographs in total. (2), VI, 352; (2), VIII, 352; (2), VIII, 376 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Cavalry  Chromolithography  England  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hunting with a gun View picture(s) 10 ROBINSON, H. Conseils sur chasseurs sur le tir, les armes, munitions et illustrations du chasseur. La chasse en plaine et les différentes chasses des oiseaux savages; suivie d'une table alphabétique de tous les gibiers à poil et à plume avec des renseignements détaillés sur chacun d'eux. Paris, Brussels, Leipzig, A. Goin, Widow and son of Schnée, 1860. Large 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, red and blue mottled edges. With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops. 219, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Art  Hunting  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractively illustrated fencing treatise in splendid binding View picture(s) 11 ROLAND, George. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing, illustrated with twelve highly finished plates, and continued by easy and progressive lessons, from the simplest position to the most complicated movements. London, Edinburgh, for William Sams, Archibald Constable, 1824. 8vo. Nineteenth-century gold- and blind-tooled red morocco, signed BUMPUS (Oxford St.), top edge gilt. With 12 lithographed plates by Forrester & Morison after G. Simson. XI, (1), 181, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arms & Armour  Bindings  Fencing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An ergonomic way of carrying the heavy gear of an infantry soldier View picture(s) 12 VIRCHOW, Johann Christoph. Denkschrift über eine zweckmäßig erscheinende Trageweise des Infanterie-Gepäcks oder über die Nothwendigkeit: die zu tragende Last dem Baue des körpers gemäß zu vertheilen. Anklam, 1833 (printed by W. Hausschildt in Stralsund, 1834 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine, marbled boards, front cover with central gilt crowned capital 'O'. Large folding lithographed plate. 68 [= 66] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arms & Armour  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on gunpowder and military pyrotechnics View picture(s) 13 [BÜCHSENMEYSTEREI]. Von Geschoss, Büchsen, Pulver, Salpeter und feurwergken ec. (Colophon: Frankfurt am Main, Chr. Egenolff, March 1531). 4to. Old vellum. With large woodcut illustration on title. 24 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Chemistry  Fireworks  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dufour's account on the Sonderbund War View picture(s) 14 [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. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. With six folding lithographed maps of which three with handcoloured troup emplacements. (2), 81, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Militaria  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Can a political opponent cast your cannons? View picture(s) 15 [DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Extract uyt de resolutien van de Edele Mog. Heeren Raden van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden. (The Hague), 1770, Friday 19 October. Folio. Contemporary boards. 4 large folding engravings (39,5 x 85 cm) showing cannons, and some constructing details of these cannons, all engraved by Van Schley. 22 pp., 1 blank leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Militaria  Netherlands  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare unrecorded (pirated?) edition of these beautifully illustrated French military exercises View picture(s) 16 [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, Pierre Giffart, Graveur du Roy, 1697. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, speckled edges. With finely engraved frontispiece with a lively view of an army camp, with the richly decorated coat of arms of the dedicatee, Marechal Duke de Boufflers, underneath, and with 85 finely designed engraved plates of French soldiers and officers exercising their arms, all with a lively view of army exercises in the background. (14), 178 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arms & Armour  Costumes  France  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Southern Netherlands reconquered View picture(s) 17 [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. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Arms & Armour  Militaria  Spain  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the celebrated collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps and Major J.R. Abbey View picture(s) 18 [SCOTLAND]. A collection of Inventories and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewelhouse; and of the Artillery and Munitioun in some of the Royal Castles. 1488-1606. Edinburgh, 1815. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, richly gilt and blind-stamped borders on sides with gilt ornaments at the four corners and large central ornament, g.e. (THOMSON). VIII, 359, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Catalogues  Collections  England  Jewellery  Scotland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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