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Extremely rare work on gunpowder and military pyrotechnics View picture(s) 1 (BÜCHSENMEYSTEREI). Von Geschoss, Büchsen, Pulver, Salpeter und feurwergken ec. (Colophon: Frankfurt on the Main, Chr. Egenolff, March 1531). 4to. Old vellum. With large woodcut illustration on title. 24 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Chemistry  Fireworks  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The heavy artillery of the Ancien Régime: the partly official designs View picture(s) 2 ARTILLERY. Original designs for the heavy artillery used in the wars of the Ancien Régime: mortars, howitzers, canons, etc. on 98 leaves, 55 of which are magnificently hand coloured, from sketches till complete 'official' designs and detailed working drawings to scale with exact measurements, etc. (Toulon, Angoulème, Versailles, Rochefort, e.a.), ca. 1762-84). Modern half calf portfolio, sides covered with green marbled paper, richly gilt an decorated spine in compartments with red morocco title-label, pasted gilt morocco title-label on front cover. In total 98 pendrawings of which 55 beautifully coloured by hand with washes, in various sizes (3 of which folding); 2 copies of a large engraving of a 'Canon de 36' by Petit. 8 manuscript documents. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Arms & Armour  Drawings  French  Manuscripts  Militaria  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) 3 COLLECTION, A-, 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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Dufour's account on the Sonderbund War View picture(s) 4 (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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Very rare unrecorded (pirated?) edition of these beautifully illustrated French military exercises View picture(s) 5 (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) 6 (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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Vivid illustrations of military life in the 16th century View picture(s) 7 FRONSPERGER, LEONHART. Kriegsbuch, erster Theil. Von Kayserlichem Kriegsrechten, Malesitz und Schuldhändlen, Ordnung und Regiment, sampt derselbigen und andern hoch oder nidrigen Befelch, Bestallung, Staht und Empter, zu Ross und Fuss, an Geschütz und Munition, in Zug und Schlachtordnung, zu Feldt, Berg, Thal, Wasser und Landt, vor oder in Besatzungen, gegen oder von Feinden.- Kriegsbuch, ander Theil. Von Wagenburgt umb die Veldleger, Wie man die schliessen, sich darein verschanzen, wider auffbrechen, unnd ein Statt oder Festung mit vortheil Belägern, umbschänzen, und untergraben soll.- Kriegsbuch, dritter Theil. Von Schantzen unnd Befestungen, Umb die Veldläger auffzuwerffen und zu schlagen: Auch vom Ritter und Reutter Rechten, sampt derselben Bestallung und Feldt Ordnung: Von vielen erweglichen Kriegs Artickeln.. Item, der alten Teutschen, auch der Mitternächtigen und anderer frembden Völcker Kriegsordnung, Sitten und Gebrauch. Frankfurt, Sig. Feyerabend, 1596. Folio. Contemp. vellum on wooden boards, spine ribbed, sides richly and fully blind-stamped with wide ornamental borders and rolled borders with busts of Saints and medallion portraits and with portrait of Emperor Charles V. in innermost panel, red painted edges, with 2 brass clasps. With large woodcuts on 3 titles, the first title printed in red and black, woodcut portrait of the author within rich ornamental borders, large woodcut publisher's device on penultimate blank leaf, 3 folding woodcut plates of bullets, an extra folding engraved plate showing the curves of canon balls and bullets at the end of the second part, a series of 21 folding engraved plates on army camps, sieges, sea battles, arrangements of troops and ships, etc., and 334 large woodcuts by Jobst Amman in text, several repeated, partly of soldiers, cavalrists, marches, weaponry, and army scenes set within rich ornamental borders, and partly of army guns and canons, fortifications, sieges, bombardements, army supplies, measuring instruments and quadrants for military engineering, etc., including a beautiful series of 77 large woodcuts of the costumes of all 16th century army personel, set within rich ornamental borders, in the third part, also by Jobst Amman. (6), 167, (1 blank, 3, 1 blank); (4), 164, (3, 1 blank); (6), 266, (4, 2 blank) lvs. 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) 8 GELIOT, L. 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) 9 GHEYN, Jacob 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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With a portrait of the Prince of Wales View picture(s) 10 LIDDELL, Colonel R.S. The memoirs of the tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' own) historical and social. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. 8vo. Original blue cloth with marbled endpapers, gilt title and medaillon on spine, gilt medaillon on front cover, uncut. With full-page portrait frontispiece of the Prince of Wales, 12 full-page chromolithographs after drawings by O. Norie, full-page  b/w portrait steel-engraving, full-page portrait of a Hussar captain, small b/w illustrations in text. XVI, (2), 566 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Cavalry  Militaria  Napoleon  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) 11 MARZIOLI, Francesco. Precetti militari conscrati all immortal nome dell altezza serenissima di Ferdinando Maria Duca dell una e dell altra Baviera e del superiore Palatinato elettore del sacro Romano Imperio etc. Colophon: Bologna, l'Erede di Domenico Barbieri, 1670. Folio. 19th-century half cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt title, red speckled edges. With richly engraved allegorical armorial title, richly engraved allegorical dedicatory portrait of Ferdinand Maria Duke of Bavaria, both engraved by L. Tinti after Dominicus à Bricio, 33 engraved plates with illustrations of exercises on 17 lvs, 20 engraved plates with illustrations of exercises with the pike on 10 lvs, and 37 engraved plates, many full-page, with illustrations of exercises of troops and battle-arrays, woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (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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Richly illustrated View picture(s) 12 MEYRICK, S.R. 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 engraved plates with illustrations of details of arms and armour, and 70 engraved 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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A colourful history of the West Yorkshire Regiment View picture(s) 13 O'DONNELL, H. (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) 14 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) 15 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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An ergonomic way of carrying the heavy gear of an infantry soldier View picture(s) 16 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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