Military History

AVILA Y ZUÑIGA, Luis de, and Willem van MALE (translator). Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carolo V. ... gesto, libri duo à Gulielmo Malinaeo Brugensi latinè redditi, & iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati.
Antwerp, In aedibus Joannes Steelsius, 1550. 8vo. With the printers device of Joannes Steelsius on the title page, 4 woodcut illustrations (a folding view, a double-page map, a double-page view, and a full-page view), and a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Emperor Charles V on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a paper shelfmark label ("P) in the top compartment and the manuscript number "4" in white ink in the compartment below, the coat of arms of Christopher Popel the elder of Lobcowicz (1513-1590) in the centre of the front board with the initials "C. B. A. L. Ae. A" and the motto "Insigniae" above, and the date "MDLIII" below, surrounded by an ornamental and triple fillet border, on the back a cross built up from four fleur-de-lis ornaments framed by the same border, 4 green closing ties. [8], 144 ll. Full description

[BACKER, Jan] and Albrecht Nicolaas van AERSSEN BEIJEREN. Exercitien voor een compagnie grenadiers bestaande in het manuaal & d'evolutien ...
[The Netherlands], 1738. Folio. With 25 ink drawings depicting tactical formation exercises for infantry. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [1], [1 blank], 49, [9 blank] pp. Full description

BARNARD, John Gross. The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run.
New York, D. Van Nostrand; London, Trübner & co. (back of title-page: C.A. Alvord), 1862. 8vo. With 5 folding maps. Publishers red cloth, with title in gold on front board. 124, [12] pp. Full description

BARROW, John. Reizen in China, ...
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1807-1809. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 10 engraved plates (6 folding, 1 double-page), the double-page plate with 2 portraits hand-coloured, 4 leaves with engraved music, and several woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's boards. VIII, 288; VI, 334; VI, 341, [1] pp. Full description

[ALGERIA - BAZÁN, Alvaro de]. Relacion de la interpressa, y saquea miento de la villa del carte en Africa, por el excelentissimo senor D. Aluaro Bacan Marqnes del Viso, general de la escuadra de las galeras de Sicilia, governador, y capitan general de Oran, y macalquibir, aveinte de febrero, deste ano de 1642.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, 1642. Folio (28 x 20.6 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Unbound. [2] ll. Full description

BECKER (VON HERVORD), Peter. Nieuwe manier van vestingbou, hoe men alle regulare en irregulare vestingen met hare buytenwerken na haer behoorlijke proportie, sonder eenige rekeninge, door den gemeenen cirkel op een nieuwe en gansch lichte manier tekenen, afsteken en opbouwen sal. Van nieuws van den autheur selve, met het offensive en defensive vermeerdert, en door de tabulae sinuum uytgerekent, en met nodige demonstratien en figuren allen liefhebbers deser kunst verrijkt.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge I, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved illustrations in the text and 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum. [16], 146 pp. Full description

BEHR, Johann Heinrich. Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf. [3], [1 blank], [20], 616 pp. Full description

[BENTINCK, Volkier Rudolph]. [Wrapper-title:] Journael zedert 1771.
[Maastricht, Bois-le-Duc, Bergen op Zoom, Namur, etc., 7 July - 3 September 1771 & The Mediterranean and Portugal, 23 May - 18 August 1774]. 2 matching journals. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). Two manuscript journals in French, written in brown ink on laid paper. Contemporary coarse brown paper wrappers, with the 1771 journal in loose bifolia (never sewn) inserted. [2], [2 blank], [11], [1 blank]; 18, [6 blank] pp. Full description

[BONAPARTE, Napoleon (attributed)]. Kitāb majmuʻ ḥawādith ʼal-ḥarb ʼal-wāqiʻ bayna ʼal-Faransawīyah wa-ʼal-Namsāwīyah fī ʼawākhir sanat 1805 ʼal-Masīḥīyah ʼal-muwāfiq lahā sanat (translation: A book of summaries of the war between the French and the Austrians at the end of 1805).
[Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1806]. Small 4to. With a woodcut decorative border on the title page, and a woodcut Islamic headpiece at the start of the work.
Mid-19th-century gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a brown morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine and the initials "P. T." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 306 pp. Full description

BOR, Pieter Christiaensz. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden, beginnende met d' opdracht der selve landen, gedaen by keyser Karel den Vijfden, aen sijnen soon konink Philippus van Spanjen, en eindigende met het einde van 't jaer MDC, ... voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.
[engraved title:] Historie der Nederlandtsche oorlogen. ontpartydiglyk beschreven.
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 4 volumes. Folio. With the joint device of the publishers (with their initials) on each title-page, four nearly identical engraved frontispieces and a total of 80 engraved plates (including 4 identical portraits of the author and 39 double-page plates). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with remnants of green ties. [28], 1006, [10], 188; [8], 231, 234-242, 241-672, 679-994, [8], 128; [8], 532, [6], 529-690, 693-896, [8], 28; [8], 419, 432-512, 517-692, 14, 16, [188] pp. Full description