Military History

SÉA. Mémoire sur la fortification permanente, pour servir a la construction d'un front de fortification sur le terrain, ... Nouvelle édition.
Saint Petersburg, Pluchart et comp., 1818. 2 volumes. Large 4to (26 x 21.5 cm & 27.5 x 22 cm). With 20 (of 21?) engraved plates (13 double-page and 7 large folding), and 3 full-page tables. Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spines. [12], XIX, [1 blank], 284, [3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR]. Kort en bondigh verhael, van 't geene in den oorlogh, tusschen den Koningh van Engelant &c. de h: m: heeren staten der vrye Vereenigde Nederlanden, en den Bisschop van Munster is voorgevallen. Beginnende in den jare 1664 en eyndigende met het sluyten van de Vrede tot Breda, in 't jaer 1667 …
Amsterdam, printed for Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1667.
With: [DUTCH REPUBLIC - STATES GENERAL]. Articulen van vrede ende verbondt, tusschen den … heere Karel, de tweede … Koningh van Groot Britannien ... ende de hoogh mogende heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlantsche Provintien …
The Hague, Hillebrant van Wouw, 1667. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a half-page engraving on the title page, a folding engraved map, a folding engraved plate, 9 half-page engravings in the text, and 2 additional large folding engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. 255, [1]; [24] pp. Full description

SIDERIUS, Mattheus. De theorie van de vesting-bouw, vertoont in de drie versterkings manieren van den heer Vauban. ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, Gerrit Tresling, 1765. 8vo. With 29 numbered folding plates (I-XXIX) and 2 folding letterpress tables (A & B). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [16], 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. plus plates and tables. Full description

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik, Comte Erik Johansen DAHLBERG and Johann Philip LEMBKE. Batailles de Charles X Gustave Roi de Suède...
Stockholm, A.F. Skjöldebrand, 1806. Large oblong folio (52 x 68 cm). With an engraved title with aquatint vignette, engraved portrait by Sandrart after a painting by Ehrenstrahl, and 11 aquatint plates after drawings by Count Dahlberg and paintings by Lembke, engraved by Skjöldebrand, numbered I-XII, all in sepia. Contemporary half calf with marbled brown boards, gold-tooled spine. [13] ll. Full description

SNOECK, Adriaan. Kaart van het kamp bij Zeist aanduidende de daar op bestaan hebbende kampementen.
[Netherlands, ca. 1828]. Manuscript plan in ink (56.5 x 67.5 cm) on paper. With the title in the upper left corner and the scale in ells, ca. 1:6000. Full description

SOLÍS Y RIBADENEYRA, Antonio de. Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne par Fernand Cortez.
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 14 engraved maps, views and plates (12 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [32], 606, [26]; [12], 560, [22] pp. Full description

[SPANISH - RELACIONES]. [Drop-title:] Relacion muy verdadera de dos presas y derrotas que en diferentes Aduares de la Berberia en los confines de Oran, tuuo el señor Marques de Floresdauila del Consejo de Guerra de su Magestad, y su Gouernador y Capitan general en aquellas partes
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, [1637]. Folio (21 x 29.2 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board [16], [11 blank] ll. Full description

[STERLINCX, Pierre]. Een corte waerachtighe beschrijvinghe, van alle gheschiedenissen, aenslaghen, stormen, schermutsingen, ende schieten voor de vrome stadt Haerlem in Hollandt gheschiet. Midtsgaders hoe, ende met wat conditien de selve den al ghemeynen Viant Ducque d'Albe overghelevert is, oock hoe hy met den soldaten, ende burgheren ghehandelt heeft, ende dat tot den 12 Septembris anno 1573.
Delft, [printed by Aelbrecht Hendricksz and the widow of Herman Schinkel (the Schinkel-Hendricksz press)], 1574. 4to. With the oval woodcut printer's device on the title page. Later (18th-century) half vellum. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description

STEVIN, Simon. La castrametation, ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618.
With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [4 of 8], 54, [2 blank]; [4], 61, [1 blank] pp. Full description