Military History / Military History up to 1700

[AERSSEN, Cornelis van]. Placcaet vande Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, inhoudende scherp verbodt van opte steden, havenen, ende plaetsen, wesende onder t'gebiedt vanden Coninck van Spaingien ... geen toevoer uyte Vereenichde Nederlande[n] te doen van salpeter, buspoeder, geschut ... opte verbeurte vande selve ende andere groote peynen en straffen.
The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., "1591" [= 1591/94?]. With 1 woodcut decorated initial, a typographic interlaced gothic initial and a decoration built up from arabesque cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO, Pedro and Maria OSORIO Y PIMENTEL. [Three letters to Ferrante Gonzaga, Viceroy of Sicily, two from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo and one from his wife Maria Osorio y Pimentel].
Andria (in the Kingdom of Naples), 13 August to 10 September 1539.
Comprising:
(1) Letter in Italian, signed, from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in Andria to Ferrante Gonzaga, 13 August 1539, with a 2.3 cm seal bearing Alvarez de Toledos coat of arms (with a chain of flags) stamped on a slip of paper attached with red wax.
(2) Letter in Spanish, signed, from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in Andria to Ferrante Gonzaga, 3 September 1539, with the 4.5 cm imperial armorial seal stamped on a slip of paper attached with red wax.
(3) Letter in Italian, signed, from Maria Osorio y Pimentel [in Andria] to Ferrante Gonzaga, 10 September 1539, with the remains of what appears to be her husbands 2.3 cm red wax seal.
Folio (21.5 x 30 cm). Each letter, in brown ink, occupies one page, with the last page containing the address and the senders seal. The two inside pages of the second and third letter are blank. Each formerly folded for posting, so that the address would have appeared on one side and the seal on the other. [4]; [4]; [2] pp. including blanks. Full description

[AMSTERDAM - PAMPHLET]. Amsterdams journael. Vervatende kortelijk van dag tot dag, alles wat gepasseert is van den 30 Julij, tot den 4 Augusti des Jaers 1650. Met een korte beschrijvinge vande stigting, op-komst en heerlijkheyd der voorseyde stadt Amsterdam. Als oock de af-beeldinge der selve stadt, met zijn om-leggende dorpen, wegen en wateringen, heel curieus in cooper gesneden.
[Amsterdam?], 1650. 4to. With a folding plate containing a map of Amsterdam and surroundings and a waterfront view of the city. 18th-century half brown paper, marbled sides. 28, [4] pp. Full description

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

BASELIUS, Jacobus. Historisch verhael inhoudende sekere notable explooten van oorloge in de Nederlanden, sedert het oprechten van de companien der heeren gouverneurs ende ritmeesteren van Paulus ende Marcelis Bax.
Breda, Isaac Schilders, 1615. 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical title with portraits of Paulus and Marcelis Bax on horseback, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 149, [3 blank] 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

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

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

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Nederlandsche oorloghen, beroerten, ende borgerlijcke oneenicheyden ...
Leiden, Govert Basson, Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621-1634. 5 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (33.5 x 22 cm). With 5 engraved allegorical title pages, 39 double-page engraved plates, 41 full-page engraved portraits, a full-page map of the Seventeen Province, 158 half-page illustrations, 13 half-page portraits, 10 smaller portraits, and a woodcut illustration. An additional 19th-century portrait of the author is mounted on the final flyleaf. Uniform 17th-century (ca. 1680) vellum, a blind tooled centre-piece on each side, gold-tooled spines with two black leather title labels lettered in gold, red edges, green closing ties. [6], 350, 193; 126, 230, 48, 48, 60; [12], 73, 91, 120, 102; [6], 103, 118, 63, 63, 1, 33, [59]; [11], 56, 48, [2], 78, 90, [4], 126; [12], 100, 83, 69, 66, 69, [18] ll. Full description

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Gelegentheyt van 's Hertogen-Bosch vierde hooft-stadt van Brabandt. Haer oorspronck, fundatie ende vergrootinge, verscheyden hare belegeringen. Ende eyntlijcke overwinninge verrassinghe ende inneminghe van Wesel ende meer andere geschiedenissen des iaers 1629.
The Hague, Aert Meuris, 1630. 4to. With an engraved title-page, which is part of the collation (page (a)2 recto) and a few decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [27], [1 blank], 412, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description