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First and only edition of Bor's description of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch,
including a detailed account of its siege and capture in 1629

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

€ 850

Battle Plans & Siegecraft History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) Netherlands

Very well preserved broadsheet with attractive hand-coloured aquatint commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar

DODD, Robert. Plan of the attack by Lord Nelson, on the combined fleet, October 21st 1805.
London, printed by J. Smeeton for Robert Dodd, November 1805. Aquatint plan (26.5 x 36.5 cm) coloured by a contemporary hand on a broadsheet (66 x 44 cm), with letterpress text below. Framed (85 x 60 cm). Full description

€ 2,800

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets France Military History (19th Century) Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom

Important account of the Great Siege of Gibraltar, with 10 engraved maps and views

DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. A history of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. ... Third edition.
London, T. Spilsbury, 1786. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, 4 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved views. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. XXIV, 356 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Military History (18th Century) Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom

25 beautiful ca. 1660 etchings depicting a cavalry battle, animals and landscapes, including 3 complete series

FLAMEN, Albert. [5 etched print series:]
1) Divers combats.
Series of 6 unnumbered prints including title-print.
2) Diverses especes d[']animaus faits apres nature.
Series of 7 unnumbered prints including title-print.
3) Veuës et païsages du Chasteau de Longuetoise et des environs.
6 unnumbered prints, including title-print, from a series of 12.
4) [Views near Paris].
Series of 4 numbered prints, published without title.
5) [Pastoral views].
Series(?) of 2 unnumbered prints without title.
Paris, [Jacques Lagniet (ads 1, 3), Jacques van Merlen (ad 4), unknown publisher (ads 2, 5)], [ca. 1660]. Small 4to (16.5 x 13 cm). Five series of small oblong folio etched views (16 x 21.5-23 cm; plate size: 10 x 17 to 12.5 x 21.5 cm), 3 complete, 1 incomplete and 1 documented only as separate prints. Each print folded to form a double leaf and mounted on a stub so that it can open flat. Gold-tooled, dark green goatskin morocco (ca. 1890). [6]; [7]; [6 of 12]; 4; [2] etched ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Faunas & General Zoology France Horses & Horsemanship Mammals Military History (17th Century) Prints & Print Series

French translation of a famous account of the siege of Ostend (1601-1604)

HAESTENS, Henrick Lodewijksz van. La nouvelle Troye ou memorable histoire du siege d'Ostende le plus signalé qu'on ait veu en L'Europe. En laquelle sont descripts & naïfvement representés en diverses figures, les assauts, deffenses, inventions de guerre, mines, contremines, retranchemens, combats par terre & par mer & autres choses remarcables, advenues de part & d'autre, avec ce qui s'est passé par chascun jour durant le-dit siege depuis le 5 Juing 1601 jusqu'au 20 Septemb. 1604 qu'elle fut renduë. Recoeuillie des plus asseurés memoires.
Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1615. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Maurits van Nassau, an engraved vignette on the title page, the engraved coat of arms of Maurits van Nassau on the back of the title page, and 12 (of 14) folding engraved plates. Later gold-tooled red morocco with triple fillet panelling (ca. 1885), richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled enpapers (Riviere & Son). [10], "293" [= 295], [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Belgium History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) Naval History Spain

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions in the East

Jean CHANLAIRE, Pierre Gregoire and Edme MENTELLE. Carte du théâtre de la Guerre en Orient.
Paris, Chanlaire & Mentelle, 1798-1799. Original outline colour. Dissected and laid on linen in two sections, 880 x 940 mm & 660 x 940 mm. Full description

€ 28,000

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Charts & Maps East Africa Egypt Germany Iran / Persia Malta Military History (18th Century) North Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire UAE - United Arab Emirates

Drilling the Austrian Imperial infantry, with 49 manuscript formation plans in colour

LEEUWEN, Engelhard August Baron van. Plans des neu herrauss gegebene Exercittii nach den dermahligen Kayserl: Königl: kriegs Fuss Volck eingerichtet. Herausgegeben im Jahr 1765. Zugehörig Titl. Herrn Obrist Wacht M[ei]st[er] Baron v[on]: Engelhard.
Austria, 1769[?]. Oblong 4to (18.5 x 23 cm). With title and the explanation of the key letters used in the plans written in red, the key to the colour coding in the troop formations in 8 colours, and 49 (of 55) numbered colour-coded plans of infantry exercises. Each text leaf and each plan (except no. 26) in a frame of rules, nos. 2-35 in red, the rest in black. Plans 1, 24, 32, 33, 42, and 46 have been torn out, in 2 cases leaving a small piece of the drawing. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [3], 16 ll. plus 49 (of 55) numbered plans. Full description

€ 5,000

Austria Battle Plans & Siegecraft Central Europe Fortification & Military Architecture Manuscripts & Documents Military History (18th Century)

Maps, plans, and descriptions of the military defenses of Holguín, Cuba, shortly before Cuban independence

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898.
With: (2) NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Caribbean Islands Military History (19th Century) Spain

First account of the famous siege of s-Hertogenbosch by Frederick Henry in 1629,
with 9 folding maps, and bound together with the French translation

PREMPART, Jacques. Verhael oft corte beschryvinghe van tghene ghepasseert is inde seer treffelijcke ende vermaerde belegheringhe van sHertoghen-bosch. Hier by zijn gedaen, een generale kaerte van tgantsche leger, ende voorts verscheyden particuliere van dapproches van yeder quartier int bysonder ...
Amsterdam, printed by Jan Fredericksz. Stam for Henricus Hondius, 1630.
With: (2) PREMPART, Jacques. Recit, ou brefve description de ce qui sest passé durant le tres-fameux siege, de Bois-le-Duc, avec une carte generale du camp entier, & plusieurs particulieres des approches de chasque quartier à part ...
Leeuwarden, printed by Claude Fontaine, 1630. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 large folding engraved maps, 7 folding double-page engraved maps showing the battlefield of the siege of s-Hertogenbosch in 1629 together with all the fortifications and approaches around the city. Ad 2: with a woodcut printer's device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. 28; [2], 26, [4] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Brabant & Limburg History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century)

Impressive aquatint battle scenes

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

€ 5,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Central Europe Military History (19th Century) Poland & Baltic Prints & Print Series Scandinavia & Arctic

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