Highlights

[ALBUM AMICORUM - HEINRICH, Carl Gottlieb]. [Album amicorum of Carl Gottlieb Heinrich with entries written in Bischofswerda and surroundings, The Netherlands, France, Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, Bengal, and Reading, England].
[Bischofswerda and surroundings, etc., 1802-1818]. 8vo oblong (12.8 x 18.2 cm). Richly illustrated with 13 watercolour drawings, some full-page, of tombs, a temple of friendship, vases, hunting scene, nice portraits, basket with fruit, etc., 2 views: washed drawings of Cape Town (folding) and Jamestown, St Helena, 2 drawings of children and an altar, 6 (stippled) engraved small plates pasted down of Amor, the military camp of Wallenstein, children and exotic people, and 3 embroideries. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with a lighter brown leather oval inset as a centrepiece in both boards, gold-tooled spine with red and green morocco labels lettered in gold "Denkmal der Freundschaft" and an initial "H" (= Heinrich) in a gold-tooled laurel wreath, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 120 ff., irregularly paginated: some ff. apparently cut out, some added. Full description

[BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE]. L'ascanius moderne, ou l'illustre avanturier.
Edinburgh, 1763. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With both title pages printed in red and black, 3 folding engravings, some woodcut decorations on the title pages, and some woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. VII, [1], 96; [1], [1 blank], [1],98-198 pp. Full description

BRUNI (ARETINO), Leonardo and Lodovico PETRONI (translator). Libro de la guerra de Ghotti ... in lingua Latine [e] fatto volgare da Lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese nuovamente stampato.
(Colophon: Venice, Nicolo d'Aristotele detto Zoppino de Ferrara), 1528. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Slightly later limp vellum. 87, [1 blank] ll. Full description

DANET, Guillaume. L'art des armes, ou la maniere la plus certaine de se servir utilement de l'epée, soit pour attaquer, soit pour se défendre, simplifiée & démonstrée dans toute son étendue & sa perfection, suivant les meilleurs principes de théorie & de pratique adoptés actuellement en France;...
Paris, Herissant, fils, 1766-1767. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With a richly designed emblematic frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved armorial headpiece for the dedication, an engraved armorial tailpiece with the French Royal coat of arms, and 45 double-page engraved plates by L.G. Taraval after Taxcilliere, showing the various positions and movements of two gentlemen fencing in the fields. Contemporary half calf. [4], XXXVIII, 241, [9]; [14], 215, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DEIDIER, L'abbé]. Le parfait ingenieur François, ou la fortification offensive et défensive, contenant la construction, l'attaque & la défense des places régulieres & irrégulieres, selon les méthodes des plus habiles auteurs de l'Europe, qui ont écrit sur cette science. On y trouvera aussi des manieres de fortifier les places irrégulieres, plus facilement & beaucoup mieux, qu'on n'a fait jusqu'ici.
Amsterdam, la Compagnie des Libraires, 1734. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by Le Pautre after Santer, the title page is printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, and 42 engraved plates with numerous illustrations on 41 folding engraved leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 346, [2] p. Full description

DYLIUS, Joannes (compiler). Dagwyzer der geschiedenissen ... Benevens de geboorte, en sterfdagen, van hooge, en laage stands persoonen ...
[Amsterdam, (frontispiece:) 1778]. Narrow 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a neat and clear but minute Latin hand, forming a calendar of historical events from 17 CE to 28 November 1777, with a grey ink and ink-wash allegorical frontispiece title, dated 1778 but signed by the artist "A:C. 1777.", and a title page in 8 styles of plain and decorated Latin and gothic lettering. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, the spine with a green morocco label, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges. Bound by the so-called "Rocaille-and-flower bindery" (Storm van Leeuwen). [8 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [187], [9 blank] pp. including frontispiece. Full description

ERRARD, Jean. La fortification demonstree et reduicte en art ... reveue corrige et augmentee par A. Errard ...
[Amsterdam ("livres" 2 & 4: "Paris" = Amsterdam), Johannes Jansonnius?], "1619" [= 1622?]-1622. 1 volume in 4 "livres". Folio (33 x 21 cm). With an engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, 9 engraved and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Recased in contemporary vellum. [6], “70” [= 71], [1 blank] ll. including the integral title page, plus 38 plates. Full description

[GEOGRAPHY].

Geografisch-toneel, of uitgezochte kaarten, tot gemak der officieren, reizzigers en liefhebbers; behelsende alle de generale kaarten van de waereld, met de bysondere, der plaatsen daar den oorlog in Europa gevoerd word, en de plans der forten ... verrykt door de militaire bouwkunde, en door een korte manier om gemakkelyk de geographie te leeren en begrip van de waereldkloot te hebben.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Ratelband & Comp., 1735. Upright oblong 8vo (20 x 8.5 cm). With a woodcut ornament on the title-page, 1 folding plate and 40 folding numbered engraved maps (ca. 18 x 26.5-42 cm), many of them surrounded with coat-of-arms, city plans and views, all coloured by hand, of all parts of the world. The plate and maps are all folded 3 or even 4 times to the upright oblong format of the atlas. Contemporary calf. Hand-written list of plates on the first fly-leaf, listing only 38 of the 40 maps. 16 pp.

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GOLDMAN, Nicolas. La nouvelle fortification.
Leiden, (Bonaventura & Abraham) Elzevier, 1645. Folio. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, engraved by Adriaen Matham, showing the title within a wreath at the centre and a fortified town in the lower part of the composition. The text contains 52 half-page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures, as well as detailed illustrations of fortifications. 22 of these plates are repeated one to four times, resulting in a total of 94 illustrations. Contemporary brown morocco. [16], 224 pp. Full description

[GUNPOWDER - PAPAL STATES]. Bando contro li salnitrari, è polveristi, è quelli che permettono, che nelle loro terre, castelli et altri luoghi si fabrichino salnitro e polvere &c.
Rome, nella stamperia della reverenda Camera Apostolica, 27 January 1651. Ca. 38.5 x 26 cm. With three woodcut coats of arms at the head: those of the Apostolic Camera, Pope Innocent X, and Cardinal Lorenzo Raggi. Further with a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

SAINT MARTIN, Jean-Antoine de. L'art de faire des armes réduit a ses vrais principes. contenant tous les principes nécessaires à cet art, qui y sont expliqués d'une manière claire et intelligible....
Vienna, Janne Schrämble, 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the verso of the first leaf, an engraved coat-of-arms of the Archduke of Austria, Charles Louis, to whom the work is dedicated, and 72 engraved plates, of which 1 coloured by a contemporary hand and 2 folding, depicting the various positions in fencing and sword-fighting. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. [8], XII, [2], 92, [6], 57 [1 blank] pp. Full description

SAVORGNANO, Mario. Arte militare terrestre, e maritima; secondo la ragione, et uso de piu valorosi capitani antichi, e moderni. gia descritta, e divisa in quattro libri.
Venice, Seb. Combi, 1614. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 double-page tables, and 23 double-page woodcut plates. Contemporary vellum. [20], 266 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