Military History

[ABELIN, Johann Philipp] and Cornelis DANCKERTSZ (translator). Historis oft waerachtich verhael van den gantschen toestant van oorlooge soo die ghevoert is in Duytschlandt door den grootmachtigsten en onverwinnelicksten koningh Gustavus Adolphus. Coninck der Sweeden, &c.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckertsz, 1642. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 11 (of 12) large folding maps and views, 42 double page engraved plates, 5 full page engraved plates, 51 engraved portraits in the text, and 9 small engraved views in the text. All engravings (except one small engraving of coins in the text) are expertly coloured by a contemporary hand and with the engraved title-page also highlighted in gold. Further with a large woodcut headpiece, a large woodcut tailpiece, and 2 large woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum with a large lozenge shaped ornamental centre piece within a double fillet frame on both boards, the title in manuscript on the spine, gilt edges. [1], [1 blank], [10], 208, 183, [1], 202, [14] pp. Full description

ADAM, [Eugen and Franz]. Erinnerungen an die Feldzüge der K. K. Oester. Armee in Italien in den Jahren 1848-49.
Munich, Cotta, [1851]. Royal oblong folio (62.5 x 45.5 cm). With tinted lithographed title, dedication leaf to Radetzky, preface and 24 lithographed plates. With 24 ll. of explanatory text printed on blue paper. Plates loose in a contemporary red cloth slipcase with a silk lining. [24] ll. Full description

[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

ALKEMADE, Kornelis van. Behandeling van 't kamp-regt; d'aaloude en opperste regts-vordering voor 't hof van Holland, onder de eerste graaven.
Delft, Andries Voorstad, 1702. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and 7 full-page engraved plates (frontispiece and first 3 plates (partly) colored by hand). Contemporary vellum. [22], 236 pp. Full description

[LETTERS]. 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. Folio (21.5 x 30 cm).
(1) Letter in Italian, signed, from Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in Andria to Ferrante Gonzaga, 13 August 1539, with a 23 mm seal bearing Alvarez de Toledo's 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 45 mm 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 husband's 23 mm red wax seal.
Each letter, in brown ink, occupies one page, with the last page containing the address and the sender's 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

ARAYA, Fernando de. Conclusiones mathematicas, practicas, y especulativas defendidas en el principio del segundo año ...
Manila, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1758. 4to. With engraved frontispiece equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies. Contemporary salmon-coloured silk over flexible boards, preserved in modern portfolio. [4], 4 ll. Full description

ARCOS Y MORENO, Joseph de. Real ordenanza de cavalleria del Reyno, con las ilustraciones correspondientes a sus articulos, para le mejor instruccion de los tribunales, y professores ...
Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. 8vo. With the full-page woodcut arms of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, before the half-title, a woodcut headpiece and several tailpieces, decorations built up from typographic ornaments, a decorated woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a crowned A, M and E to represent the three autonomous southern crown lands. Contemporary vellum. [26], 406 pp. Full description

[ARIF PACHA, Muchir]. [Les anciens costumes de l'empire Ottoman, depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud. Volume I = all published].
[Paris, Lemercier, 1863]. 1mo (54.5 x 40 cm). With lithographic portrait of Arif Pacha, drawn on stone by M. Julien, printed on India paper, cut in an oval and mounted on a leaf of stiff paper, with caption and imprint lithographed directly on the leaf, 16 tinted lithographic plates after Arif Pacha (image size 24.5 x 34 cm). Lacking lithographed title-page. Contemporary black half morocco. 24 ll. printed both sides, plus plates Full description

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Austriaco-castrensis.
Vienna, Albert Anton Patzowsky, 1795. 8vo. Half calf, spine label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [4], 102 pp. 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