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The misfortunes of the Algerians and Ottomans during the 1732 siege of Oran by the Spanish

[MASCARENHAS, Jose Freire de Monterroyo]. Noticia da destruiçam da Armada Argelina, que foya Turquia buscar soccoro para sitiar Oran por mar, e terra.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1733. 4to. Disbound 8 (p. 2 blank), [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Broadsides & Pamphlets Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Mediterranean Regions Military History (18th Century) Naval History North Africa & Egypt Portugal Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Prince Maurits forbids trade with Spain after the fall of Antwerp: 2nd known copy

[MAURITS VAN NASSAU]. Placcaet by den hoochgheboren Grave Maurits van Nassau, ende ... mijnen heeren vanden Rade van State: waer-mede verboden wordt de navigatie ende coophandel op Spangnien, Portugael ende alle andere eylanden ende plaetsen onder de ghehoorsaemheyt des Conincks van Spangnien wesende.
Delft, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., 1585. 4to. Disbound. [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Military History (16th Century) Netherlands Portugal

Rare richly illustrated text book on fortification

MELDER, Gerard. Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive. Een compagnie, een regiment, een leger te voet en te peert te logeren, en in verscheyde soorte van bataillons te stellen... By gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.
Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons, met een korte wederlegginge der sustenu van H. Ruse over de hedendaeghsche fortificatie.
Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, 13 woodcut folding fortification plans, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary vellum. [12], 208, [4]; 40 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Fortification & Military Architecture Military History (17th Century) School & Textbooks

Textbook on fortification, with 50 assignments for pupils

MELDER, Gerard. Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive... By-gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.
Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Waesberge, 1664. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1658 from the first edition), folding letterpress table, 41 numbered woodcut illustrations in text (31) and on inserted leaves (10), numerous unnumbered woodcut illustrations in text, and 2 folding woodcut plans, signed A and B, in the Appendix. Contemporary vellum. [16], 208; 40 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Fortification & Military Architecture Military History (17th Century) School & Textbooks

Handbook of Portuguese military strategy

MENDES DE VASCONCELOS, Luís. Arte militar dividida em tres partes. A primeira ensina a peleijar em campanha aberta, a segunda nos alojamentos, & aterceira nas fortificaçoes. Com tres discursos antes da arte ...
Alenquer, Vicente Alvarez, 1612. Small folio (20 x 27.5 cm). With 13 letterpress folding plates, woodcut initials and diagrams in the text. Later stamped cream morocco by Antonio Possas of Porto (with his ticket). [4], 263, [5] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Military History (17th Century) Portugal

Very rare important history on the recovery of Egypt from the French by Muhammad Ali Pasha

MENGIN, Felix. Geschiedenis van Egypte, onder de regering van Mohammed-Ali of verhaal der staatkundige en militaire gebeurtenissen, die plaats gehad hebben sedert het vertrek der Franschen tot in 1823.
Amsterdam, Johannes Christoffel van Kesteren, 1828. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 8 engraved plates and 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled sides, red morocco spine label with title in gold. [2], XL, 462, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 515, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Military History (19th Century) North Africa & Egypt Saudi Arabia

Field guide for officers during the Mesopotamian campaign (1914-1918), with a folding map

[MESOPOTAMIA]. [Indian Army General Staff]. For official use only. Field notes. Mesopotamia. General staff, India. February 1917.Including: Index to field notes, Mesopotamia, 1917.
Calcutta, Superintended government printing, 1917. Small 8vo. With 1 folding heliozincographed map of "Lower Mesopotamia", with some routes in red, and three folding letterpress tables. Original green cloth. [3], [1], 326(=325), [1]; [1], [1 blank], XX pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Military History (20th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

"For offical use only": mapping the Mesopotamian battlefields of WWI

[MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN]. Critical study of the campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Part II - Maps.
Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1925. 25 (of 26) folding maps, sketches etc., as always lacking the "Explanation of the Method of giving Map Co-ordinates adopted in Chapters XIII and XX". Original tan cloth map-case with original printed label to cover. 25 (of 26) folding ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Charts & Maps Military History (20th Century) USA - United States of America West Asia

The first contemporary history of the Netherlands. In the first Latin edition, with a rare portrait of the author

METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta.
[Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum. [8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

A French general's correspondence with an Italian lady

[MEYER von SCHAUENSEE, Maurus]. Lettres familieres sur la Carinthie et la Stirie, adressées a madame Bianchi, de Bologne. Par un officier général Français, prisonnier de guerre en Autriche. 1799.
Leoben (Austria) and Paris, Louis-François Prault, an IX [= 1800/01]. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 208 pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Austria Autographs & Letters Central Europe France

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