Military History

PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA. De bello Persico. Liber primus-secundus.
Including: De bello Vandilico. Liber tertius-quartus.
Rome, Eugarius Silber alias Franck, 1509. Folio. With numerous decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 18th-century paper boards. [90] ll. Full description

[PUNJAB-BRITISH SECRETARIAT]. Press lists of old records in the Punjab Secretariat - Volume VII. - North-West Frontier Agency. Correspondence with Government, 1840-1845.
Lahore, printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1915. 1 volume bound as 2. Folio. With an addendum slip facing p. 197. Brown calf, with "Book 1" and "Book 2" in gold on the spines. [2?], 993 pp. Full description

PUYSEGUR, Jean-François DE CHASTENET, MARQUIS DE. Art de la guerre, par principes et par règles. Mis au jour par M. le Marquis De Puységur son fils.
Paris, Ch.A. Jombert, 1749. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 title-pages, each with a large engraved vignette, engraved headpiece to the dedication, 2 fine engraved headpieces at the beginning of each volume, and illustrations of war camps, battle arrays, formations of marches, plans etc. on 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, red and black spine label. [12], 411, [5]; [12], 547, [5] pp. Full description

[MALTA]. RADEMAKER, [Gerard?]. Malta. [View of the castle, fortifications and harbour of Valetta].
[Malta(?), ca. 1700?]. 14 x 44 cm. Ink and colour wash drawing, signed in the lower right corner: "Rademaker". Mounted in a rice-paper window kept under passe-partout. Full description

REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige.
Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (26.5 x 20 cm). With 3 numbered folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text, all made for the present edition. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards and board edges. XVI, 122 pp. Full description

REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of Verhandeling om de facen ... bestendiger ... te doen zyn ... Opgesteld ten nutte der krygsbouwkunde, en derzelver min of meer gevorderde bearbeiders.
Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With 3 folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text. 19th-century half parchment. [16], 121, [1] pp. Full description

REINAUD, Joseph Toussaint. Extraits des historiens Arabes, relatifs aux guerres des croisades, ouvrage formant, d'après les écrivains Musulmans, un récit suivi des guerres saintes ...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 8vo. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. XLVIII, 582 pp. Full description

REYD, Everhard van. Oorspronck ende voortganck vande Nederlantsche oorloghen ofte waerachtighe historie vande voornaemste geschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders voorgevallen zedert den jare 1566, tot het jaer 1601, verdeylt in achthien boecken. [engraved title-page:] Historie der Nederlantscher Oorlogen ... tot ... 1601.
Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1633. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Crispijn van de Passe, 25 engraved portraits in the text (including one of the author) and with a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled vellum. [22], 791, [8] pp. Full description

REYD, Everhard van. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583.
Arnhem, Ian Iansz., 1626. 4to. With engraved title-page and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and K. van Sichem. Contempory vellum. [16], 734, [14] pp. Full description

[RIJCKE, Lambertus de, Nathane (de) VAY & Job de RIEU]. Bergues sur le Soom assiegée le 18 de Jullet 1622, et des-assiegée le 3 d'Octobre ensuivant. Selon la description faite par les trois pasteurs de l'église d'icelle.
Middelburg, Jean vander Hellen for Rombout van Hamerste, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and several headpieces made up of typographical ornaments.19th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [16], 281, [11] pp. Full description