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First Dutch translation of medical manual by the surgeon general of Frederick the Great

THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton and A. SCHRAGE (translator). Genees- en heelkundig onderwys voor land- en zee-chirurgyns, vervattende een kort begrip der ontleed-, gezondheid-, ziekte-, genees- en heelkunde, nevens de nieuwste en zekerste genees- en heelmiddelen.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1782. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary gold- and blindtooled sheepskin, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [4], 439, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Directions for processions ordered by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman III:
a testimony of the problematic Turkish-European relations in the 17th century

[THE GREAT TURKISH WAR]. Traduction d'un exemplaire en langue Turque contenant le detail & la description des processions des jeunes, & des penitences que le grand seigneur dit Mahomet Soliman, Empereur Turk du soleil levant, & du couchant, souverain seigneur des seigneurs, & veritable successeur de la race du grand prophete Mahomet, a commandé de faire en tout son empire.
Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1687. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and (extra added) a portrait of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski, by F. Jollain, inserted as a second frontispiece. Marbled wrappers. [2], 7, [1] pp. Full description
€ 9,000
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Second and best edition of a comprehensive history of the Hussite wars,
complete with all 17 portraits, often lacking

THEOBALD, Zacharias. Hussiten Krieg: darinnen begriffen, das Leben, die Lehr, der Todt M. Johannis Hussii, auch wie derselbe von den Böhmen, besonders Johann Zischka, ist gerochen, und seine Lehr hernacher inn dem Königreich erhalten worden ...
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1621. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author (1621), and 17 numbered full-page portraits of Johannes Huss, popes, kings, emperors and other Bohemian reformers, by Johann Conrad Klüpffel. The 4 titles printed in red and black, the first 3 with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Bohemia, Halbmayers woodcut device at the end of all 4 parts, folding letterpress genealogical table in the 4th part, the added Confessio. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. [8], 322, [2]; 228; 179, [9]; 107, [5] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
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Photographs of the Persian Gulf Command during the Second World War

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. THOMAS, Colonel S. Morgan (compiler). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Col. S. M. Thomas. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. [23], [4 blank] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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On General Sir Edmund Allenby's time in Arabia

THOMAS, Lowell and Kenneth Brown COLLINGS. With Allenby in the Holy Land.
London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, Cassell and Company Ltd., [1938]. 8vo. With a half-tone photographed portrait of Allenby (signed F.A. Swaine) as a frontispiece. Original publisher's black cloth, with the title in red on the spine and the head edge red. [6], 202 pp. Full description
€ 400
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On General Sir Edmund Allenby's time in Arabia

THOMAS, Lowell and Kenneth Brown COLLINGS. With Allenby in the Holy Land.
London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, Cassell and Company Ltd., [1938]. 8vo. With a half-tone photographed portrait of Allenby (signed F.A. Swaine) as a frontispiece. Original publisher's black cloth. [6], 202 pp. Full description
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Extremely rare unauthorized edition of a manual on field fortification for young officers

TIELKE, Johann Gottlieb. Unterricht für die Offiziers die sich zu Feldingenieurs bilden, oder doch den Feldzügen mit Nutzen beywohnen wollen, durch Beyspiele aus dem letzten Kriege erläutert, und mit nöthigen Plans versehen...
Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattner, 1785. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, 32 folding engraved plates and some letterpress tables in text. 19th-century green half morocco, marbled paper sides. [48], 479, [9] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Including detailed information on tactical formations, with 13 engraved plates

[TISSOT, François Louis Pierre Auguste]. Cahiers militaires, portatifs. Contenant une nouvelle idée sur le génie & plusieurs autres pièces interessantes & utiles pour le lecteur.
Genève, J.A. Nouffer, 1778. 4to. With 13 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. “182” [=184] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Dissertation on military architecture by a student of the University of Salzburg

TÖRRING-JETTENBACH, Joseph Ignaz Felix and Edmund EGG. Tractatus de architectura militari.
Salzburg, Joannis Baptistae Mayr, 1700. Large 4yo (30 x 22 cm) With an engraved frontispiece, 17 engraved plates and 1 letterpress folding table. Spine reinforced with orange paper, with the frontispiece serving as provisional front wrapper and last leaf as back wrapper. [12], 153, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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