{"title":"Military \u0026 Warfare","description":"\u003cp\u003eArmies, strategy, battles, fortifications, and the history and theory of warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"garimberto-girolamo","title":"GARIMBERTO, Girolamo","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Garimberto  s important treatise on the art of warfare with the splendid and most appropriate provenance of Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, and a particularly rare example of a painted binding with the Duke s arms; a few examples are at the Bibliotheque Nationale; none, it appears, in Turin, or elsewhere in Italy. On the death of his brother Louis (1536), Emanuele Filiberto became successor to the throne of Savoy. He inherited in 1553, an almost empty honour, as the vast majority of his hereditary lands had been occupied and administered by the French since 1536. He started a most distinguished military career in 1543 when he entered the service of his uncle Charles V, with the aim of recovering his Duchy, and took part in the imperial victories in Ingolstadt (1546) and Mühlberg (1547). He later joined his cousin Philip II in Spain participating in the defence of Barcelona from French maritime attack in 1551 and he served with Ferrante Gonzaga in the guerrilla war between the Spanish and French in Piedmont. He was also a suitor to the future Queen Elizabeth I. In 1553 he was appointed lieutenant-general and supreme commander of the Spanish army in Flanders, and in 1556 governor of the Netherlands. In 1557 he won a decisive and brilliant victory against the French troops led by Anne de Montmorency and Gaspard de Coligny. In the subsequent Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559) Emanuele Filiberto was rewarded with the return of his estates. The peace was sealed by his marriage to Margaret, daughter of Francis I. A skilled political strategist, he took advantage of various squabbles in Europe to slowly regain territory from both the French and the Spanish, including the city of Turin which he made the capital of his new Kingdom. He is considered one of the chief founders of the state of Savoy. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Garimberto s treatise on warfare and government, based on the work of Machiavelli, would have been most useful to him. When he came to compose his book on warfare it was largely to the  Discoursi  and the  Arte della guerra  that he turned for inspiration, method, and subject matter - although he makes effective use of Fourquevaux s  Instructions  for more up to date information on modern battles... His procedure is to follow a general discussion of a particular issue with ancient examples especially from the Career of Julius Ceasar, and then to add modern and contemporary instances. The plan is not slavishly executed. Individual examples are themselves subjected to further scrutiny; and Garimberto is not unwilling to challenge Machiavelli. ... He comments on how military virtu has enabled men to rise from humble origins to high position; and he devotes a whole chapter to the preparations necessary to bring off a military coup.  Sydney Anglo, David Cressy.  Machiavelli - the First Century. . A most prestigious copy \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Carlo Richa is most probably the distinguished Piemontese professor and physician who published a major work  Morborum vulgarium historia  on the plague, in Turin in 1721, later translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARIMBERTO, Girolamo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816080056655,"sku":"L1434b","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L1434b-Garimberto-2.jpg?v=1781795321"},{"product_id":"pistofilo-bonaventura","title":"PISTOFILO, Bonaventura","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare first edition of this work on the use of pike, halberd and musket with 53 very precise and beautiful engravings, somewhat like Callot's in style and fineness. 34 plates are dedicated to the pike, 4 to the halberd and 15 to the musket. they seemed to have been engraved by Bertelli (Francesco(?)), who worked at Padua between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries (Benezit). The text explains the history and use of each of these weapons and the particular action or manoeuvre depicted in each plate. Each of the figures illustrated is numbered, corresponding to a numbered paragraph of the explanatory text, making the manual of very practical application. \u003cbr\u003e\n Bonaventura Pistofilo from Pontremoli was a notary for the Este family, then chancellor to Duke Alfonso I d Este, and a close friend of Ariosto. This work was dedicated to Sir Kenelm George Digby with his striking youthful portrait, probably done during his three years in Europe between 1620 and 1623. Digby (1603-1665) was an English author, diplomat, naval commander and one of the most fashionable figures of his day. He was known for his esoteric approach to science and advocacy of the  powder of sympathy , a  healing  powder of vitriol applied to a bandage taken from the wound which healed without any contact with the patient. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Ferdinando Palasciano (1815 - 1891) was an Italian physician and politician. He argued that any wounded or sick soldier was neutral on the battlefield and should be helped by any available doctor. Palasciano's speech at the International Congress at the Accademia Pontoniana of Naples (1861), had widespread influence and was the basis of the First Geneva Convention which founded the Red Cross (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PISTOFILO, Bonaventura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816085594447,"sku":"L1503","price":7950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_5351.jpg?v=1781795318"},{"product_id":"capobianco-alessandro","title":"CAPOBIANCO, Alessandro","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine copy of the first edition of this important, rare and profusely illustrated work by Capobianco, Captain of the Bombardiers of the city of Crema, that brings together all the technical advances in artillery in the C16, dedicated to Antonio Prioli (future Doge of Venice) and Lunardo Rossetti. By the middle of the 16th century Italian theorists and military architects had perfected the bastioned system of fortification and the Italian method was an admired standard throughout Europe. \"during the sixteenth century the emphasis shifts south of the Alps. And after 1550 Italian military writers dominate the field to the point of monopoly.\" (Horst de la Croix, 'The Literature on Fortification in Renaissance Italy'.) The use of cannons against these new bastioned fortresses required new tactical thinking, which Capobianco elaborates in this work. A veteran of many campaigns in both Italy and the Low Countries he was an expert gunner, though like many of his colleagues he was not a literary man, and his versatility and inventiveness are best shown by his plans and designs. A skilled bombardier, he presents the reader with a sweeping survey of the aims and techniques of artillery around the turn of the C16, starting with the technical use of cannon, their various types and specific purposes, the comparison of modern and 'antique' cannon, their manufacture, sighting etc. He then moves on to the tactics of artillery in defence and attack, the placement of cannons, their transportation, storage and the storage of munitions, the use of rockets and fireworks, and finishes with a brief but insightful description of 'modern' fortification, and bastion techniques. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The binding of this copy is identical in style, with the same central arabesque tool, to a book bound for Thomas Knyvett c. 1610, see David Pearson, English book binding styles 1450-1800, page 9, fig. 1.3. Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1618), barrister, of a leading Norfolk family with estates in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Staffordshire and Yorkshire started to build his splendid collection after the first flood of books and manuscripts from the monastic libraries. At his death his library numbered approximately 1,400 titles and 70 manuscripts on various subjects, as recorded in his library catalogue now in Cambridge University Library, which also received much of his collection in 1715. Favouring original texts, he became proficient in many languages, nurturing a particular love of Italian, owning at least 80 Italian books. Never a very rich man, the size of his library is extraordinary for the period, and it is likely that many of his books were obtained second hand. This binding is typical of those bound for his collection. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Sutton Place, built in 1530 for Sir Richard Weston, is celebrated as a pioneer of the Renaissance style in England, an early Tudor House, innovative for the symmetry of its design and its Italianate terracotta decoration. It was later the home of J. Paul Getty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAPOBIANCO, Alessandro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816120426831,"sku":"L680","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0080.jpg?v=1781795296"},{"product_id":"eutropius","title":"EUTROPIUS","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe impressive contemp. calf binding of this copy strongly resembles Oldham HM23  only one example is known  and is almost certainly English, though  many of the panels used in England no doubt came from the Netherlands  (Oldham p. 20). The text itself consists of a brief summary - the Epitome - of the Gallic Wars, taken from Suetonius  iconic work. Eutropius was a late Roman historian and secretary (magister memoriae) at Constantinople. Written in a straightforward narrative style, with none of the syntactical twists and turns of Suetonius  original Latin, the text rattles through the most important campaigns waged by Julius Caesar during the Gallic and Civil Wars, moving on to his Dictatorship and death at the hands of the Senate in only a few pages. This is followed by notes on the Commentary on Caesar s Gallic and Civil Wars, by Henricus Glareanus: these consist of short summaries of each book and explanations of any obscure place names or peoples (e.g. the tribe known as the Sedusi who, Glareanus tells us,  non sunt Seduni see Germani , referencing Pliny 4.17. Glareanus also explains, with a diagram, Caesar s battle formation, and the various numbers of his troops. The work ends with four alphabetical indexes: the first refers back to Glareanus  annotations on the commentary, the second gives the French equivalents of Roman place names and tribes mentioned in Caesar s text; the third, longer notes on these places and tribes, and the fourth is an index of Caesar s text itself. This beautifully bound edition must have been a very handy condensed textbook for any student of Caesar who had neither the time nor the inclination for the original work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EUTROPIUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816122032463,"sku":"L1853","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-27at6.47.34PM.png?v=1782582521"},{"product_id":"commines-philippe-de-1","title":"COMMINES, Philippe de","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of the first Italian translation of Commines' history, first published in 1544. It is the work of Nicholas Raince, about whom we have discovered nothing, and dedicated to Giovio. It does not appear to have been subsequently reprinted and examples of both editions are scarce. The classical restraint of the severely geometric binding contrasts happily with the richness of the morocco in texture and colour. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A most attractive volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"COMMINES, Philippe de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816122949967,"sku":"SN2102","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Commines-SN2102-1.jpg?v=1781795284"},{"product_id":"heywood-thomas","title":"HEYWOOD, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, extremely rare complete with the folding engraved plate, of Heywood s description, in prose and verse, of  The Sovereign of the Seas , the most famous warship of her day, and until then the largest and most expensive ship built in England. Thomas Heywood (c. 1574-1641) was a prolific author of plays, poetry, pageants, and pamphlets. During the early 1630s, he collaborated with members of the Christmas family of tomb sculptors in producing a series of Lord Mayor s Day pageants. In 1637, the same team created the elaborate decorative carvings for the biggest, most expensive, and most heavily-armed ship the world had ever seen, King Charles I s Sovereign of the Seas. Heywood had a hand in the decorative design and also wrote a commentary on the finished product. His  A True Description of His Majesty s Royall Ship  described the mythological, legendary, and allegorical subject-matter of the most prominent carvings and inscriptions. It also provided a descriptive chronicle of ships and navigators to serve as background to the portrait of the ship. The Sovereign of the Seas was an incredible architectural and engineering feat but also one of Charles I s greatest follies. Heywood s little-known book is of particular value to the history of Renaissance pageantry, sculpture, and iconography, and gives a unique account of a massive experiment in naval architecture by one closely involved.  Not only was the massive ship an extravagant exercise in royal and national propaganda, whose funding contributed materially to the widespread resentment over the issue of Ship Money and thus played its part in the cause of the English Revolution; it represented a feat of engineering which tested the limits of available technology for ends which had more to do with royal and national prestige than with military or economic usefulness,  The Sovereign of the Seas cost over 65,000 [pounds], roughly ten times the usual price of a 40-gun warship (and a cost-overrun of at least 50,000 [pounds] on the original estimate); 2,500 mature oak trees were felled to build her, and she had 102 cannon. But she saw action on only three or four occasions, during the Dutch Wars, and was eventually destroyed, in 1696, by a candle which a careless cook left burning in her gallery  Michael Bath, The Review of English Studies.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Thomas Heywood was born in Lincolnshire and is said to have been a fellow at Peterhouse College Cambridge; he was a member of the Lord Admiral s Company (1598) and composed lord mayor s pageants (in which capacity he succeeded Thomas Dekker). Heywood claimed to have contributed to some 220 plays; many are extent though most were not published. He attended the Queen s funeral in 1619 as  one of her Majesty s players.   Heywood himself appeared to endorse the the king s right to  the ship money  but this strange text was not only  Published by Authoritie  as the title page claims, but probably commissioned by royal authority too.  Richard Rowland  Thomas Heywood s Theatre, 1599 1639: Locations, Translations, and Conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEYWOOD, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816146313551,"sku":"L2813","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2813.jpg?v=1781794941"},{"product_id":"mendoza-bernardino-de","title":"MENDOZA, Bernardino de","description":"\u003cp\u003eExceptionally rare first edition of the English translation of Mendoza s guide to military strategy by Sir Edwarde Hoby, first published in Madrid in 1577 and rewritten for an edition of 1595, as a guide for the future Phillip III. The work begins as a treatise on government. Mendoza explains the offices and shapes of armies and exhorts the prince both to behave as one (he ironically owes much here to Castiglione s  Courtier ) to take appropriate care and consideration in his decisions, with especial regard to defence in times of peace. The author had recently written a study of the Duke of Alva s campaigns in the Low Countries, published in 1592, and was certainly brought close to military thinking in his brilliant diplomatic career, as ambassador to England for 10 years until the execution of Mary Queen of Scots (an event he refers to obliquely) and orchestrator of the pro-Spanish  Ligue  in France, which he ended by arranging the marriage of Henry IV to Phillip III s sister.  The Author who had served in the Netherlands under Alva, gives a clear and succinct account of the generals system. In an interesting passage on cavalry, he pronounces for the lance against the pistol, and describes the manner of handling the former arm Mendoza was the inventor of a piece of artillery made of metal, firing a shot of one pound weight, which he says would pierce a two foot wall; but neither the range or the charge is given. pp. 82-147 are on seiges; pp. 148-165 on naval matters.  Cockle \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  For Hoby, Guise was the epitome of the Renaissance general . We might wonder whether Hoby s intended audience appreciated the subtleties of his account of Guise s efforts at Calais, but Hoby himself was certainly aware of contemporary debates over the nature of effective military command. Two years after translating La Popelinière s  Histoire  he dedicated a translation of Bernardino de Mendoza s  Theorique and practise of warre , a treatise providing a first-hand account of the war in the Low Countries between 1567 and 1577, to his fellow Middle Temple Lawyer, Sir George Carew. Hoby served on diplomatic missions to Scotland and the continent, sat in the House of Commons and served as constable of Queenborough castle in Kent. His only recorded military experience was to accompany the Earl of Essex on the Cadiz expedition in 1596  Hoby s translation points to a new desire for objective, rational histories. .. This desire presumably overrode the potential objections that La Popelinère had been accused by Hugenots of a being a pro Catholic writer and the siege of Calais and the achievements of the Guise were not suitable subjects to be celebrated in English.  Joanna Bellis.  Representing War and Violence: 1250-1600.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n With exceptional provenance. From the library of the celebrated English bibliographer and collector William Herbert;  his edition of the  Typographical Antiquities  increased three times the size of the original of Ames. The unfinished edition of Dibdin has not superseded it, and it remains a monument of industry, and the foundation of our bibliography of old English literature.  DNB.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MENDOZA, Bernardino de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816153817423,"sku":"L2702","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/image-1_ec151296-d15c-47f9-83e7-345364a801d8.jpg?v=1781794926"},{"product_id":"dallington-sir-robert","title":"DALLINGTON, Sir Robert","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine copy of the first edition of this important and influential book of Aphorisms adapted from Guicciardini. The author had been introduced to Prince Henry in 1605, serving him for four years without reward; in 1609 Dallington presented Henry with a manuscript translation  Aphorismes civill and militarie , selected from the Italian historian Francesco Guicciardini. As a result of this gift Dallington was fee d as a gentleman-in-ordinary of the prince s chamber, joining the distinguished group of scholars who attended James I s high-minded heir. After the prince s death in 1612 Dallington reworked his Aphorismes for publication, published here with a new dedication to Prince Charles.  Improbably the ruse worked a second time, and Dallington became one of the few members of Prince Henry s household to be retained by the new heir. It has even been suggested that Charles may have derived his unfortunate persuasion that duplicity was a princely virtue from reading Dallington s Guicciardini.  (see ODNB). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  In 1613 Robert Dallington dedicates his Aphorismes Civill and Militarie to Prince Charles. The overt purpose of his work is to offer this future ruler lessons in political prudence. Dallington condenses educational episodes from the first five books of Guicciardini s Storia d Italia, introducing each with a moral of his own and sententiae from various sources. On the surface, the Aphorismes is a typical approach to methodising the art of prudence. Dallington is only one of many early modern authors to compile a collection of political wisdom based on the works of the famously prudent Guicciardini, but the Aphorismes stands out from similar works because of how the author approaches the challenge of cultivating the reader s prudence. Like other collectors, Dallington does methodize, order, and condense. However, Dallington s method does not simply arrange static precepts for easy consumption. Rather, Dallington employs a method of prudent indirection to immerse precepts in dynamic and complicating contexts that enable readers to develop skills of discretion and flexibility. Dallington not only adopts an essentially Ramist method to Baconian and Guicciardinian ideals of induction, but he also takes an Odyssean route to prudence, incorporating romance conventions of voyage and digression that transform his manual of prudence into something more adventurous and more effective than the typical aphorism collection.  Patricia Davis Patrick  Judgement in Early Modern England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DALLINGTON, Sir Robert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342616399,"sku":"L3381\/2","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7219-scaled.jpg?v=1781794837"},{"product_id":"norton-robert","title":"NORTON, Robert","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Robert Norton s important work, remarkably complete with all plates. Norton undertook to provide the English reader and especially gunner  who wants respect and encouragement  with the best continental writings on gunnery, artillery and all sorts of fireworks  for pleasure, triumph and war service ; largely adapted from Uffano s  Tratado de la artileria , reusing the splendid de Bry plates produced for that work. The text opens with definitions of terms, such as  swiftnesse ,  to mount  and  to expell . Next are the physical requirements of the gun, e.g.  That the superficies of the Columne of the Peece bee perfectly round,  followed by maxims:e.g.  The lighter are more moveable than the heavier.  The section concludes with 67 theorems of general and gun-related science: e.g.  A peece reverseth when it dischargeth .  The sinewes of the art of artillerie,  including mathematics and its practical applications in calculating numbers of troops, optimal formations and measuring towers etc are discussed, accompanied by numerous woodcut diagrams. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The main section of the text then addresses the practise of artillery, beginning with a definition. Topics covered are the inventors of guns and gunpowder, the distribution and use of early forms of weaponry in Europe, with their weights and measures included in tabular form, the materials required for the fabrication of various kinds of gun and cannons and potential problems, the construction of moulds for cannons and other weapons with diagrams illustrating the firing power of various guns, techniques and calculations to assure the gunner of a good shot, defend a besieged fortress, make counter-batteries, to tell if powder is suitable to fire, plant mines, transport equipment, and to make \"ordinary and extraordinary matches\". The work concludes with a chapter on \"artificiall fireworkes for tryumph and service,\" followed by engraved plates featuring armies, cannons, firing trajectories, calibre gauges, sailors coming to land, elaborate fireworks, and cavalry. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Robert Norton (d.1635) studied engineering and gunnery under John Reynolds, England s master gunner, later becoming a royal gunner. He published several works on mathematics and artillery, of which this was the last. His works were notable for their scientific explanation of gunnery and that of the mathematical principles on which it relied. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n An excellent copy, very rare complete with all the plates. ESTC calls for 27 plates; these plates were often split up and placed in half sheets in the text. This copy has the 27 numbered plates as issued, none have been split.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NORTON, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342714703,"sku":"L3441","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_4175-copy.jpg?v=1781794837"},{"product_id":"appier-hanzelet-jean","title":"APPIER HANZELET, Jean","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated first edition of Appier s book on pyrotechnics, though closely based with regard to both text and illustrations on his 1620 work on military machines and fireworks.  Dedicating the book, it is believed, to Gaston, duc d Orleans, the younger brother of Louis XIII, Hanzelet sought to instruct the royal prince in  the most ingenious, proven secrets of machines and fireworks for besieging, attacking, surprising and defending all places.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The running head of this military manual reads  Machines and Fireworks for War and Recreation,  but only 30 of its 264 pages would be of an help to  le Maitre du grand feu d artifice  preparing a spectacular pyrotechnical display for royal fete. Written midway through the Thirty Years War (1618 -48) Hanzelet s work is principally concerned with artillery, fortifications, bridges, barricades, pontoons, scaling ladders, mines, mortars, bombs, petards, and other infernal machines used to attack, besige and defend. It is profusely illustrated, almost every page carrying a well-executed engraving. Many appear fanciful rather than practical, but the only one showing how black powder was made is the last one in the volume.  Norman B. Wilkinson.  Making Powder, by Jean Appier Hanzelet.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Appier had previously published Recueil de Plusiers Machines Militaires, et feux Artificials, pour la Guerre s Recreation (Pont-a-Mousson, 1620), in collaboration with Francois Thybourel, a self-styled  Maistre Chyrurgien.  It is to that volume that Francis Malthus referred in the preface to his 1629 English edition of A Treatise of Artificial Fire-vrorkes. Following a bitter dispute with Thybourel concerning the order of names on the title-page of  A description of many military machines, and artificial fireworks for war and recreation  [the first edition was printed with two variant title-pages], Appier made certain that there would be no doubts about the authorship of The Pyrotechnics of Hanzelet Lorraine where are described the most rare and most learned secrets of machines and of fireworks when it was issued one decade later. Most of the text is cast in the form of a dialogue between a General and a Captain, with the reader benefiting from the Captain s sage advice; a literary device later used by Galileo in his Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Florence, 1632). Even though Appier introduced much new material on rockets, stars and other fireworks, such as squibs and crackers, in The Pyrotechnics, he also reused many of the engravings as well as some text from his earlier volume on military machines and fireworks.  Brown University Library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APPIER HANZELET, Jean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342780239,"sku":"L3371\/2","price":5250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7094-1.jpg?v=1781794836"},{"product_id":"ufano-diego","title":"UFANO, Diego","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine copy of one of the most famous books on the history of artillery, beautifully illustrated with 28 plates. Diego Ufano was a 16th-century Spanish military engineer with much experience in war in Spanish Flanders. This work was particularly influential in England; Robert Norton the English author of  The Gunner  was especially indebted. Translated by Johann Theodor de Bry (see Cockle), with plates copied in reverse by de Bry from the Spanish edition, De Bry also translated the work into German, and the plates are captioned in both languages. Ufano s most important contribution to the subject was this work on Artillery which details in depth 16th-century guns, cannon, rockets and ammunition. His notes and observations on gunners were well ahead of their time; they paint a very accurate view of warfare and tactics at the turn of the C16th. This book detailed notes on how to clean, load, aim, and fire muzzle-loading firearms to the beat of a drummer s drumroll. It also describes how to move cannons up a mountain, the manufacture of cannon, and references the use of cannon in the Philippines, China, and Tartary. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Diego Ufano, a Spanish captain of artillery who was in Antwerp early in the seventeenth century, describes the Spanish artillery used in the Low Countries. He also describes and figures an explosive bullet. It is a hollow ball filled with gunpowder, having a hole into which is inserted a tubular fuse, which is perforated; it is not said whether it is of wood or metal. The bomb or shell was not previously used in the war in the Low Countries but had been tried. Ufano also describes pots with narrow necks, filled with inceniary and bullets, which were thrown by cords and were (apparently ) fitted with wicks to ignite the contents. He describes a grenade containing the bomb in a spherical case with a cord, an incendiary arrow thrown from a crossbow, and a  trombe a feu  (called a  bombe  in the French transaltion) consisting of a cylinder into which the composition is pressed by a wooden stick. .. He also describes rockets (fus ées volantes) in great detail, and a petard for blowing open an armoured door.  J. R. Partington.  A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n In his work Ufano describes a method used for salvaging guns from under water, which had to be recovered after being lost when armies crossed rivers. The illustration shows one of the earliest depictions of a diver, using a large hood made of cow s hide. A respiration tube was connected to his helmet and was kept above his head by a pig s bladder, allowing the diver to work a few meters under water.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UFANO, Diego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342813007,"sku":"L3386\/2","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Screenshot-2024-08-06-at-14.25.37.webp?v=1781794835"},{"product_id":"gheyn-jacob-de","title":"GHEYN, Jacob de","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare  compact edition, in three parts of [Jacob de Gheyn s] Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen  ESTC. In this edition the engravings have been very finely reworked from the original as woodcuts, and the text is in French, Dutch, German and English. The work has a complex publishing history, with various Dutch, German, English, French and Danish editions appearing in Amsterdam and The Hague from 1607. Jacob de Gheyn s  Exercise of Armes  was an immense success. It is a fascinating seventeenth-century military manual, designed to instruct contemporary soldiers how to handle arms effectively, and correctly, and it makes for a unique glimpse into warfare as waged in the Thirty Years and the English Civil Wars. The manual uses illustrations to clearly demonstrate drills for soldiers employing calivers and muskets. It shows how to load and fire, or merely carry, a matchlock piece. In addition detailed illustrations show the various movements and postures to be adopted during use of the pike. There are 117 very fine woodcut illustrations. Gheyn s famous illustrated work was designed specifically for practical use on the muster ground. As well as profoundly changing military practice in Europe, the book also provided motifs for several kinds of decorative art. The Delft factories produced a series of tiles based on the engravings and at Clifton Hall in Nottinghamshire the designs were used for paintings on the panelling. Johann II, Count of Nassau-Siegen is often seen as the moving spirit behind the work. Resident in the Netherlands between 1592 and 1597 he took part in the military campaign against Spain and recorded his observations in his so-called  Kriegsbuch . In this, he concluded that arms drill as well as field drill were necessary for cavalry and infantry in the Dutch army, and conceived the idea of publishing an exercise manual for soldiers. An illustrated manuscript version of this work can be found in the Royal Library at The Hague, and it seems likely that this formed the basis for Gheyn s work. De Gheyn was an engraver by trade, having studied under Hendrik Goltzius whose engravings of Dutch officers in the 1580s probably influenced this work.  This edition in quarto is a much rarer book than the large folio published at the Hague in 1608, with copper-plate engravings. The reason is, no doubt, that this was intended for the use of the common soldiers  (Huth catalogue) who would have found the larger folio editions beyond their economic means as well as too bulky to carry. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n This edition is extremely rare: ESTC records three copies only (British Library, Ministry of Defence, and Bodleian).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GHEYN, Jacob de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820343107919,"sku":"L3262","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_6998-scaled.jpg?v=1781794834"},{"product_id":"hexham-henry","title":"HEXHAM, Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtremely rare first edition of this important military work, printed in Holland, one of two variants; this with the cancel title in English. This copy has the plates in fine contemporary hand colouring. Both editions are extremely rare. This variant is recorded in ESTC in three copies only, two at the Huntington Library and one at Harvard. The variant with the Dutch title page in recorded a unique copy, also at the Huntington. There is no copy of either in UK libraries. The work was reprinted in 1642 in England. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Hexham s long military career began when he was fifteen or sixteen. He was born in the Netherlands to English parents in circa 1585 and first served with Vere at Ostend and remained with him until his departure for England in 1604.   His three instruction manuals   were a tour de force of English military literature and a veritable catalogue of the Dutch contributions to the transformation of warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. .. Hexham was one of the most prolific soldier-authors of the early Stuart period and his contributions to English military literature are quite significant. His ties to Horace Vere and to many of the soldiers in the Vere circle is one more instance of the strong conections between Englands military writers and the countries leading military figures.  David R. Lawrence  The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  A number of British writers were influenced by this  Dutch-drill . Most notably John Bingham in his work on The Tactiks of Aelian (1616), John Cruso s Military Instructions for the Cavallrie (1632) and The Art of War, or Militarie Discourses (1639) and Henry Hexham s Principles of the Art Militarie  Hexham was Quartermaster to Colonel George Goring in the Dutch Wars (he became a royalist general in the civil war) and his work is a recognition of Maurice s achievements. It outlines, again in great detail, the structure of an army and roles of the officers and key non-commissioned officers; provides extremely detailed accounts of musket and pike drills with excellent diagrams; includes details and rates of pay as well as the ransoms to be paid for officers and finally a section on military law and the punishments. The second section concentrates on the various battles fought during the Thirty Years  War, but provides little explanation of how those formations were fought. A final section covers the artillery and engineers. While Hexham does not consider combined operations per se, he includes a pivotal section on the inclusion of cavalry squadrons to support the first line infantry in which he describes placing  Battallions of horse, interlaced, and placed betwixt the intervals, and distances of the Foote, as the ground necessity may require. For, if an Enemies Horse should be ranged betweene his Battallions of foote, it is needed then, that the other side should observe the same form likewise, and have horse to encounter horse, lest they should breake in upon the foote divisions . Nicolas Lipscombe,  Combined Arms Tactics in the English Civil War .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEXHAM, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820344516943,"sku":"K188","price":29500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7506-scaled.jpg?v=1781794823"},{"product_id":"smythe-sir-john","title":"SMYTHE, Sir John","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reissue, with expanded preliminaries and cancel title page, of  Certen instructions, observations and orders militarie  (STC 22884), by the great contemporary authority on archery, the soldier and diplomat Sir John Smythe. Smythe (1533-1607) gained his military experience as a volunteer in France, the Low Countries and Hungary. Well-read and fluent in Spanish, he was appointed Elizabeth I s special Ambassador to Spain on the 18 November 1576. After his ambassadorship, Smythe re-entered the political arena as a critic of the English involvement in the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries. In 1590 Smythe published  Certain Discourses , a fervent plea for the retention of the longbow as the weapon of choice for the English soldier. Citing both modern and ancient sources, Smythe recalls great victories won by the bow and associates its use with true manliness and English military potency. The book initiated a controversy on the relative strengths of bow and handgun, but it also contained vehement criticisms of the  new disciplinated men of war  who commanded English forces in the Low Countries.  Leicester s party now used their influence at court to obtain the suppression of the book, and having gained their end, they spread the report that its circulation was prohibited on account of its falsehood and foolishness, and that its author  was judged by her Majesty and her council  to have been for some years in his dotage.  Cockle. Smythe spent the months that followed unsuccessfully petitioning Lord Treasurer Burghley (his occasional patron) to have this suppression reversed.  The agitation caused by his first work having subsided  (Cockle) Smythe issued this second edition of the work, slightly expanded in its preliminaries. Cockle records that from the writings of Smythe and Patten \"it is possible to gather a good general state of the army in England in the middle of the sixteenth century... So conservative is the author, that he would reject any man for an archer who should draw his bow with two fingers, after the new fashion, instead of with three, after the old. .. 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Cockle catalogues the two works separately.  Owing, perhaps to having been brought out merely as a supplement to the  Art of war,  Whitehorne s book has almost been lost sight of as a separate work. It supplies information on the subjects not treated by Machiavelli, that is to say, on fortification, and the manner of making gunpowder, saltpetre, fireworks, etc. This information is collected chiefly from Italian writers; nevertheless Whitehorne must be allowed the honour of being the first Englishman to write on these subjects, though, as regards  fireworks , it is Bourne to whom the credit is usually given. There is an interesting chapter on signalling, based on the actual systems of Aeneas, Tacitus and Polybius.  Cockle. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The method many would-be reformers used to suggest improvements in training was the military book, which became increasingly popular in England during the 1570s and 1580s. The first influential military book of the Elizabethan period, Peter Whitehorne s  Certain waies for the orderyng of souldiers in battelray  was printed in 1560. (sic). The work, which accompanied Whitehorne s translation of Machiavelli's  Art of warre  came from the press of the London printer John Kingston for Nicholas England. Like so many of the military authors, Whitehorne was a veteran, a former soldier in the army of Charles V, the King of Spain and the holy Roman Emperor and he served throughout the Mediterranean during Charles's campaign against the Turks in the 1550s.  Certain waies for the orderyng of souldiers in battelray  opened with a discussion of how to organise men into battle squares and also include the chapters on fortification, siegecraft, and artillery, the first in English to address the transformation of siege warfare that had been taking place on the Italian peninsula. The book, written with the express purpose of training the ranks to operate as a cohesive unit in the field, was also one of the first English military books to include text and diagrams depicting various infantry formations used on the continent. New additions of appeared in 1573 and 1588, each been printed with Machiavelli's treaties on war. .. Whitehorne was the first Englishman to write on the subject of gunnery    David R. 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A year before the publication of this work, Neade presented the manuscript to Charles I, who commanded that the author should exhibit his new weapon in St James's Park, in his presence; which was done. Neade petitioned the king to make the use of his new invention compulsory, and he and his son were shortly after authorised by proclamation to instruct  all those who are fit to exercise arms in the use of the weapon: especially the chiefe officers and all others of our Trayned-bands.  The author commences with a short history of the occasions on which the bow has been successfully employed in battle, and attempts to refute the objections which had been made against it. His opinion of gunpowder, may be gathered from the following passage:  Amongst all which, Bartholdus Swart, the Franciscan Fryer, with his most devillish Invention of Gunpowder, is the most damnable, and from hell itself invented.  He gives the range of an arrow at from 18 to 20 score yards, and says that six of them could be discharged in the time it took to load and fire one musket. The chief advantage of his combination of bow and Pike was that pikemen, by using their bows, would be able to take part in the preliminary actions of a battle, where before they have been lookers-on only. When the enemy had approached to within about six score yards, the bow was to be fastened to the pike and the ranks closed. If attacked by cavalry, the first five or six ranks were to charge pikes, whilst those in the rear were to continue discharging the arrows. The bow was fastened to the pike at the place where the latter is shouldered.  Cockle. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Despite the earlier royal encouragement, Neade s invention was not taken up, the bow having by this time been ousted from the battlefield by the musket. Neade, describing himself and his son as  instructors in archery to the king,  complained to the king in 1637 that, despite several demonstrations of his weapon, he had exhausted his entire estate of ¬¨¬£600 to no avail, and that through the bad example of the City of London, archery was now generally neglected. There was no official response to these pleas and, apart from some references to his book, nothing further is known of Neade or his son.  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James I, the father-in-law of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, was anxious to furnish his needs for the recovery of the Palatinate, but it was not until January 1625 that Mansfeld and his army of \"raw and poor rascals\" sailed from Dover to the Netherlands \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The death of James I in March 1625 and the accession of Charles I did little to change the fortunes of war for the English. Charles inherited his fathers chief minister, George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, and both men were eager to lead the country in a war against Spain, particularly after the embarrassing collapse of the Spanish match and the return of Charles and Buckingham from Madrid in 1623. That return led to the  Blessed revolution , the sea change in English foreign policy that saw a renewal of the old animosity between London and Madrid and the declaration of war against Spain in 1624. The decision to go to war with Spain was greeted with cheers by those who felt Jameses government would now put its full backing behind any military operations against the Spanish, thereby avoiding the debacles that marked the expeditions commanded by Vera and Mansfield. George Marcelline summed up the concerns of many in his Vox Militis (1625), a reprinting of Barnabe Rich s Allarme to England (1578), that warned that the English lived  without regard of Militarie discipline  and were being forced to stand and behold their friends in apparent danger  almost subverted by there enemies unjust persecution and yet with hold[ing] their helping hand and assistance . Marceline, who dedicated his treatise to Mansfeld, wished to resurrect the reputation of the English soldier, which by this time had taken a beating. Yet his hopes, and those of the nation, were dashed once again when another foray to the continent in 1627, this time in support of the Danes, also faltered.  David R. Lawrence. 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Foreign writers, too, were making similar accusations, notably Marcos de Isaba, who, in the  Cuerpo enfermo de la Milicia Espanola , waxes very bitter on the subject. Both in English and foreign armies, officers, from the commander in chief to the captain of the band, where engaged in defrauding one another and the private soldiers. If the men clamoured for pay, license for pillage quieted them, or, in some cases, a still surer remedy was found; generals when deep in debt to any troops would send them on some desperate service, wherein most of them were sure to perish. Four pages of Paradoxes I are devoted to a comparison between a good and a bad paymaster; and much of Paradox II to another between modern discipline and the discipline of the Greeks and Romans. Digges maintains the former,  In spite of the late invention of gunpowder,  to be vastly inferior to the latter, and he cites thirty points of difference between the two systems in support of his views. Indeed the English militia had become so inefficient as to make reform imperative. Captains, being paymasters of their own bands, made use of their position to pocket the mens  pay; drill was neglected, and no dependence could be placed on soldiers, who, taken from the lowest class, thought nothing of running from the enemy. Smythe, though an opponent of Digges, corroborates these statements. Digges was a reformer, and certainly a good friend to the private soldier;.  Cockle.   In 1604 a volume was published entitled  Four Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses , containing two essays by Thomas Digges, and two by Dudley Digges, his son, and the stepson of Shakespeare's testamentary overseer. One of Dudley s essays is in praise of the soldiers profession. In the other he argues  That warre sometimes  is  less hurtfull and more to be wisht in a well Governd state than peace . War, he declares, is better than  luxurious idleness   With this may be compared the dialogue on the advantages of war in Coriolanus IV. v.. Digges proceeds to discuss the use of war as a means of curing internal dissensions, his main example being the story of Coriolanus taken directly from North s Plutarch, though with the insertion of one phrase from Livy.   we cannot be sure that Shakespeare had read  Foure Paradoxes , though he might have done so out of neighbourly interest. In Coriolanus he uses the metaphor of breaking out in three places, though his use of it is not confined to this play.   Although, therefore, Shakespeare could have developed his conception of the play from Plutarch's lives, Digges may well have contributed to the atmosphere of the play with his praise of the military hero, his claim that the  discommoditie of our long peace opprest by luxurie  is  worse farre than warrre , and his retelling of the Coriolanus story as an example of the way foreign wars can be used to cure sedition.  Kenneth Muir.  The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DIGGES, Thomas, DIGGES, Dudley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820345565519,"sku":"L3469","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7813-scaled.jpg?v=1781794816"},{"product_id":"privy-council","title":"PRIVY COUNCIL","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis rare work, one of only five copies in the UK, provides instructions for the correct techniques and layout of musters. 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The instructions for the musket are confined to directions for the delivery of volleys, both in attacking and in retreating; for the manual exercise or  postures   His Excellencies Booke  is named as the standard. The rest refers to the drill of Pikemen, and to the exercising and arming of the Infantry generally, and of the Cavalry, who are divided into Cuirassiers, and Harquebusiers and  Dragons;   the two terms seeming interchangeable .  \u003cbr\u003e\n Corresponding with textual commands are the numbered images with detailed descriptions written below designed to teach the reader about military discipline. Detailed guidelines teach the reader how to march, unshoulder, prepare, aim and shoot their muskets. Following on from this is a similar step by step guide demonstrating the correct usage of a pike. This publication  was a significant step toward bringing about the codification and standardization of militia training that had been debated since the Elizabethan period  (David Lawrence, The complete soldier, 2009, p. 136). The publishers, working on behalf of King James I, were the Privy Council of England. They advise the monarch on interdepartmental matters at select Privy Council Meetings. \u003cbr\u003e\n Henry Beaufoy, the previous owner, was a Member of Parliament from 1783 to 1795. Educated at Edinburgh University, Beaufoy went on to join the Royal Society as a Fellow prior to his stints as Member of Parliament for Minehead and Great Yarmouth. 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Charles attempted to impose bishops on the Scots, leading Scots to expel them from the kirk. Charles responded by marching 20,000 English soldiers up to Edinburgh as well as sailing 5,000 naval troops to Aberdeen. The king chose to fund the mission with his own resources rather than Parliament s. This book was created when the army had marched as far as Newcastle, en route to Berwick-upon-Tweed where they were planning to muster. It sought to instruct the mainly untrained conscripts the complexities and correct practices of war and was distributed and read out to the soldiers. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Key emphasis is given to correct moral and religious behaviour, i.e. no blasphemy, gambling,  whoredom , nor drunkenness. Charles insists on soldiers behaving like gentlemen, and any that engage in  notorious crimes  like  willfull murders, rapes, burning of houses, thefts, outrages, unnatural absues  and so on will be mortally punished. Attention is paid to the respectful treatment of women and children, with no dishonest touching permitted. Treachery, mutinies, disrespecting authority, cowardice, deception and idleness have the appropriate punishment for each described. The detail reveals the inexperience of the army Charles was heading. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The 14th Earl of Arundel, Thomas Howard (1586-1646), is described as the general of Charles  armed forces. Howard was a lover of the arts and travel, and his appointment to this role baffled the aristocracy including Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, who stated  he had nothing martial about him but his presence and looks.  Howard was not enlisted to lead any forces during the second Bishops  War of 1640. The printer, Robert Barker (c. 1570-1643), had a long and complex career. He had served James I and had printed both the King James Bible and the infamous  Wicked Bible . Barker was called to the press during Charles  march northwards, and arrived to serve the King around May 8th 1639. Having published a proclamation about butter and a printing of Bishop Morton s sermon, Barker produced the Lawes and Ordinances of Warre, which was allegedly read aloud  in a miserable cold morning with hail and snow.  Perhaps this, along with the disorganisation of Charles and his army, the ineptness of Howard as a military leader, and the untrained and unruly soldiers, explains why the first Bishops  War was concluded with favour to the Scots. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n From the libraries of George Dunn of Woolley Hall (1864-1912) and Thomas Francis Fremantle, Lord Cottesloe (1862-1956). George Dunn was a prolific collector of books and a keen student of palaeography and early printing. He accumulated a fine library at Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, consisting of English law books, medieval manuscripts and early stamped bindings. 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The binding tools are crude and the style simple when compared with the work of the great binding centres but it is rare to find such a charming, unsophisticated example of such provincial work. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n An excellent copy of the second Soncino edition of this important work on the art of war, quoted by Machiavelli.  Less common than the first Pesaro edition of 1507  (Manzoni). This is one of only six works produced by the Jewish printer Gershom Soncino (d. c.1537) in Ortona, then governed by the Spanish viceroys, and one of the few in the vernacular. The dedication to Count Luigi del Montorio requested protection to settle his press in Naples.  Jews were banned from the territories of the Kingdom of Naples   Most probably, Gershom was granted leave to settle in Ortona for his professional printing skill and given his acquaintance with important Roman personalities  (Campanini, 44). Antonio Cornazano (1430-c.1483) was a prolific author on subjects as varied as dance and proverbs. In blank verse c.1476,  De re militaria  was first published in 1493. Soncino s typographical layout reprised the cursive octavo of the Aldine  enchiridion ; rated as a sophisticated edition, it was also more expensive than its similar counterparts (Nuovo, 70). Cornazano was the first to adapt in print Vegetius s 4th-century  De re militari  the only ancient work on Roman warfare to have survived intact which he adjusted to the changing needs of early modern military practice. His work discussed the ideal soldier (literacy, endurance, virtue), the importance of good horses (where they breed in Italy, their features, how to shoe them, how to treat their ailments), ancient and modern armour, dos and don ts in war (never destroy churches, never start wrong wars), the virtues of the good captain (in battle, after victory), spies, and the circulation of fake news to scare the enemy. 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It advertises itself as  the onely rare booke of myllitarie profession: drawne out of all our late and forraine services . The book promises to cover  the true steppes of warre, the perfect path of knowledge, and the playne plot of warlike exercises , and to  shew and teach the order of the Fielde, the duety of Officers, the charge of Generals, the arte of Warre, \u0026amp; the whole discipline belonging to the exercises of Armes, and marshalling of a Campe and Armie . The work chiefly contains  descriptions of the establishing, manning, and equipping of virtually every possible battle formation and troop encampment  (Acheson, 2011, 152). Garrard combines classical military theory with personal experience, and reflects on contemporary developments in the technology of warfare. He coined the phrase  loop-hole  in this work, in relation to the building of a fortification. His writing is clearly influenced by contemporaries, particularly Digges and Thomas Styward.\r \r The 7 folding woodcut plates depict elaborate encampments and formations, and include representations of soldiers, cannons, fortifications, and geographical features. This text features 72 woodcut illustrations as well as the 7 foldouts of varying sizes. Some 25 of the illustrations are diagrams formed with type characters used for the rest of the text, while others are formed from woodcut characters massed into formations. The remaining illustrations are diagrammatic woodcuts. The woodcuts are simple, but the images are crisp and clear. Particularly notable is the first of two folding plates on p. 189,  The battell called a crosse, verie excellent for both night and daie : it unusually conveys three-dimensional space depicting the rows of soldiers in battle formation. It also depicts naturalistic figures, as a contrast to the typographical illustrations found elsewhere. The plate on p. 253, showing  A Waie to March , also depicts naturalistic figures, both cavalry and infantry in battle formation, but in two-dimensional space. Hichcock s preface describes the illustrations as both an aid to memory and a selling point of the book.\r \r Garrard was a businessman, banker, and slave trader, but also had personal experience in military affairs: he served  the King of Spayne in his warres fourteene yeeres , as he claims on the titlepage, and was a veteran of the Dutch wars. This copy includes a dedicatory letter by Garrard addressed to Robert Devorax, Earle of Essex, who was executed for treason in 1601 after a failed coup d  état against the government. 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It is a compendium of practical knowledge, handsomely illustrated and solidly grounded in arithmetic and geometry, spanning a variety of questions, e.g., how to attack a fortified target, the organisation of a warehouse, the loading and trajectory of cannon balls (considering their weight), the use of instruments to assess the distance of a target, how to shoot at night, the making and use of fireballs and sundry other fireworks. Most interesting is the section on gas warfare methods ( poisoning of the air ), not much esteemed by master-gunners at the time.  These consisted chiefly in cylinders or bombs filled with mineral poisons, poisonous plants and animals. Such materials as sublimate of mercury and arsenic, henbane, aconite, belladonna and hemlock were used. They were generally mixed with black powder and were doubtless of no effect , as they were mostly used outdoors ( Chem. Warf. Bulletin , 3). 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Marolois was one of the first writers to publish the abbreviation  Sin E  to denote the sine of an angle. He fortified cities by using geometrical calculations which can be seen in the extensive foldout engravings. Examples include the city of Coevorden which utilised a heptagon shape. He is considered to be the creator of the  Dutch route  or Fausse Braye, a parapet which is traced parallel to the enceinte (the enclosing wall) of a fortified place between the enceinte rampart and main ditch. This meant that the attacking army would have had to overpower the first enceinte before advancing onto the main rampart. Marolois was the amongst the first to write poliorcetic works (books about the siege of cities); these were used widely in Holland and Europe until advances in artillery towards the end of the 17.th. century outmoded them.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .This work was published during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), where novel military models were being developed. Because the fighting was occurring in the Netherlands, they were  especially adapted to mud flats, alluvial and coastal terrains, and harbours defended by sluices, floodgates and iron chains  (Mateus, Jo‚àö¬£o M.  The Science of Fortification in Malta in the Context of European Architectural Treatises and Military Academics , 2006).  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n . Albert Girard (1595-1632) was a French-born mathematician who contributed to Marolois s work  in the form of observations  (Cockle 139). He was the first to use  sin ,  cos  and  tan  for the trigonometric functions in a treatise, as well as giving the inductive definition for the Fibonacci numbers. English mathematician Charles Hutton described Girard as  the first person who .understood the general doctrine of the formation of the coefficients of the powers from the sum of the roots and their products. 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Ferretti was a knight of Santo Stefano, a Roman Catholic Tuscan military order founded by Cosimo I de Medici in 1561. It was originally created in order to fight the Ottoman Turks as well as pirates in the Mediterranean, and the order took part in Spanish attacks on the Ottomans including the siege of Malta in 1565 and the Battle of Lepanto in 1571  Ferretti gained military experience and insight during these pivotal battles. American historian Lynn White calls Ferretti a  famous (military) engineer  and states that this work  was well known in later years  ( Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays  1978, p. 170). Ferretti s tact and skill with diplomatic and military affairs were harnessed by the Duke of Urbino in 1557 when he was sent to London to encourage Philip II to free the Count of Landriano from prison in the castle of Milan. This work draws from Machiavelli s famous Arte della Guerra (1521), despite it having been placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Both writers drew heavily from classical sources when compiling their military writings. Ferretti subscribed to the late Roman author Vegetius s (4.th. c AD) military treatise  De re militari , which advised that soldiers should be trained to a level of utter discipline and order, and that this training should be for a minimum for four months prior to deployment. Vegetius s popularity had increased in the late 15.th. century due to the success of the first printed editions from 1473 onwards. Giovanni Matteo Cicogna was a scholar and historiographer from Verona who specialised in military tactics and battle formations. Cicogna s humanist tendencies are shown in the employment of Roman and Macedonian battle lines including the phalanx. Cicogna pioneered the use of woodcut tables to demonstrate specific amounts and differing layouts of troops. This form of visual instruction went on to be used by other major military strategists including Giorgio Basta..  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a French historian, president of the Paylement de Paris and a copious book collector. He formed an international network of connections and allies, including Arnaud d Ossat, François Hotman and Joseph Justus Scaliger and served both Henry III and Henry IV, he negotiated the Edict of Nantes. Under Marie de Medici he became conseil des finances and died in Paris in 1617. He wrote a number of works including his great historical chronicle Historia sui temporis which was inspired and fuelled by his extensive library. De Thou was the greatest French book collector of his day, of whom it was long said that a man had not seen Paris who had not seen the library of de Thou.  The De Thou library had a reputation as the finest private collection of its day; it numbered about 6,600 volumes at his death, and was greatly increased by his children.  P. Needham, Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings. This work is more recently from the library of renowned military literature collector .Thomas Francis Fremantle, Lord Cottesloe (1862-1956. .Lord Cottesloe acquired one of the most complete collections of military books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FERRETTI, Francesco. [with] CICOGNA, Giovanni Matteo.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859630661967,"sku":"L3436","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Untitled-2-2.jpg?v=1781793794"},{"product_id":"de-salazar-diego","title":"DE SALAZAR, Diego.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Attractively bound second edition of this work taken from Machiavelli s Arte della Guerra by the Spanish solder and author Diego de Salazar. The early date of the first edition of this work (1536) makes it the first translation and adaptation into any language of a work by Machiavelli. De Salazar adds his own Spanish ideals and perspective as well as referencing Machiavelli s work. De Salazar analyses the essential characteristics of armies in the first half of the sixteenth century, as well as consistently referencing examples from antiquity. He addresses topics including combat, discipline, recruitment, and evaluates the characteristics of different weaponry. This is one of the first texts of its kind to be published by a Spanish author (Merino, Esther,  Los autores espa‚àö¬±oles de los tratados  De Re Military . Fuentes para su conocimiento: los Preliminares , 1994). Palau 341 states  De Re Militari hecho a manera de dialogo que passo entre los Illustressimos Se‚àö¬±ores Don Gonçalo Fernandez de Cordova y Don Pedro Manrique de Lara En el qual se contienen muchos exemplos de grades Principes, y Senores, y excellentes avisos, y figuras de Guerra muy provechoso para Cavalleros, Capitanes, y Soldados. .  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Machiavelli s Dell arte della Guerra, or the Art of War, takes the form of a Socratic dialogue. The essential purpose of the publication is to honour  virtus , and to describe the ideal order of a military system. Macchiavelli describes the role of the military as the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents inside. It was the only work printed during the Italian diplomat s lifetime, and is dedicated to Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi. The treatise insists that war must be expressly defined. He developed the philosophy of  limited warfare    that is, when diplomacy fails, war is an extension of politics. 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The lion features heavily on the coats of arms of both Netherlands and Belgium and the depiction was a powerful byword for patriotism during the war in the Low Countries.  The portraits are excellent likenesses of important figures from both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamiano Strada was a Jesuit historian and moralist who taught at the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits in Rome. This work was commissioned by Ranuccio I Farnese in 1595 and was written with the assistance of Alexander Farnese (1545-1592). It was first published in 1632 and translated into Dutch in 1646. The book evocatively describes the scents and colours of the battle between the Spanish troops led by the Duke of Parma and the Dutch troops led by the Staten-Generaal van Willem van Oranje. In 1579 the northern provinces had established their independence as the United Provinces of the Netherlands, leaving the south under Catholic control as the Spanish Netherlands; at the time this work was first published the war with Spain was still continuing. It was only in the year this edition was produced, 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years War, that Spain recognised Dutch independence. The work was criticised by the Dutch for its pro-Spanish stance. Strada defended himself by stating that the supporters of Orange did not fight for religious conviction but merely defended the material interests of the secular nobles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese volumes were handsomely bound for Gilbert Watts. Born in Yorkshire, the son of Richard Watts of Barnes Hall, Watts the younger attended Lincoln College, Oxford before becoming Rector of Willingdale Doe, Essex, in 1621. He produced an English translation of Bacon’s De augmentis scientiarum in 1640 entitled ‘Of the advancement and proficiencie of learning’ (STC 1167). Watts bequethead his library to Lincoln College – “soe many bookes as cost mee threescore pounds”, to be selected by Bodley’s librarian Thomas Barlow. The armorial binding on these volumes is typical of his collection, which were often bound in dark brown calf with gilt edges.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eEdwin Wilkins Field (1804-1871) was a prominent English lawyer and painter who was a passionate advocate for chancery reform. Field also worked to establish artistic copyright through the Fine Arts Copyright Act of 1862. 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Alfonso d Este allegedly imposed as a condition on Brancaccio s coming that he should not brag about his military achievements (Newcomb,  The Madrigal , 95), of which he was notoriously proud, after his campaigns with Charles V, Henry II and Francis I, as well as the Spaniards in Tunis, across the 1550s-70s.  Il Brancatio , from its original title, was first published in 1582; this edition was a reprint. It is based on an abridged translation of Julius Caesar s  De bello gallico   no less useful than necessary to those who wish to know the true military discipline and art . After a long dedication  to Princes , Brancaccio presents a short treatise on the legions and arms of the Romans. The following chapters include extracts marked  Cesare , with an excerpt from  De bello gallico  usually focusing on specific battles, each followed by an  avvertimento  by Brancaccio, based on his military experience, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the winners and the defeated. 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After completing his studies at the Krak‚àö‚â•w Academy, he became secretary to the famous military commander Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and later worked as a preceptor to many young nobles. He travelled to Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and France. Exceptionally prolific, he wrote about 70 works in Latin and Polish on many different subjects, including law, politics, theology, the military arts, philosophy, customs, literature and history. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Sarmatiae Bellatores  is one of Starowolski s most famous works, comprising biographical accounts of Polish warriors from the Mieszko I (c. 922\/45-992) to Stefan Chmielecki (1580-1630). Intended for a foreign public, its purpose was to counter international views that questioned the military prowess of the Poles.  The mythical common descent of all nations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the ancient Sarmatian warrior-heroes, who successfully resisted Roman attempts to conquer them, was fashioned into a statement of the Commonwealth s constitutional and political superiority over West European societies oppressed by absolute royal power. Szymon Starowolski founded his reputation as a patriotic historian early on by collecting a pantheon of Sarmatian heroes, of bellatores et scriptores, who included representatives of all nations of the Commonwealth   References to great historical rulers and nations pointed at the imitation of past virtue  (Friedrick).  Medieval heroes in Starowolski s Sarmatiae Bellatores of 1631 fight, plunder, demolish, and destroy with fire and sword (the favourite phrase of this historian), and only rarely do they build something in their domains.  (Barbara Arciszewska) Starowolski s work is  an interesting attempt to represent the Ruthenian [i.e. East Slavic] and Lithuanian nobility as part of the Polish-Sarmatian noble nation, as well as to include Ukranian Cossackdom in that national model.  (Plokhy) \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The Nordkirchen bookplate combines the blazons of M‚àö¬∞ria von Plettenberg-Wittem (1809-1861) and of her husband Mikl‚àö‚â•s Ferenc Esterh‚àö¬∞zy de Gal‚àö¬∞ntha (1804-1885), to whom she brought the Nordkirchen castle as part of her dowry. In 1903, the castle and its library passed to Herzog Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg (1872-1949). 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Book I is devoted to ancient times, prefaced by a handsome engraving of an ancient  naumachia , a popular spectacle, whereby a theatre was flooded and small ships faced one another in a choreographed battle. ..The account begins with the obscure ..origins of navigation and the invention of ships, ancient myths of navigation (e.g., Jason), the most important ancient Greek and Roman sea battles, with observations on the kinds of vessels used, how victors at sea were honoured on return, and maritime spectacles staged in ancient cities. The section on ancient hydrography is a description of the seas, coasts and coastal cities of antiquity, based on ancient sources and providing the modern equivalent of historic place names. It is illustrated with several half-page maps, based on De Bry, including the Iberian peninsula, Britain and Ireland, sundry parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Greece. Book II proceeds through the medieval period, analysing major sea battles by the Gauls, Normans, Britons, Germans, Russians, Poles, and so on, down to Morisot s times. A couple of sections focus on England, with a summary of key maritime battles since antiquity, and a discussion of C16 maritime policy (e.g., Thomas Seymour as Lord Admiral), voyages (e.g., Francis Drake and Raleigh in the Americas), and early colonies (e.g., Thomas Gates and Thomas Hamond in Virginia, and the establishment of Nova Scotia). Morisot continues with a critique of John Selden s  Mare Clausum , a theory of territorial waters. Morisot provides illustrations of medieval or contemporary coins or medals representing the king or emperor through maritime iconography. Among the numerous voyages that are mentioned are also Columbus s 1492 voyage, followed by Spanish explorations of South America, de Veer s expedition to the Antarctic, Magellan s explorations in the southern hemisphere, and Portuguese travels in Brazil and Asia. The accounts are factual and detailed, peppered with anecdotes and maritime folklore. A handsome copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MORISOT, Claude Barth élemy.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868670402895,"sku":"L4155","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4155-2.jpg?v=1781793665"},{"product_id":"giovio-paolo-domenichi-ludovico","title":"GIOVIO, Paolo; DOMENICHI, Ludovico.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe charming contemporary binding, produced in a skilled provincial workshop most probably in Tuscany, displays the influence of 1540s-early 1550s Roman bookbinding. The models for the curl tools and the geometrical knot on the inner border are found on bindings produced for the great bibliophiles Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (cf. de Marinis I, 739, 751) and Antonio Filareto (cf. de Marinis I, 857). In the second half of the C16, the ‘pilgrim’ watermark, on the eps here, appears most frequently in north-western Italy, but also Pisa and Sicily (cf. Briquet).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA very good copy of the second edition in Italian of Paolo Giovio’s famous biography of the Spanish general Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453-1515), considered the first to make gunpowder weapons an integral part of warfare. Written in Latin c.1525 and published by the historian Giovio (1483-1552) in 1549, it was translated into Italian by Ludovico Domenichi in 1550. Known as ‘El Gran Capitán’, Fernández de Córdoba was a key figure in the Conquest of Granada (1481-91) and the Italian Wars (1494-1505). ‘The ambassador of Charles V to Rome, Luis Fernández de Córdoba, duke of Sessa, commissioned Giovio to vindicate the reputation of his father-in-law, Gonzalo, the most brilliant general of the age. After winning the kingdom of Naples from the French, the “great captain” had been forced into retirement in Spain by the jealousy of Ferdinand of Aragon, who suspected him of wanting the crown of Naples for himself, and the duke of Sessa feared that the great soldier’s reputation was being diminished by official annalists and “foolish poets”’ (Zimmerman, p.65). The work begins with Domenichini and Giovio’s dedications to the Captain, proceeding with the faction wars of the house of Córdoba, a detailed account of Gonzalo’s feats at the siege to reconquer Granada from Muslim dominion, and during the Italian Wars whereby Naples was brought under Spanish rule. Giovio’s work achieved great popularity, rescuing the reputation of the captain who first integrated the use of gunpowder weapons into the Spanish artillery, with the help of battlefield fortifications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GIOVIO, Paolo; DOMENICHI, Ludovico.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868671320399,"sku":"L3752","price":4950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3752-1.jpg?v=1781793663"},{"product_id":"botero-giovanni-2","title":"BOTERO, GIOVANNI.","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Botero (1544–1617) was an Italian political theorist from Piedmont. He studied at the Roman College, where he was classmates with Robert Bellarmine; in 1582 he became secretary to Cardinal Carlo Borromeo. In 1599 he joined the court of Carlo Emanuele I, duke of Savoy, in Turin, acting as tutor to the duke’s three eldest sons: Filippo Emanuele, Vittorio Amedeo, and Emanuele Filiberto. Botero wrote ‘I Prencipi’ (The Princes) – a set of three historical portraits of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Scipio Africanus – as an aid-text for the moral education of his three students. Each mini biography is conceived of as a ‘noble mirror’ (‘nobilissimo specchio’) which the young prince may use to pleasantly arrange ‘not his face or hair, but his judgement and soul’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of Botero’s ‘Aggiunte alla Ragion di Stato’ (‘Additions to the Reason of State’) containing extensive additions and expansions to his major ‘Della ragion di stato’ (1589), which had become an international bestseller. Fifteen Italian editions appeared before 1700, six Spanish by 1606, a French in 1599, three Latin editions between 1602 and 1666. (Robert Birely). The ‘Additions’ begin with a section entitled ‘On the Virtues of the Ancient Captains’, which considers the individual merits of ancient military commanders including Themistocles, Pompey, and Hannibal. Short essays on topics such as reputation, military agility and fortification follow, and the work concludes with a short treatise on oceanography. Aside from this last treatise, the essays in the Additions are all cast in the mirror-for-princes mould and are written for a courtly audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Yelverton, 1st Viscount de Longueville (1664 -1704) inherited the title of 15th Baron Grey of Ruthin in 1679. He supported William of Orange during his invasion in 1688, and in 1690 was created Viscount de Longueville. He amassed a substantial library which remained in his family until dispersals in the late 18th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (1728 – 1798) was M.P. for Stafford from 1754 to 1780. He was created Baron Bagot 17 October 1780. “We do not know the extent of his library, but in his will he expressed the wish that his books (together with his coins, medals, marbles, furniture and pictures) should not be sold but remain with his estate, inherited by his son William, who succeeded as 2nd Baron. The family library, at Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire was dispersed by Sotheby’s, 26 November 1945.” (David Pearson)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOTERO, GIOVANNI.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868703334735,"sku":"L3178","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_5499.jpg?v=1781793439"},{"product_id":"azzi-tommaso","title":"AZZI, Tommaso.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of this uncommon work which passes off as a treatise on the game of chess, but actually tackles broader juridical questions. Tommaso Azzi was a jurist from Fossombrone, of whom very little is known.  De ludo   is not properly a treatise on chess, but a collection of arguments concerning more or less controversial juridical questions, of various kinds, using as a starting point observations connected with the game of chess. Only some parts are connected to the game, its appropriateness, nature, and rules  (Marchetto, p.284). Each of the 12 sections is based on a unifying chess theme, such as the nature of the game, its definition and similarities with 'a just war , with two armies facing each other, the origins of the game and why it was introduced, the characteristics of each pawn (with a symbolic interpretation), its appropriateness for clerics, its rules, and the appropriate behaviour of those watching a chess game. Connections with war are highlighted in its origins, for instance, it was probably invented to keep soldiers busy during interruptions in war, as well as in the game itself, and considered good exercise and practice to hone the strategic skills of army commanders, for instance disengaging and retreating from a lost battle. The 5th section includes a discussion on the Queen and on whether women should take part in wars at all, with Actius supporting this idea for the better defence of cities, whilst providing numerous references to canonical and popular sources in Latin and Italian concerning the social status of young women, widows, etc. Among the interesting information on chess and its rules found in  De ludo  is the  rule of courtesy  that  a player should warn his opponent of the fact whenever he attacked his Queen with a piece other than the Queen  (Murray, p.389). 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The items in each section are then treated individually, usually with advice on taste, humoral effects and remedial qualities. Savonarola s treatise is sometimes noted for his advice on consuming artichokes as aphrodisiacs, equally useful for both men and women (p. 66). There are then sections on good air, exercise, maintaining  quiet,  good sleep, purgation and evacuation, the effects of the  animal passions  and  perturbation,  and, finally, eighteen observations for conserving health (all of which are linked to diet or digestion) along with nine doubtful (dubio) questions concerning habits for prolonging one s life. These include how many times you should eat per day, whether you should drink wine before you eat (and whether you should drink wine after eating fruit), and whether it is better to eat a good lunch or a good dinner; the answer is a good lunch. 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Godunov is cast as a  bloody tyrant  by Manley, who claims it is  more than conjectural  that Boris had Feodor poisoned, and who describes in bloody terms his murder of Dmitry. However, Manley is seemingly convinced by the story that Dmitry had been swapped with some unfortunate child and escaped assassination, though he acknowledges that the later Dmitrys are false. Manley prints numerous letters from the first  False Dmitry,  including to the English ambassador Sir Thomas Smith (d.1625). On occasions he has a neat turn of phrase, comparing, for example, the rapid growth of a mob to that of a snowball that  increases by rolling,  and describing the final pseudo-Demetrius as a  mushroom that had but peeped up.  He also has an eye for gory details, describing one man s fall of forty feet from a window as being  so great that he vomited blood from the crush of it. .  \u003cbr\u003e\n Roger Manley had travelled in Russia during the English civil wars, and he notes the similarities between the  intestine calamities  of his own country and those experienced in Russia earlier in the century, referring to  that most horrid of murthers perpetrated in our own land against the best of princes.  The preface recounts his impressions of Russia, including its  insufferably cold  winters, hot summers, abundance of honey, and its inhabitants, which he describes (excluding the nobility) as  barbarous, yet cunning, unfaithful, immeasurably debauched, luxurious, cruel; and yet so servile, that they glory in it.  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Though no such captain Zarain has been traced, Holloway affirms the authenticity of this account in his letter on the final leaf:  This foresaid relation is here of all held for a certain truth, this State having sent the selfe same news to the Pope and Viceroy of Naples, and hath also beene confirmed to bee true, by 100 severall Carryers   Nonetheless, Holloway s translation carries an obvious bias as he makes frequent jabs at the Zarain and the Ottomans in his marginal notes, never missing an opportunity to accuse them of blasphemy for their allegiance to the sultan. \u003cbr\u003e\n The work opens with an abridged history of the city, starting with its legendary foundress Semiramis and ending with the Persian Prince Abas, who in 1625 ended a thousand years of Ottoman rule. Zarain begins with a description of the vast Ottoman army, which included 4 bastions, 73,589 horses, 35,000 foot (some Janissaries) and lords and captains from Greece, Albania, and Morea. He describes how the army diverted the Euphrates, built a bridge over it, and arranged cannons to be fired at the walls of Babylon. Upon breaking through the fortification, 1000 boats of soldiers entered the city via the river. The Persians, armed only with scimitars, were unable to hold off the Ottomans with their muskets and retreated. Seeing their imminent defeat, the Persian leader, Obet Han, secretly surrendered himself to the Turks after they had promised his people unmolested travel back to Persia. The aftermath was perhaps bloodier than the battle itself: both sides remained highly suspicious of the truce and bloodshed resumed, culminating in the  mortall destruction  of the Persians and devastating casualties for the Turks. They stormed the castle, and having subdued the remaining 300 Persians within, officially reclaimed the city.  \u003cbr\u003e\n This copy belonged to Sefik Atabey, the formidable collector whose vast library comprised of books from and about the Ottoman Empire, the majority of which were published before the mid-1800s. A substantial number of books in his collection were purchased from the sale of Henry M. Blackmer II s library (Sotheby s, 1989). Leonora Navari s catalogue of Atabey s collection was published in 1999; she also catalogued Blackmer s Library. 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The work begins with a preliminary discourse on arquebuses and other gunpowder weapons, which Par é wrote at the express command of the king, who was concerned by the high number of soldiers and noblemen dying from wounds caused by bullets from guns; the first book covers surgical procedures designed to treat such wounds. Par é challenged earlier theories on gunshot wounds such as those of Giovanni da Vigo, which considered the wounds to be toxic and advocated the use of boiling oil. Par é directly refuted Vigo s erroneous assumptions, especially his suggestion that gunpowder was poisonous. He does so in a section on the catastrophic injuries caused by larger projectiles and cannonballs, demonstrating a morbid sense of humour; clearly it is these that are a danger to life and health, he says, not traces of poisonous gunpowder. Instead, Vigo suggested using odoriferous solutions of rosewater and other herbs, as well as herbal pomades, which should be placed in the injured patient s chamber to fortify the vital organs and restore strength to the whole body, for which he provides several recipes.  \u003cbr\u003e\n The theme of injuries caused by warfare continues (as the late lamented Arthur Lyons M.D. remarked,  in the C16 no-one elected for surgery ). The second book describes the removal of arrows, crossbow bolts, spears and lances, with a section on poisoned projectiles. Diagrams depict different kinds of projectiles and their removal. The rest of the books deal with bones and fractures; gangrene and sepsis, including amputation and the use of prosthetics like wooden legs and hands; diseases of the urinary system including tumours, kidney and bladder stones, the inability to urinate and diabetes. 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De la Croix translated and compiled his history from Arabic accounts mostly by Turkish authors and from European authors, both medieval and modern, whose travel accounts and works are said to prove and verify the facts in De la Croix s history. In several cases De la Croix provides the shelfmarks of manuscripts in the French Royal Library or gives the dates of the printed edition that he was using. A bibliography of De la Croix s sources, with biographies, concludes the volume. \u003cbr\u003e\n De La Croix was one of a group of young linguists, les Jeunes de Langues, who were sent by the Minister for Finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83) into the Ottoman Empire to learn its principal languages and act as interpreters for the French government. At age seventeen De la Croix travelled to Turkey, Persia and Syria, spending time in Aleppo and Isfahan in modern-day Iran. 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Cockle claims that the English edition was in fact  the original  (p. 65). In some copies of the 1607 Hague edition the date was changed in pen to 1608, which may be the true date of publication; another state exists with the date re-engraved to 1608 (Hollstein 3). The plates appear in two states, the earliest without numbering; in all editions except the presentation copies, the states of the plates change at random. In our copy, where almost all of the plates are in the second or third state, i.e. numbered and signed, the first plate appears in the second of three states, with number but no signature (supplied in ms.), while this copy also contains the first state of number 26 in the final series (number supplied in ms.), which in its second state was erroneously numbered 24.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll the early editions used the same engraved title-page, with blank portions to accommodate paper tabs engraved with the required coats of arms, dedications or privileges. On the title-page of this edition is a Latin dedicatory address from de Gheyn to the States General of the Netherlands, the arms at the top combining those of the Dutch provinces with the Habsburg eagle and the arms of stadtholder Maurice Prince of Orange (1567-1625), to whom the work itself is dedicated. It was Maurice s cousin, however, Johann VII von Nassau Siegen (1561-1623), who is credited with inspiring De Gheyn s project. Johann had condensed his extensive, first-hand military knowledge into a Kriegsbuch containing many innovative new ideas for the use of the Dutch States Army, chief among these being the introduction of standardised parade ground infantry drills, for which he envisaged producing an illustrated manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDe Gheyn s purpose was didactic, aiming to provide a clear visual model for conducting infantry drills. They show the various movements and postures to be adopted when firing the lighter arquebus or  caliver  and the heavier musket, which was used with a supporting stand, and finally the pike. These were the three core units of the basic infantry battalions developed by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, known as tercios, and used against the Dutch in Eighty Years  War or War of Dutch Independence. These formidable infantry units, quickly adopted by the Dutch and other nations, came to dominate warfare in the first half of the seventeenth century, especially in the Thirty Years War and English Civil War. De Gheyn s illustrations also became popular motifs in decorative art, appearing on Delft tiles and as panel paintings in the c.1630 Pages  Room at Clifton Hall in Nottinghamshire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DE GHEYN II, Jacob.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868724175183,"sku":"L4074","price":17500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"ville-antoine-de","title":"VILLE, Antoine de.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition, first published 1628, of Antoine de Ville s sumptuously illustrated book of military architecture, from the library of John Evelyn (1620-1706), English polymath, diarist, horticulturalist and bibliophile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDe Ville begins with a series of methods for geometrical calculation of various polygons, as well as descriptions of the components of modern fortification, before relating their application to regular and irregular forts, and those with less than six bastions at the corners, which included fortified ports, fortifications on bridges, etc. The second and third books contain De Ville s theories for attacking and defending fortifications and fortified towns, with historical examples, including mounting and repelling surprise attacks, fighting long sieges, conducting sorties, mining and countermining, destroying pontoon bridges, etc. He also gives advice on suppressing  seditions and revolts . De Ville s work was innovative in regard to the methodology that he set out for tracing the arrangement of fortifications, according to fixed figures for the base side of a polygon, at either 150 or 180 paces. His genuinely original contribution, however, related to his calculations for the bastions at the corners. Essentially, he developed the Italian Renaissance design of fortifications into a science. The plates depict birds-eye designs for forts as well as perspectival views of forts within imaginary landscapes, often combined with geometrical diagrams, which are in other cases contained within architectural borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Evelyn, famous diarist, horticulturist and bibliophile, left Oxford in 1637 without taking a degree and travelled on the Continent, including time spent in Paris, which he eventually left in 1647. He therefore purchased this book not long before his return to England, where he devoted his time to designing gardens at his house of Sayes Court, Deptford, and writing several books on horticulture. He was a founding member of the Royal Society and also wrote on sculpture, medals, theology, and pollution.  Evelyn was an active bibliophile throughout his life, who devoted much interest to his library. His 1687 manuscript catalogue   lists c. 4000 volumes, and over 800 pamphlets.   His years in Paris   helped to form his tastes for handsome books and bindings   made in both Paris and London, in both calf and goatskin to a high quality; he spent more on bindings than the average book purchaser of the time  (BOO). Evelyn proposed a system of shelfmark classification employing 24 letter shelfmarks and 95 word shelfmarks. In reality, he used all 26 letters of the alphabet but only 23 words. These bore no relation to subject matter, as he intended, but may have represented a purely practical classification by size: Hercules and Vulcanus were exclusively used to denote folio books (J. McL. Emmerson,  Dan Fleming and John Evelyn  in Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 27.1-2, p. 59). Many of Evelyn s books were sold during his lifetime: he instructed his son to   dispose of the duplicates, and to purge out many frivolous French books and other trash, to exchange them for such books as we want, and are of more use   (ibid.). This French book evidently survived, passing to Evelyn s descendants, and was sold at Christie s in 1977, lot number 1524.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VILLE, Antoine de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868724240719,"sku":"L4897","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_6.17.57_PM.png?v=1781803175","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/collections\/military-warfare.oembed","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}