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The Dutch Republic bans the export of military goods to territories under Spanish control

[AERSSEN, Cornelis van]. Placcaet vande Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, inhoudende scherp verbodt van opte steden, havenen, ende plaetsen, wesende onder t'gebiedt vanden Coninck van Spaingien ... geen toevoer uyte Vereenichde Nederlande[n] te doen van salpeter, buspoeder, geschut ... opte verbeurte vande selve ende andere groote peynen en straffen.
The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., "1591" [= 1591/94?]. With 1 woodcut decorated initial, a typographic interlaced gothic initial and a decoration built up from arabesque cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 650

Armory, Military Science & Technology Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Spain

A humanist account of the Gothic War

BRUNI (ARETINO), Leonardo and Lodovico PETRONI (translator). Libro de la guerra de Ghotti ... in lingua Latine [e] fatto volgare da Lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese nuovamente stampato.
(Colophon: Venice, Nicolo d'Aristotele detto Zoppino de Ferrara), 1528. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Slightly later limp vellum. 87, [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 950

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Philosophy & Humanism

Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

A chronological history of the Portuguese Empire, including its overseas settlements

CONESTAGGIO, Girolamo. Dell unione del regno di Portogallo alla corona di Castiglia. Istoria.
Genoa, Girolamo Bartoli, 1589. 4to. With 12 decorated woodcut initials, 12 woodcut headpieces, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Slightly later Italian/Iberian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the head edge of the leaves and at the head of the spine, a paper label ("1350") at the foot of the spine, green closing ties. [1], [1 blank], [22], 7, [1 blank], 412 pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Brazil China Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Jesuits Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Portugal South America

One of the earliest accounts of the Dutch Revolt

DINOTH, Richard. De bello civili Belgico libri VI.
Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1586. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at the end of the work, 7 decorated woodcut initials, 5 tailpieces and 1 headpiece made up of typographical ornaments. (Near-) contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [8], 456, [8] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

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

Francis Drake’s failed attempt to depose the King of Spain and Portugal

DRAKE, Francis (subject). Brevis & fida narratio, et continuatio rerum omnium a Drako et Norreysio (post ex Occidentalibus Insulis, reditum) in sua expeditione Portugallensi singulis diebus gestarum.
Frankfurt am Main, Paul Brachfeldt, 1590. 4to. With the woodcut arms on the title-page, the upper related to that of Queen Elizabeth of England and the lower that of King Philip I of Portugal (Philip II of Spain), each supported by putti, a full-page woodcut standing soldier with sword and spear, perhaps intended as Francis Drake. Gold-tooled green morocco (2nd half of 19th century). [2], 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 15,000

History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Portugal UK - United Kingdom

Naval convoys for merchant ships; import and export taxes on 430 goods, under the short-lived British governorship of the Netherlands

DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Placcaet op tstuck vande convoyen (mitsgaders licenten, ...) ghedaen ... by zyne Excellentie, tot Utrecht den laetsten Aprilis, anno. M. D. LXXXVI.
Utrecht, widow of Coenraet Henricksz, 1586.
With: (2) DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. [Incipit:] ¶ Robert, Grave van Leycester ..., allen ... die deze ... sullen sien oft hooren lesen saluyt. Alsoo ...: so ist dat wy ... goet ... geacht hebben, alle de ... lysten vanden goedere[n] gaende naer ... vreemde lande[n], ..., te redigeren en[de] dresseren in ee[n] sijste[! = lijste], ....
(Colophon: Utrecht, printed by Hendrick van Borculo, [1586]). 2 works sewn together. 4to. Disbound. [8]; [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands

First Dutch edition of an eyewitness account of the 1573 siege of Alkmaar

[FOREEST, Nanning van]. Een cort verhael van de strenghe belegheringhe ende aftreck der Spangiaerden van de Stadt Alcmaer gheleghen in Hollandt. Die welcke de Spaengiaerts nae dat syse int Jaer MDLXXIII seven weecken beleghert hadden niet sonder haer groote schade ende schande hebben moeten nalaten, uyt het Latyn int Duytsch overgeset.
Delft, Aelbert Hendrickz., "1573" [1580 or soon after?]. Small 4to. With a woodcut illustration of a king on the title page, presumably the biblical king David with his shield bearing his coat-of-arms showing a harp (practically identical to the coat-of-arms of Ireland), and 1 woodcut decorated initial (roman capital). Set in textura types except for the italic running heads. 19th-century block-printed decorated wrappers (in blue). 29, [3] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

On the conquest of Africa and the Ottoman corsair Dragut

FUENTES, Diego de. Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.
With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco "71" [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 2,750

Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Rare first edition of a magnificent series of armed riders in action, commissioned by Prince Maurice of Orange

GHEYN, Jacob II de. [The riding school or exercise of cavalry].
[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [22 engraved plates]. Full description

€ 38,000

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