Military History

DANCKAERT, Jan. Beschryvinge van Moscovien ofte Ruslant: gestelt in twee deelen.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1615. Small 4to (17.5 x 13.5 cm). With the title in a border built up from 4 woodcuts, 2 woodcut initials and a wood-cut head- and tailpiece. 19th-century half sheepskin. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DEFOURNY, Pierre Josephus?]. Korte schets van het voor gevallene gedurende het bombardement van het citadel van Antwerpen.
Saint Omer, 24 April 1833. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch, written in ink on laid paper with no watermark. 10 pp. Full description

[DEIDIER, L'abbé]. Le parfait ingenieur François, ou la fortification offensive et défensive, contenant la construction, l'attaque & la défense des places régulieres & irrégulieres, selon les méthodes des plus habiles auteurs de l'Europe, qui ont écrit sur cette science. On y trouvera aussi des manieres de fortifier les places irrégulieres, plus facilement & beaucoup mieux, qu'on n'a fait jusqu'ici.
Amsterdam, la Compagnie des Libraires, 1734. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by Le Pautre after Santer, the title page is printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, and 42 engraved plates with numerous illustrations on 41 folding engraved leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 346, [2] p. Full description

DEJEAN, Jean-François-Aimé. Plan de Gertruidenberg et de l'attaque de cette place par les Français. N. L'attaque a été commencée le 22 nivose an 3me. Rép. (11 janvier 1795) et la garnison s'est rendue prisonnière de guerre le 29 nivose (18 janvier 95 vieux stile).
[Netherlands, ca. 1800]. Manuscript fortification plan (49 x 61.6 cm) on paper in ink and green and red watercolour. With large frame in the bottom left with keys to important locations, including the locations of the troops during the attack. Signed "Vu Dejean". Full description

DILICH, Wilhelm. Peribologia oder Bericht ... von Vestungs Gebewen, vieler Örter vermehrett wie auch mit gebürenden Gründt und Auffrissen versehen ...
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (colophon: printed by Anton Humm), 1640. 2 parts plus plates in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page and 2 engraved part-titles, each part with 2 additional engraved divisional titles dividing it into two "books", 234 unnumbered engraved plates by the author's son, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1 large folding, plate size 46.5 x 60.5 cm; and as bound in the present copy 198 double-page and 35 single-page). Vellum (ca. 1695/1700?). 163, [8], [1 blank] pp. (including 7 engraved titles) plus plates and 3 engraved titles. Full description

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

DISDÉRI, André. [Collection of 12 photographs of Paris and surroundings just after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)].
[Paris], André Disdéri, 1871. Seven albumen prints by Disdéri (measuring 10/20 x 29 cm), mounted on blue stiff paper leaves, with a caption in pencil in the lower left corner; three albumen prints, each mounted on a white stiff paper leaf, including one by A. Serrault with printed text underneath; and two small portraits of carte de visite format (89 x 54 mm), probably by Disdéri, mounted together on one stiff paper leaf. Full description

DÖGEN, Matthias. L'architecture militaire moderne, ou fortification.
Including: ... la partie qui concerne l'attaque & la deffance.
Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. Folio. With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, 68 (of 70) double-page engraved plates: 28 (of 29) instructional plates A-Ff , showing plans, elevations, sections and equipment, and 40 (of 41) unnumbered fortification plans of numerous cities. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges. [8], 547[=543], [1 blank], [20] pp. Full description

DÖGEN, Matthias. Heutiges tages übliche Kriges Bau-kunst...
Including: DÖGEN, Matthias. Streit-bau-Kunst, ...
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. Folio in 4s (31 x 21 cm). With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, a letterpress divisional title-page for part 2, 29 double-page engraved plates, 40 double-page engraved plates, 5 woodcut decorated gothic initials. With 3 unsigned quires with letterpress tables of data made for this edition, but lacking in many copies. Set in fraktur types with incidental roman. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges, manuscript spine title, remains of 1 of 4 green cloth ties. [14], [2 blank], 56, [8], 57-96, [4], 97-196, [8], 197-475, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk ...
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1674.
With:
(2) [DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het tweede deel, van't Ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk.
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1676.
(3) V. T. V. [= Geeraert BRANDT DE JONGE]. Tweejaerige Geschiedenissen, voorgevallen in de Jaeren 1674 en 1675 ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolgangh, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1678. 3 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Vol. 1 with an engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved folding plates, 1 folding map, 1 full-page coat of arms, and 15 full-page portraits; vol. 2 with an engraved frontispiece, 13 folding etchings, and 7 full-page engraved plates; vol. 3 with an engraved frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved portraits. Slightly later gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [6], 528, [20]; [6], 822, [10]; [6], 816, [16] pp. Full description