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The Cottesloe Military Library
29 October - 19 November 2019 • London

1. Abridgement of the English military discipline, 4 editions, 1676, 1684, 1685, 1686

2. Acquaviva, De venatione et de aucupio, Naples, 1519, old red goatskin

3. Adriani, De militiae laudibus oratio, Basel, 1518, later boards

4. Aegidius (Columna) Romanus, De regimine principum, Rome, 1482, later wooden boards

5. Aelianus Tacticus, translated by Bingham, London, 1616-1631, 2 volumes, calf
![Aelianus and Polybius, La milice des grecs et romains, Paris, [1615], contemporary vellum](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6b7aa51/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1368+0+0/resize/150x103!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F08%2Fe6%2F52533b4e4110a910899567f7638a%2Fl19418-6mwxq-1.jpg)
6. Aelianus and Polybius, La milice des grecs et romains, Paris, [1615], contemporary vellum

7. Alberghetti, Compendio della fortificatione, Venice, 1694, modern patterned paper boards
![Alghisi | Delle fortificationi, [Venice], 1570, green vellum](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/597d910/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1443+0+0/resize/150x108!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F71%2F3c%2Fe3252adf4f2fb5c3094f0f4b5d50%2Fl19418-6mx58-1.jpg)
8. Alghisi | Delle fortificationi, [Venice], 1570, green vellum

9. Alimari, Instruttioni militari, Nuremberg, 1692, calf-backed red boards

10. Anderson, The genuine use and effects of the gunne, 1674, bound with 2 others by the same author, contemporary calf

11. Appian of Alexandria, An auncient historie of the Romanes warres, London, 1578, later red morocco

12. Appier and Thybourel, Recueil de plusieurs machines militaires, Pont-à-Mousson, 1620, vellum

13. Appier, La Pyrotechnie, Pont-à-Mousson, 1630, reversed calf

14. Archery; Wood, Bowman's glory, 1691, contemporary morocco gilt; Ascham, Toxophilus, 1788; English archer, c.1780

15. Archery, volume containing various printed and manuscript items, early 19th century

16. Army lists and other works, 5 volumes, 1684-1742, including a Prospect of Hounslow Heath

17. Artillery, Rivault, Les elemens de l'artillerie, 1608; La Fontaine, Devoirs des officiers de l'artillerie, 1675, 2 vols

18. Artillery, 9 French 18th century vol., by Belidor, Le Blond, Diderot, Papacino d'Antoni, Scheel, and others

19. Artillery, French, 18 volumes, 18th and 19th century

20. Artillery and fireworks, 2 works, by Rivault and Malthus, contemporary vellum

21. Artillery, a collection of 6 works in Italian, by Capobianco, Collado, Moretti and others, seventeenth century

22. Artillery, Seventeenth-century illustrated Italian manuscript about geometry and artillery, carta rustica

23. Artillery, Seventeenth-century Italian illustrated manuscript treatise about artillery and cannons, c1673

24. Artillery, works in Italian, by Alberghetti, Bossi, Gentilini, Papacino d'Antoni, Sardi, Zonta, 6 volumes

25. Ascham, Toxophilus, London, 1571, modern red morocco

26. Ascham, Toxophilus, London, 1589, modern vellum

27. Babington, Pyrotechnia, London, 1635, contemporary calf

28. Barret, The Theorike and practike of moderne warres, London, 1598, contemporary calf

29. Barry, A Discourse of Military Discipline, Brussels, 1634, later half calf

30. Basta, Il mastro di campo generale, Venice, 1606, contemporary calf with arms of De Thou

31. Basta, Le Gouvernement de la cavallerie legiere, Hanau, 1614, half red morocco

32. Basta, Mastro di campo generale, Frankfurt, 1617, modern vellum

33. Baudouin, Exercice de l'infanterie françoise, Paris, 1755, mottled calf gilt

34. Belluzzi, Nuova inventione di fabricar fortezze, Venice, 1598, vellum, Philip of Hesse's copy

35. Bentivoglio, History of the Warrs of Flanders, 1654, translated by Monmouth, with Speed's map

36. Bernard, Remarks on modern fortification, trans. Horneck, 1738, Christie Miller copy in contemporary red morocco

37. Bibliography, four works by Cockle, Ayala, Almirante and Guarnieri

38. Binning, A light to the art of gunnery, 2 copies, 1676 and 1689

39. Biringucci, Pirotechnia, Venice, 1550, later vellum-backed carta rustica

40. Blackwell, A compendium of military discipline, 1726, plates by Hogarth, red morocco by Zaehnsdorf

41. Blagrave, Baculum familliare, catholicon sive generale, London, 1590, modern wrappers

42. Blandy, The castle, or picture of pollicy, London, 1581, modern red morocco

43. Blome, The Gentleman's Recreations, 1710-1709, contemporary calf

44. Boillot, Modelles artifices de feu, Chaumont, 1598, vellum

45. Boillot, Artifices de feu, Strassburg, 1603, later half calf

46. Bourdin, Seventeenth-century French illustrated manuscript of two works on military architecture and fortifications

47. Boxel, Vertoogh van de Kryghs-Oeffeninge, The Hague, 1673, vellum

48. Boyer, Draughts of... fortified towns of Europe, London, 1701, contemporary sheep