Wallhausen, L'art militaire pour l'infanterie, Leeuwarden, 1630, contemporary vellum gilt

WALLHAUSEN, JOHANN JACOBI VON

L'art militaire, pour l'infanterie. Leeuwarden: Claude Fontaine, 1630

folio (346 x 215mm.), engraved title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 35 engraved plates (25 double-page), near-contemporary vellum gilt, spine gilt in compartments, marbled edges, boards slightly warped

The plates depict exercises with musket and pike as well as camp layouts and the ordering of troops.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 621; USTC 4028044

PROVENANCE:

Henry Edward Bunbury, armorial bookplate