The Cottesloe Military Library
The Cottesloe Military Library
Auction Closed
November 19, 05:30 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
GHEYN, JACOB DE
Maniement d'armes. (Zutphen: Andre Janssen, [?1619])
3 parts in one volume, 4to (204 x 160mm.), engraved title, text in French, Dutch, German and English, woodcuts in the text, old vellum, title in manuscript to spine, scattered staining, upper hinge broken, vellum soiled, lacking ties
"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.
LITERATURE:
STCN 268632251
PROVENANCE:
Henry Huth (1815-1878), by descent to his son Alfred H. Huth (1850-1910); his sale in these rooms, Second Portion, 13 June 1912, lot 2299
Lord Cottesloe viewed a copy of this work at William Robinson's on 20 January 1940.