drill manual (3 Ergebnisse)

On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 28.5 x 24 cm. On aged, somewhat grubby paper, with 6 cm closed tear repaired with tape on reverse. Full-length diagrammatic depiction of a British army officer in uniform of the Napoleonic period (black boots with spurs, tight white breeches, green jacket with yellow trim and black hat with red plume), holding his sword horizontally in front of his face. A set of thirteen numbered angles are projected from the tip of the blade, some bracketed 'all these are strait in Front'. Others are described as 'flat'. Captioned at head 'Drill Motions.' The numbering and handwriting would appear to be in a hand contemporary with the plate, but the item is either a forgery, or it has been touched up in recent decades, as the border, plume and some highlighting would appear to be in red felt-tip pen. Docketed at the foot, in a twentieth-century hand, 'DRILL MOTIONS AT BUNHILL FIELDS.' The Honourable Artillery Company (the oldest regiment in the British Army) has its old parade ground abutting Bunhill Fields near the City of London.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pellicciari, Bartolomeo. Parte prima delle rassegne, et modo per essercitare fanteria, con dichiarationi espedite, & figure rapresentanti li siti, il numero della soldatesca, & diversi atti, che giornalmente occorrono in guerra. Modena, Giuliano Cassiano, 1613.Small 4to. [8] + 60 (misnumbered 72)p. fullpage woodcut portrait of author bound after title, 12 tables (some folding), 9 woodcut folding plates of battle scenes. Medici arms on title; ornamental woodcut initials. Contemporary boards, rebacked. First edition of this Modenese infantry manual presented as twenty model exercises. 12 tables (included in the collation) show theoretical military formations and positions. The nine bird s eye combat scenes depicted in the fine folding plates give details of gun emplacements and charging columns of pikemen and musketeers in fortified towns, villages, and along rivers. The author, shown in military dress in the fine woodcut portrait, was a colonel in the service of Cosmo II, Grand duke of Tuscany, to whom this work is dedicated. He had gained his experience whilst fighting in Flanders and France under Alessandro Farnese (1545-92), the outstanding commander of Philip II of Spain. French and German translations appeared in 1616. Although the title suggests that this is the first part of the work, no more was published. A small repair in blank margin of title, otherwise a fresh copy from the Baron Landau collection with bookplate and small unobtrusive stamp in tailend corner of title. Cockle 618; Jähns 1035.

First edition, 8vo (160 x 95 mm), [2], 235, [1]pp., early ink ownership signature to head of title page, cont. calf beginning detached from lower board, head of spine slightly chipped. First edition of this drill manual which ran to four editions up to 1701. Wing, E3863.