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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. folio. [iv], 18, 40. 19 engraved plates (17 double-page) all with fine contemporary outlining and colouring, some signed by Hondius. "A reissue, with cancel quire pi, of the edition with imprint: Printed at Delf, by Ian Pieters VValpote". ESTC. Roman letter, some Italic. Woodcut ornament on the t-p, woodcut initials and headpieces, typographical ornaments, engraved armorial bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, (1872-1943), various early shelf marks of pastedown and fly. . Light age yellowing, very minor spotting, t-p fractionally thumbed in lower corner, one plate with small closed tear in lower blank margin. A fine copy, crisp and clean with good margins, the plates with good impression in contemporary hand colouring, in contemporary vellum over thin boards, remains of label, small stain on lower cover. Extremely rare first edition of this military work, printed in Holland, one of two variants; this with the cancel title in English. This copy has the plates in fine contemporary hand colouring. Both editions are extremely rare. This variant is recorded in ESTC in three copies only, two at the Huntington Library and one at Harvard. The variant with Dutch title page in recorded a unique copy at the Huntington. No copy of either in UK libraries. The work was reprinted in 1642 in England. "Hexham's long military career began when he was fifteen or sixteen. He was born in the Netherlands to English parents in circa 1585 and first served with Vere at Ostend and remained with him until his departure for England in 1604. His three instruction manuals were a tour de force of English military literature and a veritable catalogue of the Dutch contributions to the transformation of warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. . Hexham was one of the most prolific soldier-authors of the early Stuart period and his contributions to English military literature are quite significant. His ties to Horace Vere and to many of the soldiers in the Vere circle is one more instance of the strong conections between Englands military writers and the countries leading military figures." David R. Lawrence 'The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England. "A number of British writers were influenced by this 'Dutch-drill'. Most notably John Bingham in his work on The Tactiks of Aelian (1616), John Cruso's Military Instructions for the Cavallrie (1632) and The Art of War, or Militarie Discourses (1639) and Henry Hexham's Principles of the Art Militarie Hexham was Quartermaster to Colonel George Goring in the Dutch Wars (he became a royalist general in the civil war) and his work is a recognition of Maurice's achievements. It outlines, again in great detail, the structure of an army and roles of the officers and key non-commissioned officers; provides extremely detailed accounts of musket and pike drills with excellent diagrams; includes details and rates of pay as well as the ransoms to be paid for officers and finally a section on military law and the punishments. The second section concentrates on the various battles fought during the Thirty Years' War, but provides little explanation of how those formations were fought. A final section covers the artillery and engineers. While Hexham does not consider combined operations per se, he includes a pivotal section on the inclusion of cavalry squadrons to support the first line infantry in which he describes placing 'Battallions of horse, interlaced, and placed betwixt the intervals, and distances of the Foote, as the ground necessity may require. For, if an Enemies Horse should be ranged betweene his Battallions of foote, it is needed then, that the other side should observe the same form likewise, and have horse to encounter horse, lest they should breake in upon the foote divisions'. Nicolas Lipscombe, 'Combined Arms Tactics in the English Civil War'. ESTC S1197323; STC 13264.4. Not in Cockle (1642 edn. only). …

Very rare first and only edition in Dutch of an eyewitness account of the siege and capture of Breda by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584-1647), in 1637. Breda had been captured by the Spanish army under Ambrogio Spinola (1569-1630) in 1625 and remained in Spanish hands until Frederick Henry recaptured it. The present account describes the siege from 21 July until the surrender of the city on 11 October 1637 and includes the rare folding plan of Breda and its surroundings, which is only found in some copies.The plan shows the city and the extensive positions and fortifications of the besieging army during a later stage of the siege. A letterpress text attached to the lower margin of the engraving gives a brief history of Breda, an account of the siege and an explanation of the letters and numbers used on the plan.With the stamp of Prosper Cuypers van Velthoven (1803-1882) on the title page, next to a second, faded stamp. Minor worming in the boards. The leaves are lightly browned, the edges of the map are slightly frayed, a small marginal tear in the final two leaves has been reinforced, a (water) stain in the lower margin throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Bodel Nijenhuis 534; Knuttel 4567; STCN 851431836 (4 copies); USTC 1031499 (5 copies). Early 19th-century gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco with the author, title and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, a paper shelf mark label at the head of the spine, marbled paper sides. With a large folding map of the city of Breda and surroundings during the siege in 1637, with an explanatory text pasted to the bottom margin. Interleaved copy. Pages: [8], 55, [1 blank], "14" [= 20] pp.…

First Edition. 4to, pp.[8], 104; small portion of blank margin of A4 torn away, else a good copy in later calf, rebacked in brown morocco; ownership signature to title-page of William Woollcombe of Corpus Christi College Oxford (fellow 18121819), dated 1818.First edition, written in reply to a rare pamphlet with a near-identical title by Richard Verstegan [or Rowlands], an intelligence agent in the Netherlands for the English Jesuits. Verstegan's original Toung-Combat comprised a dialogue between the pro-Catholic Red Scarf and the Protestant Tawny Scarf, the latter a patsy for Red Scarf's arguments. Here Hexham reprints Red Scarf's portion of the conversation in its entirety, but rewrites Tawny-Scarf's rejoinders at length to expose the 'many falshoods wrapt up in those waste-papers' it is as a result an unusual sort of palimpsest, enabled by the dialogic structure of the original work. As a young man the soldier and author Henry Hexham had served under SirFrancis Vere among the English forces sent to assist the Dutch against Spanish occupation, remaining there after Vere's return to England in 1606. He published there a number of translations of Protestant works (from Dutch to English and vice versa). 'Hexhamwas still in the Netherlands some years later when his religious motivation in fighting for the Dutch was further confirmed by hisA tongue combat lately happening between two English souldiers (1623), which he was prompted to write after reading a pamphlet disparaging the policies ofElizabethI and JamesI' (ODNB). ESTC S117034; STC 13264.8. Language: English.…