Spanish armada (5 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An attractive original antique hand coloured engraving . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed . Very good condition and somewhat uncommon . Shows a fine seascape - battle scene - the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Wale (illustrator).…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraving. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excelleny condition. Circa 1860. Hand colouring not contemporary - but delicately and expertly executed. A stirring battle scene - the Battle of the Armada.

Zustand: leido. Los naufragos de la Armada invencible (Spanish Edition) Gonzaez-Arnao Conde-Luque, Mariano. Publicado por Direccio de Relaciones Exteriores, Ente Publico RTVE, Servicio de Publicaciones, Madrid, 1988 firma.

Boards. Zustand: Good. None. Translated from the original Spanish by Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Jr. Spanish Armada Tracts No.1. Printed at New York. Pale blue boards with gilt depiction of ship on front and back covers. 109 pages. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 1911 Christmas presentation inscription on front pastedown and signature of recipient on front endpaper. Small loss to head of spine. Spotting to covers and untrimmed edges are dust-marked. Nevertheless, SCARCE.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Folio. [4]f including half title, engraved title within allegorical border, full-page arms on verso, full-page engraved portrait of Prince Maurice +256p. Text in 2 columns. 42 engraved plates (41 double-page, 1 folding). Contemporary vellum;morocco label on spine. First edition in German of this extensively illustrated survey of Dutch military exploits on land and sea under the leadership of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567-1625) during the Dutch war of independence from Spain. (The Dutch original was published in 1610). The events here described and illustrated include the Dutch share in the destruction of the Spanish armada in 1588 (pp46-67), the expedition sent to Nova Zembla and to the East Indies in 1594-5, the Anglo-Dutch naval expedition to Cadiz under Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Prince Maurice in 1596, the Dutch expedition against Spain and the Canary Islands under Admiral Pierre vander Does in 1599, the Dutch blockade of the Flemish coast by a gigantic fleet of 2800 vessels in July 1600 against the Spaniards, a sea fight between the Dutch and Portuguese off Bantam in 1601, and an account of the naval battle off Gibraltar between the Dutch and Spaniards in 1607. The finely engraved plates, executed in the best tradition of Dutch art of the period, depict battles, sieges, naval engagements, military plans and maps. The frontispiece bears the initials 'L. G.', a campaign map of 1602 is signed Floris Balthasar, the other plates are unidentified. Orlers (1570-1646), was a printer and local historian at Leiden, who later became mayor of the city. The dedication is to Frederick V, Prince Palatine, son in law of Charles I of England and champion of German Protestants who later accepted the crown of Bohemia and lost his throne as 'winter king'. Right blank margin of title shaved, otherwise a very good copy with contemporary manuscript ownership entry by Eberhard Klenck, dated 1613, in blank tailend title margin; a slightly later entry inside front cover by Leopold Kleuken, dated 3 February 1657. Holzmann Bohatta 6058a; Cockle, no 83 (note to the English edition of 1620 : 'This work is of very great interest. The English volunteers in the service of the States General play no inconsiderable part in the history'.…