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Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, Mousquetz et piques, Amsterdam, Ro
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Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, Mousquetz et piques, Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, 1608, engraved allegorical title, text in English, French and German in three parts, 117 full-page eng. plts. in all, some embrowning throughout, later vellum (probably 18th century), some marks and soiling, ties partly defective, folio. Lipperheide Qb19. The first French edition of De Gheyn’s famous drill manual, known in English as the Exercises of Arms. The work is based on the drill developed at the end of the 16th century by Count Johann II of Nassau-Siegen (1551-1623) and introduced in the Dutch Army by his cousin Maurits, Prince of Orange (1567-1625). (1)
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Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, Mousquetz et piques, Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, 1608, engraved allegorical title, text in English, French and German in three parts, 117 full-page eng. plts. in all, some embrowning throughout, later vellum (probably 18th century), some marks and soiling, ties partly defective, folio. Lipperheide Qb19. The first French edition of De Gheyn’s famous drill manual, known in English as the Exercises of Arms. The work is based on the drill developed at the end of the 16th century by Count Johann II of Nassau-Siegen (1551-1623) and introduced in the Dutch Army by his cousin Maurits, Prince of Orange (1567-1625). (1)
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