Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, et picques ... Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten ende spiessen ... The Exercise of Armes for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange, Counte of Nassau etc. Gouvernour and Capitaine Generall over the United Provinces, Zutphen: Andre Janssen, [1620], title in French, Dutch, English and German within woodcut border, parallel text in the same languages, preface dated 20 August 1619, 117 full-page woodcuts of musket and pike drills, occasional slight soiling, all edges gilt, modern brown morocco by Bernard Middleton, small 4to (Qty: 1) Cockle p. 65; ESTC S92680; STC 11812.5. 'A compact edition, in three parts of [Jacob de Gheyn's] Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen' (ESTC). The work has a complex publishing history, with various Dutch, German, English, French and Danish editions appearing in Amsterdam and The Hague from 1607. This edition is extremely rare: ESTC traces three copies only (British Library, Ministry of Defence, and Oxford).
Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, et picques ... Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten ende spiessen ... The Exercise of Armes for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange, Counte of Nassau etc. Gouvernour and Capitaine Generall over the United Provinces, Zutphen: Andre Janssen, [1620], title in French, Dutch, English and German within woodcut border, parallel text in the same languages, preface dated 20 August 1619, 117 full-page woodcuts of musket and pike drills, occasional slight soiling, all edges gilt, modern brown morocco by Bernard Middleton, small 4to (Qty: 1) Cockle p. 65; ESTC S92680; STC 11812.5. 'A compact edition, in three parts of [Jacob de Gheyn's] Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen' (ESTC). The work has a complex publishing history, with various Dutch, German, English, French and Danish editions appearing in Amsterdam and The Hague from 1607. This edition is extremely rare: ESTC traces three copies only (British Library, Ministry of Defence, and Oxford).
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