Edwards's military catalogue : Books, pamphlets, plates, &c. on military history and biography, narratives of expeditions and campaigns, land battles & sea fights, sieges & blockades in all ages and countries, the art of war, army and navy administration, regimental records, costumes, badges, medals, &c / Offered at the prices affixed by Francis Edwards. London.

  • Francis Edwards (Firm)
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[1907-1908]
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Credit: Edwards's military catalogue : Books, pamphlets, plates, &c. on military history and biography, narratives of expeditions and campaigns, land battles & sea fights, sieges & blockades in all ages and countries, the art of war, army and navy administration, regimental records, costumes, badges, medals, &c / Offered at the prices affixed by Francis Edwards. London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 YALTUR. En tibi Lector | ROBERTVM VALTURIVM, AD | Illvstrem Heroa Sigismvn- | dum Pandulphum Malatestam Ariminensium regem, de | RE MILITARI Libris XII. multo ema- | culatius ac picturis, quse plurimse in eo snnt, | elegantioribus expressum, qu'am cum Ve- | ronse inter initis artis chalcogra- j phicse Anno M.ccclxxxiii. | invulgaretur | ...Parishs, Apud Chrlstianum Wechelum, sub insigni scuti Basiiiensis M.D.XXXII. —Mense Iulio. Title and prefatory matter, 6 1., pp. 1-384, folio, calf. 1532 £1 10s This edition has no illustrations. General Melvill’s copy. “ Yaltur is the earliest authority on mediaeval machines of war. The work was for those times a prodigy of information (Promis), and deservedly held in high estimation. The materials are derived from the ancient military writers with whose works Yaltur was well acquainted. He was a native of Rimini, and was living from 1413 to 1483.”—Cockle, p. 134. 4 MACHIAYELLI. The Arte of Warre, Written first in Italian by Nicholas Machiavell, and set forthe in Englishe by Peter Whitehorne 1560; The Florentine Historic, translated by T. B. [i.e.t Thomas Bedingfield], 1595; and The Prince, translated by Edward Dacres, 1640, with an Introduction by Henry Oust, M.P., 2 vols. royal 8vo, buckram. 1905 £1 10s 6 [NANNINI.] ORATIONI | Militari. | Raccolte per M. Remigio | Fiorentino, da Tutti Gli Historici | Greci e Latini, Antichi e Moderni. | Con gli Argomenti, che Dichiarano | P Occasioni, per le quali elle furono fatte | seconda editione | ... | ... | con l’Aggiunta di Molti historici, et orationi. (1040 pp.) royal 8vo, calf. Venice, 1560 <£1 A summary of the writings of the Ancients and Moderns on the art of war, with dissuasions and persuasions thereto, extracted from the writings of Thucydides, Herodotus, from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Polybius, Appian, Tacitus, Herodian, Josephus, Plutarch, Livy, Sallust, Caesar, Quintus Curtius, Hegesippus, Ammianus, Procopius, Saxo-Grammaticus, L. Aretino, Poggio, Machiavelli, Giustiniano, Galleazzo, Bembo, Jovio, G. Faletti, Ascanio Centorio, and others. 7 MAGGI & CASTRIOTTO. Della | FORTIFICATIONE | della Citta, | di M. Girolamo Maggi, e del | Capitan Iacomo Castriotto, | Ingegniero de Christianiss. Re di Francia, | Libri III illustrated throughout with woodcut designs of fortresses, batteries, bastions, curtains, ditches, drawbridges, ordnance, cavalry, lance knights, regiments of foot, men at arms, &c. Folio, 146 leaves, vellum. Venice, 1584 £2 8 CATANEO. Most | BRIEFE TABLES | to know redily how ma- | nie ranches of footmen armed | with Corslettes, as vnarmed, go | to the making of a iust battaile, | from an hundred vnto twen- | tie thousand. | next a very easie, and ap- | proued way to arme a battaile, with Harkabu- | zers, and winges of horsemen according | to the vse at these daies. | ...newlie increased...by the Aucthour himselfe, | Girolano Catameo No varese.* Tourned out of Italian into English by H. G. ...London, by Thomas East: for Iohn Wight. | 1588. Small 4to, 28 leaves, black-letter, calf (by Cross) £1 6s * Girolamo Cataweo, architect and engineer, of Novara.