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Lot 1073: SCHEFFER, Joannes De Militia Navali veterum libri quatuor ad Historiam Graecam Latinamque utiles

Est: €180 EUR - €300 EURSold:
Auctions Van de WieleBrugge, BelgiumOctober 10, 2015

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Description

4°, [8] + 348 pp. with engrav. title-p. by J.V. Meurs, 39 woodcuts, 4 plates, printer's device on title-p. First and only edition of this account on warships by Johannes Scheffer (1621-1679), born in Strasbourg and professor at the university of Uppsala. Interesting account on warships of antiquity. The woodcuts depicting ships, apparatus and equipment, but also coins and medallions. Graesse, VI, 297. Text in Latin with Greeks quotes, index in Latin and Greek. Followed by: WALLHAUSEN, Jean-Jacques de, Art de chevalerie, Francfort, 1616, [8] + 107 + [1] pp., engrav. title-p., printer's device on verso of last folio. The pp. 45 to 48 are in bounded the wrong order, the 13 engraved plates are lacking. First French edition, published simultaneously with the first German edition by the same publisher, with the same rich title-border, but (as published) without the engraved coat of arms present in the German edition. This is an illustrated manual of combat on horseback. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 638f. Foxing in margins, some light waterstains in margins. 17th c. binding: full calf, boards with blind-tooling and rollstamps, ribbed spine with gold-tooling. Binding rubbed, some leather missing at the bottom of the spine, first hinge loose

Notes

Reunion of two works in first editions on how to conduct war at sea and on land. The first book describes how the ancient Greeks and Romans conducted war at sea. Provenance: Collegy Societ. Jesu Bruxelles M.B 1664
Uppsala (Sweden)
1654
Johannes Janssonius

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Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Paintings: Part II

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October 10, 2015, 10:30 AM CET

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