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Theorica & practica militaris. Das ist eigendtlicher bericht alles dessen so in kriegssachen beides zu landt und zu wasser zu bedencken und zu thun vonnoethen ist. Frankfurt am Main: Nicolas Hoffmann, 1617. [Bound with:] Tyrocinium. Das ist bericht und ubung nach welchem angehende soldaten sollen in allerhandt waffen abgericht werden . . . By Bartolomeo Pelliciari. Frankfurt am Main: Antonio Hummen, (1616).
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2 vols. in 1. 8vo, full later vellum. First printings in German of these two influential military treatises. Illustrated with engraved title pages and nine double-page battlefield views in the Pelliciari. Boards warped; pp. 221-222 of Theorica bound before 219-220; pp. 221-222 with repair to upper edge; Tyrocinium lacking preliminary leaf A2 (statement of dedication to “Johann Martin Bauer von Eyseneck,” the “Gerichts Schultheiss” of Frankfurt am Main).; otherwise complete. $600-800 26*
MURATORI, LODOVICO ANTONIO
Anecdota, quae ex Ambrosianae bibliothecae codicibus nunc primum eruit. Melodani: Typis Iosephi Pandulfi Malatestae, 1697-1713. 3 vols. 4to, full leather, spines gilt in compartments, leather spine labels, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Front boards detached on all three; call number stickers to spines; rubbing to boards; spotting to interior. Together with Novum lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Novuum D. N. I. C. Testamentum, by Christianus Schoettgenius (Leipzig: Bernh. Christ. Breitkopfii et filii, 1765) and An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric, by Hugh Blair (Poughkeepsie: Parclete Potter, 1813). Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 27
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Les metamorphoses d’Ovide, traduites en francais par Mr. du Ryer. Translated by Pierre du Ryer. Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1676. 3 vols. 8vo, full calf. Spine vol. 2 reinforced with clear tape; wear to boards; dampstaining to some leaves; minor foxing throughout; otherwise fine. $200-400
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