L'art militaire pour l'infanterie :
au quel est monstré I. Le maniement du mousquet & de la pique, un chascun en particulier, II. L'exercice d'une compagnie d'infanterie, selon la pratique du ... chef de guerre Maurice prince d'Orange ... declaré augmenté et corrigé, III. Belles & novelles ordonnances de batailles ... IV. La discipline militaire de l'infanterie, qui jusqu'a present a esté vsitée es regimens ongrois ... /
pratiqué & et descrit en language allemand par Iean Iaques de Walhausen ... traduit nouvellement en François.

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Main Author

Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von, active 17th century.

Related Names

Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?

Language(s)

French

Published

Imprimé à Franeker : Par Vldrick Balck, [1615]

Subjects

Infantry drill and tactics > Infantry drill and tactics / Early works to 1800.
Etchings > Etchings / Germany > Etchings / Germany / 17th century.

Note

Includes errata, p. [15] of preliminaries.
Signatures: )(-2)(⁴ A-Q⁴ R⁶.
Letterpress title within etched border incorporating a port. of Maurice of Nassau. The 28 double-page plates and 6 single-page were etched by de Bry. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Also published the same year in French and German editions at Oppenheim (Hieronymus Galler, printer).
Intended as the first of a series of military manuals; see preface.
Dedication to Maurice of Nassau signed by Theodor de Bry at Oppenheim, 30 Aug. 1615.

Physical Description

[16], 140 p., [62] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

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