Autograph (in part) MS collection of essays on various subjects. Contents include: ""A System of Munitions or Fortifications,"" ""A System of Oeconomicks,"" ""A Systeme of Politiques,"" ""Of Common Places, or Memoriall Bookes"" 1681 Oct 19, ""Of Professions & Call
Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
Description:
Author possibly an English military adventurer who traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy., Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets., Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations., Ex libris Rhys Jenkins. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work., Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591., and Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn.
Traité des grandes opérations militaires ; 1. ptie
Description:
BEIN 1976 2090: Atlas wanting. and Half-title: Traité des grandes opérations militaires. Première partie. Histoire critique des guerres de Frédéric II; also published under this title.
Publisher:
Chez Magimel, Anselin et Pochard,
Subject (Name):
Frederick--II,--King of Prussia,--1712-1786 and Prussia--History--Frederick II, 1740-1786
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 Whitehorne, Peter
Published / Created:
1588
Call Number:
1980 60
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Art of war. and Arte della guerra English
Description:
3d edition. 1st edition appeared in 1560., BEIN: Bound with Whithorne, P. Certaine waies for the ordering of souldiours in battelray. London, 1588; and Cataneo, G. Most brief tables. London, 1588., Black letter., Imperfect: t.-p. slightly mutilated., and Signat