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- Horsemen in the 16th & 17th C.
- €39,00
- 16 & 17 cent. knights, cavalry skirmish & equestrian school in the art of Jacob De Gheyn & A. De Bruyn The celebrated Dutch artist Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1625), famous author of 1608 masterpiece titled: Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, mousquet et piques in French language, and Exercise of armes in English. He is also the creator of a finest series of 22 numbered prints titled: “De ruiterschool” (the equestrian school”) composed by a frontispiece, 20 prints in which one or a…
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- Heidelberg Turnierbuch 1482
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- This German manuscript Turnierbuch is a falsification of the “Heidelberg Tournament Book of the Jost Pirckhammer of 1486” realized in 1886. Today it is preserved in Heidelberg University Library. Always and in any time, people were fascinated by the Middle Ages. And as always, writings and other legacies from the Middle Ages were an expensive and coveted commodity. And where there was a need for rare originals, there were always a “creative contemporaries” who were able to recreate old originals... In appendix…
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- Dutch & Imperial soldiers: by Adam Van Breen & Hendrick Goltzius
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- The military evolutions of the Prince of Nassau in the art of Adam van Breen and Hendrick Goltzius The famous German-Dutch artists Adam Van Breen & Hendrick Goltzius put his considerable talents to work also in the realization of several esign on military subjets . The Adam van Breen illustrated work of 1617 “The military evolutions of the Prince of Nassau” that we present for the first time with complete color plates in this book. About 50 handsome copper engravings, magnificently…
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- British Army uniforms in 1742: In the art of John Pine
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- The XVIII century uniforms of the British Army from: “A Representation of the Clothing of His Majesty’s Household and all the Forces upon the Establishments of Great Britain & Ireland 1742”. This illustrated “war” book was commissioned directly by William Augustus the Duke of Cumberland, the victor of Culloden, to realize a particular gift to his brother, King George II, and shows in 94 colour illustrations the uniform of all units and establishments of the British army in the 1742,…
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- Austrian army during the napoleonic wars 1813-1818
- Il prezzo originale era: €32,00.Il prezzo attuale è: €30,00.
- The Imperial and Royal or Imperial Austrian Army (German: Kaiserlich-königliche Armee, abbreviation "K.K. Armee") was the armed force of the Holy Roman Empire under its last monarch, the Habsburg Emperor Francis II, although in reality, it was nearly all composed of the Habsburg army. When the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806, it assumed its title of the Army of the Austrian Empire under the same monarch, now known as Emperor Francis I of Austria. The ancient name of…