Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

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Venn, Thomas | Military & Maritine [sic] Discipline in Three Books... London, 1672, first edition, contemporary calf

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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3,500 USD

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Venn, Thomas

Military & maritine [sic] discipline in three books... To which is added the doctrine of projects applied to Gunnery by Galilaeus and Torricellio. London: E. Tyler and R. Holt, for Robert Pawlet, Tho. Passinger, and Benjamin Hurlock, 1672


First edition of this important work of seventeenth-century military science. The three parts deal with exercise of horse and foot, military architecture and fortification, and gunnery.


Small folio (295 x 188 mm). General title printed in red and black, two engraved frontispieces, 11 (of 12) folding engraved plates, engraved table, engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams; worming at upper margin, a few stray spots and ink smudges, faint dampstaining to a few leaves. Contemporary brown calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, edges speckled red; rubbed, closed tear to head of spine, calf lifting from boards. 


REFERENCES

Riling 160; Spaulding & Karpinski 169; USTC 3088184; ESTC R25827; Wing V192


PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (pencil notation to front pastedown)

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