The exercise of armes for caliures, muskettes, and pikes : After the ordre of his Excellence. Maurits Prince of Orange Counte of Nassau etc. gouernour and captaine generall. ouer Geldreland. Holland, Zeeland, Vtrecht. Overyssel. etc. Sett forthe in figures. by Iacob de Gheyn. With written instructions. for the service of all captaines and comaundours. For to shewe hereout the better vnto their jong or vntrayned souldiers the playne and perfett maner to handle these armes.

The exercise of armes for caliures, muskettes, and pikes : After the ordre of his Excellence. Maurits Prince of Orange Counte of Nassau etc. gouernour and captaine generall. ouer Geldreland. Holland, Zeeland, Vtrecht. Overyssel. etc. Sett forthe in figures. by Iacob de Gheyn. With written instructions. for the service of all captaines and comaundours. For to shewe hereout the better vnto their jong or vntrayned souldiers the playne and perfett maner to handle these armes.

Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen. English

[Amsterdam and/or the Hage] : They are toe bye at Amsterdam by Robert de Baudous. 1608 Printed at the Hage. With priviledge of the Emperours Matie. the King of Fraunce, and the noble and mightye Estates General of the vnited Provinces, [1608]

[14] p., 42, 43, 32 plates ; 33 cm (full-sheet)

A translation of: Gheyn, Jacob de. Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen.

The title page is engraved, with compartments left blank for three English pasted-on engraved labels: (1) arms of Henry, later Prince of Wales, (2) title (see next note for variant), and (3) imprint. Title page variant 1: dated 1607. Title variant 2: dated 1607, but blank spaces now engraved with the arms of Maurice, Prince of Orange (shield with bugles and lions rampant); title in French ("Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, et piques"); imprint "Imprimé a Amsterdam chez Robert de Baudous .."; Latin dedication to Maurice ("Illustrissimo principi, maximo duci, Mauritio Nassauio .."), ending with "On les vend' ausi a Amsterdam chez H. Laurens". Variant 3: like variant 2, but lacking the words "On les vend' ..".

Pasted-on label variant 1: lacks the line "They are toe bye ..".

This edition has six leaves of English letterpress: dedication and preface are on pi1; A-C1 contain directions for the caliver and musket; D-E1 contain directions for the pike.

Possible place(s) of publication suggested by STC.

Identified as STC 11810a on UMI microfilm, reel 596.

Curatorial file available.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 11811
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S116461

Netherlands.

STC 11811 (folio)

Imperfect: lacking pi1 and C1. T.p. variant 2 (with printed date "1607" manuscript altered to read "1608"). Contemporary manuscript captions (word commands) at foot of plates in first two series. Newspaper clipping entitled "The Prussian Needle-Gun" with manuscript note "War in Prussia 1866" pasted down on front free endpaper. German woodcut of the 1780 Gordon Riots in London pasted down on back free endpaper, too large for the volume, removed and cataloged as ART Inv. 1174 in 2008. Provenance: inscriptions on front paste-down: "John Robinson May 11 1821"; "R E Robinson 1838"; and "R.E. Thackeray curious book belonging to her dear Father + Grandfather formerly of the 3d foot Guards: 1854"; drawing of unidentified arms with deer crest and motto "per ardua" on front paste-down

4.3.39

STC 11810.2