Militaire

An abridgment of the english Military discipline

1685AQ22730London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb 1685. 271pp 1. ESTC R7189 Wing A105. Bound with: Rules and articles For the better Government of His Majesties Land-Forces In Pay during this present rebellion. London. Printed by Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb. 1685 36pp. ESTC R28828 Wing R2239. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf later rebacked preserving contemporary backstrip. Rubbed head-cap perished. Early manuscript shelf-marks to FEP early inscription of Hugh Scott to title page of first mentioned work dampstaining primarily confined to margins of first work more extensive in second. A scarce late seventeenth-century martial manual on the English army line infantry formations. First printed in 1676 the work is primarily devoted to the correct battlefield positioning of pikes and muskets; detailed instruction is provided for the efficient command of personnel in order to maximise damage inflicted and minimise friendly losses. The information is presented in an efficient and remarkably accessible manner the directions for the 'exercise of the musquet' for example are arranged as a list of succinct stages easily comprehended: 'Handle you Charger / Open it with your Teeth / Charge with Powder.' Successive editions each a revision on the last accommodated advances in military technology such as the introduction of flintlock firing mechanisms and the wide-spread employment of the bayonet. This copy is paired with a reissue of the regulations for the conduct of the infantry occasioned by the onset of the Monmouth Rebellion during which the ranks of the English Army swelled in response to the threat of the deposition of James II. . Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb unknown

Antiquates Ltd · Royaume-Uni750,00 £GB≈ 856,35 €

[SCOTTISH ARMY]Biblio.com

Articles of militarie discipline

1639AQ22724Edinburgh: Printed by James Bryson 1639. 16pp. Modern blind-ruled tree-calf contrasting black morocco lettering-piece T.E.G. Marbled endpapers trimmed occasionally affecting pagination and signature. Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters' with the bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle 3rd Lord Cottesloe 1862-1965 to FEP. The sole edition of the articles of conduct for the army of 16000 men raised by the Covenanters and commanded by Alexander Leslie first Earl of Leven c. 1580-1661 at the outset of the First Bishops' Wars. The articles besides the expected regulations regarding behaviour towards superior officers and prohibitions concerning desertion reflect the religious reformation championed by the Covenanter authorities. The ecclesiastical social order of the army was structured to mirror the hierarchy of the Church. A 'Kirke Session' applied to each regiment in order to censure 'profainers of the sabbath swearers and drunkards especially such as shall be found drinking in time of prayers of divine service'. Infantrymen were expected to remain celibate whilst in service prostitutes were forbidden in camp and those found to have committed rape were to be executed. ESTC S100228 STC 21904.5. First edition. Quarto. Printed by James Bryson unknown

Antiquates Ltd · Royaume-Uni1 250,00 £GB≈ 1 427,25 €

STANDING ARMY DISPUTE, 1697]Biblio.com

Collection of 5 items bound together on the issue of a Standing Army.

169757867PEACETIME ARMIES ENABLE ABSOLUTISM - AN IMPORTANT DEBATE WITH ENDURING IMPLICATIONS - GIFTED BY A JACOBITE LONDON BANKER TO AN IRISH LANDOWNERCollection of 5 items bound together on the issue of a Standing Army being:- TRENCHARD John An Argument shewing that a Standing Army is inconsistent with a Free Government and absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy. London: Printed in the Year: 1697 4to. iv numbered v in error 30 2 advertisement & blankpp. . bound with MOYLE Walter The Second Part of an Argument shewing that a Standing Army is inconsistent with a Free Government and absolutely destructive to the Constitution of the English monarchy. With remarks on the late published list of King James's Irish forces in France. London: Printed in the Year: 1697 4to. 27 1 blankpp. . bound with SOMERS John A Letter ballancing the Necessity of keeping a Land-Force in times of Peace: with the Dangers that may follow on it. London: Printed in the year: 1697 4to. 2 blank 2 title 16pp. complete with preliminary blank . bound with TRENCHARD John A Letter from the Author of the Argument against a Standing Army to the Author of the Balancing Letter. London: Printed in the Year: 1697 4to. 15 1 blankpp. . bound with FLETCHER Andrew A Discourse concerning Militia's and Standing Armies with relation to the Past and Present Governments of Europe and of England in particular. London: Printed in the Year: 1697 4to. 2 30pp. The five items bound together in contemporary mottled calf decorative blind tooled panels on sides marbled endpapers very small stain at outer top corner of the last two items small piece of shaved calf repair to the calf skin prior to binding flaked away near upper edge of rear board else a fine fresh copy. Contemporary signature on title of first item "Natt. Horneby" and inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf in a calligraphic hand "Nathaniel Horneby/ Esquire/ 1700" and below that probably at a slightly later date "his gift to Robt. Mc Causland". 1 Trenchard: ESTC r509611 WING T2110. This issue has a press-figure dagger only on leaf B1v and an advertisement on final leaf. Signature C2 is under the "ere is" of "there is". This edition is rare with ESTC locating 5 copies only 2 in B.L. 2 in Oxford & 1 other. See ESTC R16216 for another edition. Wing does not distinguish between the editions. 2 Moyle ESTC r177336 WING M3030 ESTC notes "The first part entitled An argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government was written by John Trenchard and Walter Moyle. It is often thought Trenchard also assisted in the second part; however attributed solely to Moyle by BM Wing". 3 Somers ESTC r11547 WING S4642 4 Trenchard ESTC r16213 There are 2 printings this one line 8 of title page has: 'Balancing'; there is no press-figure on p. 7; p. 15 has additional paragraph beginning: "Now Sir if a Parliament should subject all the Lands .". WING T2113 5 Fletcher ESTC r5238 WING F1294Following his invasion of England in 1688 the Glorious Revolution William of Orange became King William III and reigned jointly with his wife Mary. The English parliament's Bill of Rights of 1689 established a constitutional monarchy with extensive restrictions on the royal prerogative. One of those restrictions was that the Sovereign could not raise a standing army during peacetime without parliamentary consent. While William opposed such constraints he accepted them and chose not to engage in a conflict with Parliament. In the following years William was much engaged in European wars that ended with the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697. The wars now over parliament to the king's displeasure decided to reduce the size of the army to 10000 men and later to 7000. The ideological and political significance of the issue was argued out in a series of pamphlets of which these five are probably the most important on both sides of the issue. "The pamphlets . had a powerful effect upon the immediate controversy of 1697-99. The anti-army tracts moreover played a vital role in the formulation of an anti-army attitude which lived on in eighteenth century England and was transmitted along with many other ideas in liberal and republican seventeenth political thought to the American colonies. . Against the peacetime army were principally John Trenchard Walter Moyle Andre Fletcher of Saltoun the Rev. Samuel Johnson and John Toland. Arguing for the king's proposal were chiefly the lord chancellor John Somes and Daniel Defoe . Outstanding among the men who opposed the army was John Trenchard who may be regarded as the leader of the pamphleteers" Schwoerer. Trenchard 1662 - 1723 educated at T.C.D. studied law in London and was a man of considerable wealth through inheritance and marriage. From initial support of the 1689 Revolution he became disenchanted with William and used his wide knowledge of sixteenth and seventeenth century republican political thought to oppose what he judged to be a potentially dangerous power grab by the monarchy. His Argument written in conjunction with Moyle the first pamphlet in this collection launched the debate and determined its parameters. Moyle's Second Part continued their argument. Somers apparently without great conviction argued for retention of a standing army and Trenchard in turn wrote a riposte. Fletcher of Saltoun 1655 - 1716 Scottish writer patriot and politician had returned from European exile with William of Orange in 1688 but terminated his support when he judged that William also King of Scotland was only interested in using the country to help fight foreign wars. He like the other anti-army writers argued that history indicated a direct relationship between absolutism and a peacetime army. He perceived a decay in liberty around 1500 a product of economic and social changes that produced luxury and an abandonment of an old frugal military way of life. Such circumstances allowed defence of the realm to slip into the hands of princes who eliminated ancient rights and freedoms. England the last bastion of liberty faced following 'all the other kingdoms of Europe' along this path unless she avoided a standing army in peacetime. Trenchard and his supporters the group of Whig religious political and economic reformers later sometimes Commonwealth men through their writings promoted republicanism in Britain. However while they were rejected in Britain their ideas were widely influential in British colonial America and on Republicanism in the United States. Nathaniel Hornby or Horneby a London goldsmith and banker served as a Commissioner of Excise 1683 to 88 and in 1691. From the Restoration in 1660 to 1683 the state's excise was farmed out to investors willing to pay the government for the right to collect taxation. In 1683 a new group of Commissioners was chosen to be more efficient in collection than the foregoing. The Revolution of 1688/89 overturned the leadership of the excise branch and only 2 of the 7 Commissioners in office in Feb. 1688 survived a purge in April 1689 with most removed for political reasons. In 1684 when a remodelled department was considered "Sir John Somers whose influence was rising as the Whigs ascended recommended dismissal for virtually all of the commissioners. In particular he singled out Nathaniel Nornby and Thomas Aram who 'were such avowed Jacobites that there was nothing to be said for them'" Krenzke. Nathaniel Hornby perhaps to provide himself with a bolt-hole far from London in the early 18th century rented a house and farm at Muff now Eglinton in Co. Londonderry from Ireland richest commoner and Speaker of the Irish parliament William Conolly himself a head tenant of the London Grocer's Company. Robert McCausland lived at Fruit Hill now Drenagh only a few miles from Muff and near Limavady. That estate was bequeathed to him on his death by William Conolly in 1729 and thereafter alternate eldest sons in the family were named Conolly. Modern McCausland family sources state that Robert was married to a daughter of Conolly but the latter was officially at least childless. Conolly did however support the families of his siblings which may be the connection. Evidently it was as neighbours that a rich London Jacobite banker came to know McCausland and present him with an important collection of pamphlets flagging the perils of creeping central power. From the inscription both men perceived the pamphlets as significant both in themselves and as a gift. Lois G. Schwoerer 'The Literature of the Standing Army Controversy 1697-1699' Huntington Library Quarterly vol. 28 no. 3 1965 p. 187-212 John Krenzke Change in Brewing. Industrialization of the London Beer Brewing Trade 1400-1760. hardcover

P & B Rowan · Royaume-Uni3 500,00 £GB≈ 3 996,30 €

Le Tellier, Michel (1603-1685)Antiquariat.de

D. Michael Tellier (...). Kupferstich-Porträt.

169053646Ohne Ort, um 1690. Platte ca. 18 x 13 cm, Blatt ca. 20,5 x 15 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.

Antiquariat Dennis R. Plummer · DE - Bingen am Rhein9,80 €

Beaulieu, Sebastien de Pontault Cartographe et Nicolas Cochin graveurLivre Rare Book

EAU-FORTE ORIGINALE : Le siège d'Arras levé par la défaite des ennemis. 1654. Echelle de 150 toises [=0, 064 m. : 1 : 4 700 env]. Dessiné sur les lieux par ordre du Roy et présenté à Sa Majesté A Paris, Par le Sr.De Beaulieu-le Donjon, Ingénieur et géographe ordre du Roy et Ayde de ses Camps et Armées. Avec Privilege 1655 ; N.Cochin sculpsit

1650282851650 1 estampe gravée en taille-douce à l'eau-forte en noir sur papier vergé ligné entoilé (avec traces des clous qui ont servi a la fixer tout autour d'un cadre avec traces de plis dans le mode de pliage de cette grande gravure), format : 206 x 179 cm, par Beaulieu, Sebastien de Pontault del. et gravé en noir par Nicolas Cochin, GRAVURE : Extrait des Memoires des généraux. Signé : La Mesnardière et Mesnarderius è Gallis Academicus. A Paris chez le sieur de Beaulieu, Ingénieur ordinaire du Roy, sur le Quay des Grans Augustins près le grand Portal de l'Eglise, au bout du Pont-Neuf. Avec privilège du Roy. 1656

Librairie Guimard · Nantes, France1 000,00 €

[Türkenkriege]. - Leopold I., KaiserAntiquariat.de

Edikt zum Verbot des Exports von Salpeter aus den österreichischen Landen.

166364458Graz, 6. Juni 1663. 1 Bl. mit einer Holzschn.-Anfangsinitiale, dem papiergedeckten Siegel des Kaisers u. vier Signaturen. Qu.-Fol. (37:49 cm).