1686 GREEK & ROMAN Military Dutch Netherlands Wars Elephants Woodcuts Paffenrode
Jan van Paffenrode was a 17th-century Dutch soldier who was much better known for his poems and writings on military tactics than his military service. After the successes of his poems and his translation portions of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, Paffenrode wrote a treatise on Greek and Roman military at the onset of the Franco-Dutch War in in the 1670s. This work, “Greek and Roman Military Trade” compared ancient classical battle tactics to modern Dutch techniques.
This 1686 edition includes numerous engravings depicting gear and weaponry used in ancient battles – footwear, helmets, scepters. However, the illustration of the War Elephant is easily the most interesting of all of the engravings found in this work!
1686 GREEK & ROMAN Military Dutch Netherlands Wars Elephants Woodcuts Paffenrode
Jan van Paffenrode was a 17th-century Dutch soldier who was much better known for his poems and writings on military tactics than his military service. After the successes of his poems and his translation portions of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, Paffenrode wrote a treatise on Greek and Roman military at the onset of the Franco-Dutch War in in the 1670s. This work, “Greek and Roman Military Trade” compared ancient classical battle tactics to modern Dutch techniques.
This 1686 edition includes numerous engravings depicting gear and weaponry used in ancient battles – footwear, helmets, scepters. However, the illustration of the War Elephant is easily the most interesting of all of the engravings found in this work!
Item number: #25409
Price: $950
PAFFENRODE, Jan van
Der Grieken en Romeynen krygs-handel: ofte Beschrijvinge van de Griekse en Roomse land-militie
tot Leiden: by Pieter vander Meersche Boek-verkooper tegen over de Academie, 1686.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [28], 390, [16]
- 24 full-page and in-text engravings
- Provenance: Handwritten – [ Klerck]
- Language: Dutch
- Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
- Size: ~12.75in X 8in (32.5cm x 20cm)
- Rare and desirable
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25409
Categories
Classical Greco-Roman
Military & War
Authors
PAFFENRODE, Jan van
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
Dutch
Binding
Vellum
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete