The Cottesloe Military Library

The Cottesloe Military Library

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Cruso, Military Instructions for the Cavallrie, Cambridge, 1644, later half calf

Auction Closed

November 19, 05:30 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 900 GBP

Lot Details

Description

[CRUSO, JOHN]

Military instructions for the cavallrie: or rules and directions for the service of horse... Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1644


second edition, folio (302 x 195mm.), additional engraved title-page, 6 folding engraved plates, engraved illustrations (2 double-page), folding leaf between pp.30-31, nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, flat spine with red morocco lettering-piece, a few annotations in ink, some light browning, slight water damage to a few plates, rubbed


For the first edition, see lot 111.


LITERATURE:

ESTC R23795; Wing C7433


PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hetherston, ownership inscription on flyleaf dated December 1666 with price 7s