The military discipline, London, 1623, later red morocco, Huth copy

MILITARY DISCIPLINE

The Military Discipline wherein is most Martially Shone the order of Drilling for ye Musket and Pike... Set forth in Postures with the words of Command and Briefe Instructions for the Right use of the same. London: Roger Daniel, 1623

8vo (210 x 140mm.), 19 leaves of plates with 4 images to a sheet (including the title), with an additional engraving of a Arab on horseback bound as a frontispiece, nineteenth-century red morocco by Bedford, gilt edges, a few leaves shaved 

RARE. This set of plates was issued by the Privy Council to accompany their Instructions to Musters (also 1623; see lot 255 for both works together). The additional engraving (German, probably late sixteenth century) of an Egyptian Arab on horseback is within a fine border of birds and flowers (on a separate plate), with captions in Latin and German, and is numbered 69.

LITERATURE:

Cockle 97; ESTC S643 (listing 5 copies); STC 794.5

PROVENANCE:

Alfred Henry Huth, gilt morocco booklabel, sale, Sotheby's, 6 July 1916, lot 4983, £10, Maggs