1630 1ed De Militia Equestri Hugo Illustrated Military War Battle Formation RARE
An incredible original 1630 edition of Herman Hugo’s Militia Equestri!
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1630 1ed De Militia Equestri Hugo Illustrated Military War Battle Formation RARE
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An incredible original 1630 edition of Herman Hugo’s Militia Equestri!
We find this same book for sale elsewhere for more than $3,900!
Main author: Herman Hugo
Title: De militia equestri antiqua et noua ad regem Philippum IV. libri quinque.
Published: Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1630.
Language: Latin
Notes & contents:
- 1st edition
- Engraved title page
- By Corn. Galleus
- including depictions of an elephant, winged horse, camel, horses and centaur; woodcut printer’s device with motto “Labore et constantia” on verso
- 34 engravings throughout of cavalry and/or foot soldiers.
- 25 in-text engravings engraved illustrations
- 5 full page engraved illustrations
- Including frontispiece
- 4 folding plates.
- Signatures: *⁴ A-Vv⁴ Xx⁶ (Xx6 blank).
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Wear: wear as seen in photos
Binding: tight & secure fine leather binding
Pages: complete with all 344 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such
Publisher: Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1630.
Size: ~12.75in X 8.5in (32.5cm x 22cm)
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Herman Hugo (9 May 1588 – 11 September 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624,[1] was “the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century”.[2] It went through 42 Latin editions and was widely translated up to the 18th century.[3]
Life[edit]
Herman Hugo was born in Brussels. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Louvain. He died of plague on 11 September 1629 at Rheinsberg.[4]
Works[edit]
Pia desideria emblematis elegiis at affectibus SS. Patrum illunstrata, Antwerp, 1624
Obsidio bredana, Antwerp, Plantin office, 1626. An account of the Siege of Breda (1624) by Ambrogio Spinola.
Category
Military & War
Authors
Herman Hugo
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
Latin
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Good
Collation
Complete