1630 1ed De Militia Equestri Hugo Illustrated Military War Battle Formation RARE

1630 1^ed 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!

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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:

• 1^st 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.