1686 GREEK & ROMAN Military Dutch Netherlands Wars Elephants Woodcuts Paffenrode

1686 GREEK & ROMAN Military Dutch Netherlands Wars Elephants Woodcuts Paffenrode

Jan van Paffenrode was a 17^th-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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