Arms & Armour.- Breen (Adam van) Maniement d'armes de Nassau, avecq rondelles, piques, espees, & targes, The Hague, 1618 [and] Gheyn (Jaques de) [Maniement D'Armes D'Arquebuses, Mousquetz, et Piques], Amsterdam, 1608.

Arms & Armour.- Breen (Adam van) Maniement d'armes de Nassau, avecq rondelles, piques, espees, & targes, engraved pictorial title and 43 plates only, of which 4 folding, 4 plates with light brown streak within image, occasional spotting, a few small light stains, The Hague, no printer, 1618 bound with Gheyn (Jaques de) [Maniement D'Armes D'Arquebuses, Mousquetz, et Piques], 72 engraved plates only (of 117), lacking engraved title, 2 very small wormholes, increasing to a small trace to upper right-hand corner of majority of plates, within platemark, but normally in background, plates 29 and 30 with marginal repairs, occasional spotting, a few small stains, [Amsterdam], [Robert de Baudous], [1608], together two works in 1 vol., 8 text ff. in total, 1 with marginal repairs, just touching part of the odd letter, new endpapers, late 18th / early 19th century half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, rubbed, folio (334 x 244mm.) sold as a collection of plates and not subject to return.

⁂ A striking series of plates detailing shield, sword, pike and musket exercises.