Arms and Armour.- Rugendas.- Der Harnisch Von Seinem Entstehen Bis Zu Seinem Wiedervergehen In Bildern Dargestelt Und Gezeichnet, [1714 and later].

Arms and Armour.- Rugendas.- Der Harnisch Von Seinem Entstehen Bis Zu Seinem Wiedervergehen In Bildern Dargestelt Und Gezeichnet V G.P. Rugendas, military interest manuscript with decorative title page and 14 fully worked watercolour plates illustrating armour through the ages, each with manuscript text in German verso, with 4 pp. of introductory text, titled and interleaved with an English translation, each leaf approx. 325 x 190 mm (12 3/4 x 7 1/2 in), some plates on variant laid papers, hinged on tabs bound with Argenteocorno (M.) I Gradi della Cavalleria inv. e delin. per Mat. Argenteocorno 1688, 18 watercolour plates of mounted figures and medallion portraits with battle scenes, including decorative pictorial title, many captioned underneath in Italian, with an additional loosely inserted watercolour monogrammed with the initials 'M.S.' in ligature, nineteenth-century red morocco by R.W. Smith, green calf doublures, joints rubbed, 4to, [1714 but later]

⁂ Highly decorative collection of drawings illustrating ancient, medieval and later armour, with further watercolours depicting thirteen cavalry ranks in uniforms of the War of Spanish Succession. The second manuscript also includes medallion portraits of Eugene of Savoy, Maximilian Emmanuel of Bavaria, Frederick William of Brandenburg and Alexander von Wurttenberg.