[ANGLESI (Baron d']:

The Military Mentor. Being a Series of Letters recently written by a General Officer to his Son, on his Entering the Army: Comprising a Course of Elegant Instruction, calculated to unite the Characters and Accomplishments of the Gentleman and the Soldier. Second Edition.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips..., 1804. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 336; iv, 286 [287 - 325 Index, 326 adverts], contemporary continental charcoal grey boards to a cat's paw design, gilt rules across spines, red leather labels; possibly lacking a leaf of adverts at end of volume 1, top portion of title-page in each volume defective, with pieces cut from margins to remove name and then crudely mounted on accounts paper, slight staining of text and margins in first few leaves of volume 1, corners worn, binding a little worn, with spine of volume 1 rubbed with white underlay exposed. This work is adapted from Conseils d'un militaire à son fils; par M. le baron d'A**** [i.e. Baron d'Anglesy], colonel d'infanterie. The English translator/ adapter has made a number of additions with a view to the British market. The first edition was published in the same year, and there were further editions in 1808, 1809, and 1813.

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Book number: 3413

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: military education prose

MORA (Domenico):

Il Soldato di M. Domenico Mora, Bolognese, Gentilhuomo Grisone, Nel Quale si Tratta di tutto quello, che ad un uero Soldato, & nobil Caualliere si conuiene sapere, & essercitare nel mestiere dell' arme. Et Questa, Secondo l'Ordine da noi posto è la quarta Gioia congiunta all'Anella della nostra Collana Historica. All'Illustrissimo et Eccellentissimo Signo, il Signor Duca di Parma, Piacenza & Castro, Gran Consaoloniere di Santa Chiesa. Con Privillegi.

In Vinetia Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrarii, 1570. Small 4to, pp. [vii], 254, 197 x 123 mms., fine full-page woodcut of soldier on horse before first page of text, 13 woodcuts in text, 26 letter diagrams of troop formations, including one full-page. woodcuts and plans in text; some upper margins closely trimmed. Domenico Mora (1530 - c. 1610) was an Italian writer and military leader who had lived twenty years in Poland working at the service of two kings of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stephen Báthory and Sigismund III Vasa. The work is divided into four parts, the first discussing the duties of a commanding officer; the second covers battle plans, tactics, and strategy; the third, fortification; and the fourth on attacking, conquering, and holding territory, usually a city. Mora expressed some scepticism about soldiers and the vocation of soldiering, asserting that many if not most were undisciplined, given to rape, plunder, and random killings. BOUND WITH: RUSCELLI (Girolama): Precetti dell Militia Moderna, tanto per Mare quanta per Terra, Trattati da diversi nobilissimi Ingegni, & raccolti con molta Diligenza dal Signor Girolamo Rkuscelli. Ne' qkuali si contiene tutta l'arte del Bombardiero, & si mostra l'orine che ha da tenere il maestro di campo, quando kjuvole accampae il suo essercito. Opera non meno dilettevole, che utile, molto necessaria a' Principi, & a tuti la disciplina militare. Col Privilegio. In Venetia, Appresso gli Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1583. 4to, foliated, [4], [1] - 59, with vignette of Sessa's cat on title-page, full-page woodcut illustrations and vignettes in text. Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. It has been said of Ruscelli that he was was able to write on glass (for example on wine goblets) in such a way that the words remained invisible until they were treated with a special mixture "whose composition will surely never be discovered." 2 volumes in 1, boun d in later 18th century full polished calf, gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, with one red morocco titling label (fragment only of second label), a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of Hopetoun House on the front paste-down end-paper and that of Thomas Francis Fremantle on the recto of the front free end-paper. A very good to fine copy. Cockle 663; Spaulding & Karpinski 30 (for Ruscelli).

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Book number: 9709

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: military war prose

NANNINI - FLORENTIO (Remigio):

Orationi Militari. Raccolte per M. Remigio, Fiorentino, da tutti gli Historici Greci e Latini, antichi e moderni. Con gli argomenti, che dichiarano l'occasioni, per le quali elle furono fatte. Con gli effetti, in questa seconda edizione, che elle fecero ne gli animi di coloro, che l'ascoltarono, dove sommariamente si toccano l'Historie di tutti i tempi. Con l'Aggiunta de moltic Historici, et Oration, non impresse nella prima. Dal medesimo Autore diligentemente corrette. Com Prvilegio.

In Vinegia Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1560 Large 8vo, 234 x 158 mms., pp. [xxxviii], 1004, with fine historiated initials through out, occasional marginal note in a 17th century owner's hand, that of Marchese Amico, whose autograph appears on the front paste-down end-paper, 19th century half sheepskin, gilt spine, marbled boards (a little rubbed). Remigio Nannini (1521 - 1581) was a respected and respectable Dominican man of letters, busily editing and translating scholarly works and the classics into Italian. He was employed by the publisher precisely to produce cheap (or cheap-ish) versions of classical works. In this work, first published in 1557, he has taken his material almost directly from dozens of sources, many of which have been identified by Nathalie Hester, in "Scholarly Borrowing: The Case of Remigio Nannini's Orationi Militari and Francois de Belleforest's Harangues Militaires," Modern Philology (November, 2003). Belleforest's later book was published in 1572. Salvatore Bongi, in Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari da Trino di Monferrato stampatore in Venezia (1890 - 95) describes this edition as preferable to the first.

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Book number: 6960

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: military anthology prose