Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 Vols.) : Catalogue of Early Printed Books From Before 1801 in Dutch Military Collections

An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations.The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft How to go to your page......Page 2 VOLUME I ......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Part one - Preliminary ......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 1 Warfare and the age of printing General introduction (Louis Ph. Sloos) ......Page 18 2 The Ministry of Defence’s treasury of books: 10,000 volumes from the16th to the 18th century Military libraries in the Netherlands(1600 – 1940) and their historical legacy (Louis Ph. Sloos)......Page 24 2.1 Books found in soldiers’ abandoned knapsacks......Page 25 2.2 The library at the Military Engineers and Fencing School at the University of Leyden, 1600......Page 27 2.3 Historic professional literature formilitary librarians......Page 29 2.4 The first corps libraries......Page 32 2.5 Men of the world......Page 34 2.6 The development of the military library system 1795 – 1821......Page 35 2.7 Success and formalisation of the corps libraries, 1821 – 1826......Page 37 2.8.1 The formation of the Army Museum’s corecollection, 1913 – 1974......Page 39 2.9.1 Old and royal books for a new institution......Page 46 2.9.2 The War Depot (1806 – 1810/1813) and War Archive (1814 – 1841) libraries......Page 49 2.9.2.1 The Office of the Grand Master of Artillery’s library, 1814 – 1841......Page 55 2.9.2.2 The professional library of military family De Veye’s (De Burine)......Page 57 2.10 The Royal Family’s military literature collection......Page 58 2.11 The Staff School library......Page 61 2.12 The historical book collections of the Ministry of Defence that belong to the Royal Netherlands Army’s collection,carry an A-status and come under theArmy Museum’s control......Page 62 2.12.1 The Netherlands Cavalry Museum in Amersfoort......Page 63 2.12.2 The Netherlands Artillery Museum in Oldebroek......Page 65 2.12.3 The Engineers Museum in Vught......Page 67 2.13 The Royal Netherlands Military Academy library in Breda......Page 69 2.14 The Netherlands Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defence in The Hague......Page 75 2.14.2 Institute of Maritime History......Page 76 2.15 The Royal Netherlands Naval Academy library in Den Helder......Page 79 2.16 The library of the Colonial Military Nursing Home, Bronbeek/Bronbeek Museum in Arnhem......Page 82 3 The army of the Dutch Republic and the military revolutions (Olaf van Nimwegen)......Page 86 3.1 Introduction......Page 87 3.2 Landsknechts: the origins of the Dutcharmy (sixteenth century)......Page 89 3.3 The Dutch army (late sixteenth century first half of the seventeenth century)......Page 95 3.4 The Dutch standing army (second half of the seventeenth century-first half of the eighteenth century)......Page 102 3.5 The Dutch army in decline (second half of the eighteenth century)......Page 109 3.6 Conclusion......Page 111 4 Introduction to the catalogue......Page 112 4.3 Bibliographic unity......Page 113 4.4 Umbrella and part descriptions......Page 114 4.7 The formal description......Page 115 4.8 Description of material......Page 117 4.9 Literature......Page 122 4.10 Abbreviations......Page 125 4.11 Concordance of shelf-marks......Page 126 Part two - Catalogue ......Page 129 1 Military dictionaries, encyclopaedias, general works......Page 148 2 Army organisation, regulations, instructions, military law......Page 174 3 Art of war, strategy, general tactics, defence, offence, etc.......Page 274 4 Military periodicals......Page 372 5 Infantry (including fencing)......Page 388 6 Cavalry (including equitation and veterinary science)......Page 432 7 Artillery (including equipment, gunpowder, pyrotechnics, etc.)......Page 494 8 Fortification (including engineering)......Page 562 Colophon......Page 666 VOLUME II ......Page 671 Contents......Page 672 9 Navy (including voc, maritime works,navigation, ship-building, etc.)......Page 692 10 Works on several armed forces......Page 780 11 Civic guards, citizen guards and militia......Page 792 12 Military history, military biography......Page 798 13 Micellaneous military works......Page 992 14 Mathematics, physics, natural history,architecture and technology......Page 1004 Colophon......Page 1170 VOLUME III ......Page 1175 Contents......Page 1176 15 Geography, countries, topography,ethnography (including atlases)......Page 1212 16 Dutch history, biography (including periodical documents)......Page 1438 17 Foreign history, biography (including ancient and classical historyand periodical documents)......Page 1620 18 Political science and (war) law......Page 1742 19 Philosophy, morals, theology......Page 1774 20 Linguistics, literature......Page 1792 21 Arts......Page 1804 22 General enyclopaedias etc.......Page 1814 23 Bibliography, library catalogues, etc.......Page 1850 24 Periodicals (including proceedings oflearned societies)......Page 1856 Colophon......Page 1930 INDICES ......Page 1935 Index of (corporate) authors, editors, compilers, translators......Page 1938 Index of anonymous titles......Page 1954 Index of publishers, printers, engravers and booksellers......Page 1986 Index of place names......Page 2004 Colophon......Page 2010