Cavalry: The Military Horse through the Ages

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1 BERKER, W. Gefechtsformen der Kavallerie, 1810-15: Organisation und Taktik der Reiterei in den Befreiungskriegen und die darstellung mit Figuren. Witten, KLIO Arbeitsgruppe Waterloo, 1977.

Quarto. Pp. 42 printed on recto only i.e. 21 leaves of text. Plus 5 plates outside the pagination, printed on card paper. Illustrated with diagrams and troop formations. Footnotes, bibliography. Stencilled publication in original wrappers. In fine condition.

- - First edition. NOTE: This item is not subject to return, unless if found at variance with its description. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 125 --



2 BIDDULPH, Colonel John. The Nineteenth and Their Times: Being an Account of the Four Cavalry Regiments in the British Army that have Borne the Number Nineteen and of the Campaigns in Which They Served. London, John Murray, 1899.

Royal 8vo. Pp. xxii, 330. Aquatint photogravure (heliogravure) frontispiece (a charming portrait of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales) with facing tissue guard. Halftone vignette to title. Plus two aquatint photogravure portraits of fine quality with facing tissue guards; three hand-finished chromolithograph plates; one coloured lithograph plate with guidons; one halftone portrait; five engraved/line-drawn maps. Ten appendices, index. Hardcover, original dark blue cloth, upper cover decorated with gilt badges (“Mysore - Assaye - Niagara” and “Egypt 1882-84 Tel-El-Kebir, Nile 1884-85 Abu Klea) embossed on vellum within gilt border, spine lettered in gilt (faded). Uncut. In a very good condition. (Covers somewhat discoloured, marked; two consecutive leaves chipped in margins without any loss and well away from text). Nice copy.

€ 205 --



3 DIXON, Karen R., and Pat Southern. The Roman Cavalry: From the First to the Third Century AD. London, Batsford, 1992.

Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 256. Plus a suite of plates with 35 photographs. With 84 illustrations to text. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, with dust-jacket. In a very fine, as-new condition. Excellent.

- - First edition.
€ 30 --



4 HOEN, Max v., and Egon Fhr. v. Waldstätten. Die letzte Reiterschlacht der Weltgeschichte (Jaroslawice 1914). Zürich, Amalthea, 1929.

Octavo. Pp. 158, (2) publisher’s ads. Plus two halftone plates bound in, and four folding maps (two of which printed with additional colours) loosely inserted in rear pocket as issued. Footnotes. Ribbon marker. Hardcover, original gilt-embossed orange cloth, spine decorated in gilt, shelf label, small faint dampmark to bottom margin of a few leaves. In a very good condition (old institutional stamp). A nice copy with a crisp set of maps.

- - First edition.
€ 45 --



5 HYLAND, Ann. Equus: The Horse in the Roman World. London, Batsford, 1990.

Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 285. Plus a suite of plates with 31 photographs. Maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s maroon cloth, with (price clipped) dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.

- - First edition.
€ 80 --



6 JUNKELMANN, Marcus. Die Reiter Roms. I: Reise, Jagd, Triumph und Circusrennen; II: Reitweise und militärischer Einsatz; III: Zubehör, Reitweise, Bewaffnung. (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, 45, 49, 53). [THREE VOLUMES]. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1990-92.

BRAND NEW. Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 293, with 49 colour and 234 black & white illustrations; 222, with 27 colour and 91 black & white illustrations; 277, with 33 colour and 166 Black & white illustrations. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s pictorial boards. A most beautiful, brand new set, not yet traded.

€ 120 --



7 KAISER, Georg. Construction der Kriegsfuhrwerke. Wien, Seidel, 1895.

Crown quarto. Pp. 144. Plus 7 large folding lithographed plates with numerous illustrations. With 42 illustrations to the text; tables. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Reading copy only. (Textual part is in a very good condition with some old institutional stamps and markings. Folding plates are in poor condition, torn, repaired.)

First edition. A remarkably detailed study on the construction of horse-drawn carts in military use. Probably the last such treatise to be written on the subject. Very scarce.
€ 420 --



8 MARX, [Daniel] Général de Brigade. Tableaux synoptiques des manoeuvres de cavalerie, Établis par demandes et par réponses, pour faciliter l’etude des manoeuvres de l’Ordonnance provisoire, rédigée, en l’an 13, par ordre de S.A.S. Mgr. le Prince de Neufchâtel et de Wagram. Strasbourg, Levrault, 1810.

Crown octavo. Pp. (iii), 78 double-page tables, (vi). Lacks last leaf of last table. With a handsome vignette of a mounted knight to title. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf, first free endpaper and half-title removed, spine gilt, 2 crimson morocco lettering-pieces gilt, extremities bit rubbed. Else a fresh, crisp copy in fine condition.

- - First edition. Provenance: From the private collection of the late Van Eupen, with his contemporary signature. Very rare. KVK locates just a single copy (National Library of France); OCLC lists a single copy worldwide, that in College of William & Mary, Virginia. Not in French Union Catalog.
€ 990 --



9 MASSON, Frédéric; Édouard Detaille. Cavaliers de Napoléon. Illustrations d’après les tableaux et aquarelles de Édouard Detaille. Paris, Boussod, Valadon, (1895).

Quarto. Pp. 238. With a total of 32 lithograph plates. Exquisite hand-coloured lithograph plate as frontispiece, printed on card, protected by tissue guard. Plus 21 lithograph plates, printed on Japanese paper, mounted on thick leaves of etching paper within plate-mark. Plus 10 smaller plates, lithographed directly on text leaves, all with facing tissue-guards printed with captions in red. Title-page, printed in red and black, with elaborate publisher’s device. Half-title present. Publisher’s imprimatur printed in red and black on last leaf. Minor sporadic foxing. Hardcover, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards, corner-tips slightly rubbed, spine in 6 compartments between raised band, direct gilt lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, triple-colour silken ribbon marker. With the original wrappers, printed in red and black, including spine strip, bound in. In a very fine condition, exceptionally well preserved. A most handsome copy.

- - First edition. Beautifully executed lithographs after the watercolours and drawings of Édouard Detaille. Provenance: from the privated collection of the late Master of Laws E. Bonn, with his bookplate.
€ 1100 --



10 MASTOWSKI, Maciej. Juliusz Kossak. Warszawa, Wydawnictwa, 1984.

4to. Pp. 52 text pages, plus 116 full-colour and halftone plates, mostly of which full-page. Hardcover, metallic blue cloth cloth, illustration silver-stamped, spine lettered in silver, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition.

First edition. Lavishly illustrated catalogue of art works dedicated to the equestrian in general, with a nice representation of the military horse in war time. Text in Polish.
€ 37 --



11 NEPPEL, Georg Nagyrévi v. Husaren in der Weltgeschichte. (Mit 70 farbigen und 216 einfarbigen Bildern und Zeichnungen.) Wiesbaden, Vollmer, 1975.

4to. Pp. 192. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full-page, and text illustrations. Notes, bibliography, indices. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, silver-stamped blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, with very good pictorial dust-jacket. Book is in a fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.

First German edition. Lavishly illustrated with numerous reproductions of works of art depicting Hussars of various armies. With an excellent survey of weapons and equipment.
€ 49 --



12 POLL, F. van der. Handleiding tot de paardenkennis, voor de kadetten der kavallerie en artillerie. Krijgskundige leercursus ten gebruike van de Koninklijke Miitaire Akademie. Schiedam, Schie, 1974.

Small 8vo. Pp. xx, 672. Illustrated. Hardcover, original leatherette, gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket. Good. (Endpapers bit marked; private ownership stickers, name; vague damping to first leaves.)

Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition.
€ 28 --



13 POSECK, Maximilian von. Der Aufklärungsdienst der Kavallerie, nach den Erfahrungen des Weltkrieges. Berlin, Mittler, 1927.

Octavo. Pp. 88. With line-drawn illustration. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, shelf labels to spine. In a very good condition (old institutional stamps and marks).

- - First edition. Two other works by Maximilian von Poseck were translated into English, “The German Cavalry in Belgium and France, 1914” (OCLC: 14912113); and “Engagement at Néry” (OCLC: 37570718 ), both published in 1922. Not on KVK nor OCLC. Not in the complete catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
€ 165 --



14 SCHOENBECK, Berthold. Hippologisches Alphabet. Handbuch für berittene Offiziere wie auch Pferdebesitzer jeden Ranges und Standes zur Orientierung im Umgang mit Pferden nebst Anleitung über deren Pflege. Leipzig, Zuckschwerdt, n.d (ca. 1890).

Royal octavo. Pp. 228, (16) illustrated advertisements, publisher’s catalogue. With 85 fine illustrations, some full-page. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine gilt, silken endpapers, all edges coloured red. In fine condition. Excellent copy of a lovely book, perfectly preserved.

€ 235 --



15 SCHREIBER, Georg. Des Kaisers Reiterei: Österreichische Kavallerie in vier Jahrhunderten. Wien, Kremayr & Scheriau, 1967.

Crown 4to. Pp. 320. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates and text illustrations, many of which are full- or double-page. Index. Illustrate endpapers. Hardcover, original green lemon cloth, spine gilt and black, with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition. (Tear to 2 illustrated leaves.)

First edition.
€ 22 --



16 SIMMONS, Sue (Editor). The Military Horse: The Equestrian Warrior through the Ages. London, Marshall Cavendish, 1976.

4to. Pp. 105. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates and text illustrations, many of which full- or double-page. Hardcover, original pale red cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Both are in new condition. Excellent.

First edition.
€ 30 --



17 STEFFEN, Randy. The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943. The United States Cavalryman: His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments. Volume I: The Revolution, the War of 1812, the Early Frontier, 1776-1850; Volume II: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, 1851-1880; Volume III: The Last of the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American war, the Brink of the Greta War, 1881-1916; Volume IV: World War I, the Peacetime Army, World War II, 1917-1943. [FOUR VOLUMES]. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1977-79.

Four volumes. Quarto. Pp. xix, 195; xii, 215; xi, 268; x, 136. Profusely illustrated throughout; colour plates. Indices. Set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt direct and on crimson ground, dark yellow endpapers, with dust-jackets. In a very fine condition. Excellent set, practically unused.

- - All four volumes are first edition. A classic, standard work, written and illustrated by Steffen (1917-1977), noted artist-historian of the American military and the west. A very handsome, complete set of the first edition exceptionally well preserved. - - FULL TITLES: The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943. The United States Cavalryman: His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments. Volume I: The Revolution, the War of 1812, the Early Frontier, 1776-1850; Volume II: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, 1851-1880; Volume III: The Last of the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American war, the Brink of the Greta War, 1881-1916; Volume IV: World War I, the Peacetime Army, World War II, 1917-1943. ISBN:#0806112832 ISBN:#0806114509 ISBN:#0806114517 ISBN:#0806114525
€ 350 --



18 STOLZ, Gerd, and Eberhard Grieser. Geschichte des Kavallerie-Regiments 5 “Feldmarschall v. Mackensen”: Geschichte seiner Stamm-Regimenter in Abrissen und Erinnerungen (1741-1945). München, Schild, 1975.

8vo. Pp. 352. With 12 full-colour- and 205 halftone plates and illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in, 34 text illustrations, 20 musical notes, 2 maps, 8 facsimiles. Hardcover, original bright lemon cloth, spine lettered in black, with dust-jacket (this good, with 2 short nicks, minor rubbing). Book is in fine condition. Excellent, crisp copy.

First edition. With a wealth of historical material, illustrations, and photographs, from the Regiment’s first days to the culmination of the Second World War.
€ 95 --



19 VALLET, L. Le Chic a Cheval. I. Histoire pittoresque de l’équitation. Ouvrage illustré de plus de 300 gravures dont 50 en couleurs d’après les dessins de l’auteur. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1891.

Royal quarto. Pp. half-title printed in red and black, chromolithograph frontispiece, title printed in red and black, title vignette, (ii) dedication from Vallet to Éduard Detaille and a facsimile letter from Detaille, (ii) dedication from Henri Lavedan to Vallet, (iv) preface by Henri Lavedan, 274, (2). Plus a total of 50 full-page chromolithographic plates, each with facing tissue guard with caption. With 254 illustrations to text. Large illustrated initials and tail-pieces. Original pictorial wrappers bound in, upper wrapper with marvellous full-page design and illustrations, lower wrapper with large, colourful vignette. Hardcover, bound in contemporary three-quarter shagreen, bit chafed and worn, marbled boards, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettered direct, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, one text leaf frail at fore-edge, one text leaf torn with no loss. In overall very good condition.

- - First and only edition. Retains the rare original pictorial wrappers in excellent condition. Lipperheide 2124. Vallet’s classic historical and artistic study of the equestrian, from antiquity to the end of the 19th Century. The numerous line drawn illustrations are extremely detailed and serve as a finely produced catalogue of equestrian and cavalry dress and accoutrements. The colour plates are the result of several techniques and processes. Beside chromolithographs, many were produced by a complicated and delicate process, now obsolete, which was invented in the early 1850’s by Firmin Gillot. Known as Gillotage, the process turned a lithographic drawing into a relief plate. Employing both planographic and relief methods, the process remained purely manual, involving no photography. The lithograph was transferred to zinc and then etched, in an extremely laborious process, to make a metal relief block from which the final print was made. Noteworthily, many of Daumier’s lithographic plates were treated in this way before their publication. Other plates here are the result of using compound metal line blocks. The colour was added by using multiple blocks, coloured by mechanical tints, to produce the rich, dense, chromatic plates.
€ 350 --



20 VALLET, Louis. Le Chic a Cheval. I. Histoire pittoresque de l’équitation; II. A Travers l’Europe. Croquis de Cavalerie. Ouvrage illustré de plus de 600 gravures dont 100 en couleurs d’après les dessins de l’auteur. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1891-93.

Two volumes. Royal quarto. Volume I: Pp. Half-title printed in red and black, chromolithograph frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, title printed in red and black, title vignette, (ii) dedication from Vallet to Éduard Detaille and a facsimile letter from Detaille, (ii) dedication from Henri Lavedan to Vallet, (iv) preface by Henri Lavedan, 274, (2). Plus a total of 50 full-page chromolithographic plates, each with facing tissue guard with caption. With 254 illustrations to text. Large illustrated initials and tail-pieces. Original pictorial wrappers bound in, upper wrapper with marvellous full-page design and illustrations, lower wrapper with large, colourful vignette. Volume II: Half-title printed in red and black, chromolithograph frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, afterimage and legend on verso, title printed in red and black, title vignette, (ii) dedication from Vallet to His Royal Highness Le Duc d’Aumale, ix-xvi including a preface by Roger de Beauvoir, 300, (iv). Plus a total of 50 full-page chromolithographic plates, each with facing tissue guard with caption. With 300 illustrations to text. Large illustrated initials and tail-pieces. Original pictorial wrappers bound in, upper wrapper with full-page illustration, lower wrapper with large, colourful vignette. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarter shagreen, marbled boards, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettered direct, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A very handsome set, well preserved, occasionally foxed or minutely marginally blemished. Overall in fine condition.

- - First and only edition. Both volumes retain the rare, original pictorial wrappers in excellent condition. Complete sets of this work are exceedingly scarce. Lipperheide 2124. Vallet’s classic historical and artistic study of the equestrian, from antiquity to the end of the 19th Century. The second volume is dedicated entirely to European cavalry. A visual celebration, this 2-volume set contains 100 exquisite colour plates and nearly 600 illustrations to text. The numerous line drawn illustrations are extremely detailed and serve as a finely produced catalogue of equestrian and cavalry dress and accoutrements. The colour plates are the result of several techniques and processes. Beside chromolithographs, many were produced by a complicated and delicate process, now obsolete, which was invented in the early 1850’s by Firmin Gillot. Known as Gillotage, the process turned a lithographic drawing into a relief plate. Employing both planographic and relief methods, the process remained purely manual, involving no photography. The lithograph was transferred to zinc and then etched, in an extremely laborious process, to make a metal relief block from which the final print was made. Noteworthily, many of Daumier’s lithographic plates were treated in this way before their publication. Other plates here are the result of using compound metal line blocks. The colour was added by using multiple blocks, coloured by mechanical tints, to produce the rich, dense, chromatic plates.
€ 980 --



21 WECK, Hervé de. La Cavalerie: A travers les ages. Lausanne, Edita, 1980.

4to. Pp. 227, (5). Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous halftone and colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and text illustrations. Bibliography. Stiff pictorial wrappers. In fine condition.

First edition. A visual celebration of the equestrian warrior through the ages.
€ 35 --

 

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