Mendoza (Bernardino de)

Theorique and practise of warre. Written to Don Philip Prince of Castil, translated by Sir Edward Hoby,

first edition in English (?), lacking title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut first decorative initial and end-piece, lacking final blank, contemporary annotations and underlining throughout, closely trimmed slightly affecting some marginal notes, disbound,[ STC 17819], small 4to, [Middelburg, [printed by Richard Schilders, 1597.]

*** First edition (?) in English of this important treatise, The first edition was 1595. It was intended as a manual for the instruction of the young prince (the future Philip III), to whom it is dedicated.