Title Warfare and the age of printing : catalogue of early printed books from before 1801 in Dutch military collections : with analytical bibliographic descriptions of 10,000 works / Louis Ph. Sloos [project leader, compiler and general editor].

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents	VOLUME 1; Contents; Part one, preliminary; Acknowledgments; Preface; I Warfare and the age of printing General introduction (Louis Ph. Sloos); 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); 2.1 Books found in soldiers' abandoned knapsacks; Part I Settings; 2.2 The library at the Military Engineers and Fencing School at the University of Leyden, 1600; 2.3 Historic professional literature formilitary librarians; 2.4 The first corps libraries.
Summary	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.
Subject	Military art and science -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Early printed books -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Military libraries -- Netherlands -- Catalogs.
	Military art and science -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Military art and science -- Netherlands -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Netherlands -- History, Military -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Military art and science.
	Reference & resource series.
	REFERENCE.
	Early printed books. (OCoLC)fst00900645
	Military art and science. (OCoLC)fst01020874
	Military libraries. (OCoLC)fst01021311
	Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
Genre/Form	Bibliography -- Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423688
	Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
Added Author	Sloos, Louis Ph.
Other Form:	Print version: Warfare and the age of printing. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004172418 (OCoLC)244058856
ISBN	9789047425885 (electronic bk.)
	904742588X (electronic bk.)

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