The Cottesloe Military Library
Sale #L19418
10am & 2:30pm
5am EST Live Auction
The Cottesloe Military Library is probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters. Carefully assembled by the third Lord Cottesloe, Thomas Fremantle, the library includes works on all aspects of military theory and practice from the earliest printed books to the age of Napoleon.
Highlights of the library include early editions of the late classical author Vegetius and the Renaissance writers Roberto Valturio and Niccolò Machiavelli, together with a fine presentation binding for Charles II and William Caxton’s printing of Christine de Pisan, numerous sixteenth-century English works and some fine manuscripts. This comprehensive collection contains works on weaponry, training, architecture, engineering (including a first edition of Galileo’s final treatise on the strength of materials), pyrotechnics, ballistics, archery, chivalry, and the English Civil War.
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Fri, Nov 15th 9am - 4:30pm
Sat, Nov 16th 12pm - 5pm
Sun, Nov 17th 12pm - 5pm
Mon, Nov 18th 9am - 4:30pm
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Mayfair, London, UK
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Sotheby's - London
