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Mahler. Ediz. Inglese
The life and the loves of the great European composer Gustav Mahler !
Play the Seven Years' War 1756-1763 - Vol. 2
The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a global conflict that spanned five continents, setting off what Winston Churchill later called "the first world war".
The landsknechts
The German Landsknechte (German plural, singular Landsknecht), meaning "servants of the land", were colourful mercenary soldiers with a redoubtable reputation, who took over the Swiss forces' legacy and became the most formidable military force of the late 15th and throughout 16th century Europe, consisting predominantly of German and Swiss mercenary pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, they achieved the reputation for being the universal mercenary of early modern Europe. Was Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519, the founder of the first mercenary Landsknecht regiments in 1487. He called upon Georg von Frundsberg (1473–1528), known by many as the Father of the Landsknechte, to assist him in their organization. Our book, cover all the history of this soldiers with finest illustration and 16 colour plates.
Heidelberg Turnierbuch 1482
This German manuscript Turnierbuch is a falsification of the "Heidelberg Tournament Book of the Jost Pirckhammer of 1486" realized in 1886. Today it is preserved in Heidelberg University Library. Always and in any time, people were fascinated by the Middle Ages. And as always, writings and other legacies from the Middle Ages were an expensive and coveted commodity. And where there was a need for rare originals, there were always a "creative contemporaries" who were able to recreate old originals... In appendix twelve plates o knights, dames ans soldiers of XVIth century.
Play the Seven Years' War 1756-1763 - Vol. 1
The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a global conflict that spanned five continents, setting off what Winston Churchill later called "the first world war".
1915-1918 La Guerra Italo-austriaca
Soldiershop is proud to present in the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War his project of colorized images of the WW1, The images featured not only the great battles of the war...
German & French Armies in the Great War
Wonderful book related one hundred of color photos of the German and French armies in the great war 1914-1918
Horsemen in the 16th & 17th C.
16 & 17 cent. knights, cavalry skirmish & equestrian school in the art of jacob de gheyn & A.De bruyn The celebrated Dutch artist Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1625), famous author of 1608 masterpiece titled: Maniement d'armes, d'arquebuses, mousquet et piques in French language, and Exercise of armes in England. He is also the creator of a finest series of 22 numbered prints titled: "De ruiterschool" (the equestrian school") composed by a frontispiece, 20 prints in which one or a few different types (most armor) riders are shown, and a print of a cavalry skirmish. The second part present the artworks of Abraham De Bruyn (1539-1587), a famous Flemish Engraver. He is ranked among the Little Masters on account of his plates being usually very small. The De Bruyn series in based on several European knights and horsemen in the 16th century. The great part of all this plates are presnted for the first time in full colour!!
Dutch & Imperial Soldiers
The military evolutions of the Prince of Nassau in the art of Adam van breen and Hendrick Goltzius. The famous German-Dutch artists Adam Van Breen & Hendrick Goltzius put his considerable talents to work also in the realization of several esign on military subjets . The Adam van Breen illustrated work of 1617 "The military evolutions of the Prince of Nassau" that we present for the first time with complete color plates in this book. About 50 handsome copper engravings, magnificently portray the step-by-step sequence for training foot soldiers in the handling of the standard weaponry of the XVII century warfare: The exercise with sword, pike and shield. The second parte it is related to Hendrick Goltzius work, based on 26 men at arms, also know as Rudolph's army soldiers. This book complete the first already published of Jacob de Gheyn The Exercise of Armes. A third about cavalry men and knight of the same period, and always realized by great Dutch artists are in working. Three volume that presents a meticulously accurate portrait of uniforms and weapons of the era of Netherlands and Europe, in addition to the aesthetic appeal of its remarkable engravings of this great artist!
I soldati del Papa
Breve ma completo trattato sulla storia dell’esercito del papa, si focalizza soprattutto agli ultimi anni della sua esistenza, quelli vissuti durante il Risorgimento italiano dal 1818 al 20 settembre 1870. Il bel supporto iconografico è offerto da una rarissima raccolta di 29 squisiti acquerelli di proprietà dell’editore, ritraenti tutti i corpi armati pontifici nel fatale anno 1870.
