16 hand-coloured plates from "Wapenhandelinghe".

Engravings, ca. 25,5 x 19 cm, laid paper, numbered in the plate, hand-coloured (some browning or spotting at blank margins, 1 blank corner repaired, a few upper corners torn off or remounted, 1 pl. sl. soiled).

Mounted by upper corners under passe-partout.

Nicely hand-coloured set coming from an edition of "Wapenhandelinghe van roers, musquetten, ende spiessen", a systematic manual on how to use a pike, a musket and other weapons, by Jacques de Gheyn II (Antwerp 1565-1629 The Hague).
Ref. New Hollstein (Jacques de Gheyn II) 340-457.