[ENGRAVINGS] - Lot 403

Lot 403
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[ENGRAVINGS] - Lot 403
[ENGRAVINGS] Album containing 60 engravings of Reitres and Lansquenets (German soldiers of the 16th century) including a suite by Parrocel. Engravings pasted on soft papers, some of them cut with the line. We note a suite of 19/20 etchings of uniforms by Parrocel engraved by J.G. Will (numbered in the plate). In a schoolboy type A4 notebook, ½ black basane, spine broken. In the state. Lansquenets were mercenaries, most often from the German-speaking states, operating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century. They served in most European armies of the time and gained a great reputation in the first half of the 16th century for their efficiency but also their brutality. The reitres (from the German Reiter, literally "horseman") are a light cavalry of Germanic origin that appeared in the 1540s. This type of cavalry appeared following the invention of the spinning wheel gun, which allowed for shooting from the saddle and the abandonment of the lance.
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