- 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. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. Contents : VOLUME I : PART ONE, PRELIMINARY. Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Warfare and the Age of Printing: General Introduction, Louis Ph. Sloos; 2. The Ministry of Defence's Treasury of Books: 10,000 Volumes from the 16th to the 18 Century: Military Libraries in the Netherlands (1600-1940) and their Historical Legecy, Louis Ph. Sloos; 2.1. Books Found I Soldier's Abandoned Knapsacks. PART I ; Settings; 2.2. The Library at the Military Engeneers and Fencing School at the University of Leyden, 1600; 2.3. Historic Professional Literature for Military Librarians; 2.4. The First Corps Libraries; 2.5. Men of the World; 2.6. The Development of the Military Library System 1795-1821; 2.7. Success and Formalisation of the Corps Libraries, 1821-1826; PART II :The Army Museum's Book Collection. 2.8. The Ministry of Defence's Historical Book Collection in the Army Museum; 2.9. The historical Library of the Ministry of Defence; 2.10. The Royal Family's Military Literature Collection; 2.11. The Staff School Library; 2.12. The Historical Book Collections of the Ministry of Defence that Belong to the Royal Netherlands Army's Collection, Carry an A-Status and Come Under the Army Museum's Control; PART III : The Ministry of Defence's Historical Collection at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy, the Netherlands Institute of Military History, the Royal Netherlands Naval Academy and Bronbeek Museum. 2.13. The royal Netherlands Military Academy L:ibrary in Breda; 2.14. The Netherlands Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defence in The Hague; 2.15. The Royal Netherlands Naval Academy Library in Den Helder; 2.16. The Library of the colonial Military Nursing Home, Bronbeek/Bronbeek Museum in Arnhem; 3. The Army of the Dutch Republic and the Military Revolutions, Olaf van Nimwegen. 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Landsknechts: the Origins of the Dutch Army (Sixteenth Century); 3.3. The Dutch Army (Late Sixteenth Century-First Half of the Seventeenth Century); 3.4. The Dutch Standing Army (Second Half of the Seventeenth Century-First Half of the Eighteenth Century); 3.5. The Dutch Army in Decline (Second Half of the Eighteenth Century); 3.6. Conclusion; 4. Introduction to the Catalogue. 4.1. Criteria for Inclusion; 4.2. Editions, Print Runs, Publications and States; 4.3. Bibliographic Unit; 4.4. Umbrella and Part Descriptions; 4.5. Series; 4.6. Structure of the Catalogue Description; 4.7. The Formal Description; 4.8. Description of Material; 4.9. Literature; 4.10. Abbreviations; 4.11 Concordance of Shelf-Marks. PART TWO, CATALOGUE, VOLUMES I-IV. 1. Military Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, General Works; 2. Army Organisations, Military Law; 3. Art of War, Strategy, General tactics, Defence, Offence, etc.; 4. Military Periodicals; 5. Infantry (Including Fencing); 6. Cavalry (Including Equitation and Veterinary Science); 7. Artillery (Including Equipment, Gunpowder, Pyrotechnics, etc.); 8. Fortification (including engineering); Colophon. VOLUME II. 9. Navy (Including VOC, Maritime Works, Navigation, Ship-Building, etc.); 10. Works on Several Armed Forces; 11. Civic guards, Citizen Guards and Militia; 12. Military History, Military Biograohy; 13. Micellaneous Military Works; 14. Mathematics, Physics, Natural History, Architecture and Technology; Colophon. VOLUME III. 15. Geography, Countries, Topography, Ethnography (Including Atlases); 16. Dutch history, Biography (Including Periodical Documents); 17. Foreign History, Biography (Including Ancient and Classical History and Periodical Documents); 18. Political Science and (War) Law; 19. Philosophy, Morals, Theology; 20. Linguistics, Literature; 21. Arts; 22. General Encyclopaedias etc.; 23. Bibliography, Library Catalogue, etc.; 24. Periodicals (Including Proceedings of Learned Societies); Colophon; VOLUME IV. Index of (Corporate) Authors, Editors, Compilers, TranslatorsIndex of Anonymous Titles; Index of Publishers, Printers, Engravers and Booksellers; Index of Place Names; Colophon