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WIRT GERRARE
216 pages, 8vo,
London [1896]
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A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
GUNS AND SHOOTING.
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A Bibliography of
Guns and Shooting.
BEING A LIST OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ENGLISH AND
FOREIGN BOOKS RELATING TO FIREARMS AND THEIR USE,
AND TO THE COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURE OF
EXPLOSIVES ; WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
ON TECHNICAL BOOKS AND THE WRITERS
OF THEM, FIREARMS INVENTIONS AND
THE AISTORY OF GUNMAKING, AND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
ART OF WING SHOOTING.
Compiled and Revised to Date.
BY
WIRT GERRARE,
“THE GUNMAKER,” ‘‘ THE SPORTING GOODS REVIEW,” ETC., ETC.
FORMERLY EDITOR OF
TE
RONMBURGHE~ PRESS,
Fifteen, Victoria Street,
Westminster.
THIS WORK AND ALL THE PUBLICATIONS OF
THE ROXBURGHE PRESS ARE SUPPLIED TO
THE TRADE BY MESSRS. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,
HAMILTON, KENT, AND COMPANY, LIMITED,
AND CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH ANY
BOOKSELLER.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION.
TECHNICAL BOOKS AND THE WRITERS OF THEM, WITH
SOME PARTICULARS OF FIREARMS INVENTIONS, THE
HISTORY OF Gunmakine ON THE CONTINENT OF
EUROPE, IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRACTICE
AND ART OF SHOOTING ON THE WING
PART Tf:
ANCIENT BOOKS (1472—1850).
BOOKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1600
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY Books
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH Booxs
FOREIGN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS
BoOKS PUBLISHED 1800—1850, IN ENGLISH
- ‘ 7 FRENCH .
- i; sp GERMAN
Bf 5 is ITALIAN
7 mt SPANISH :
PAGE
vi Contents.
PART Hi.
MODERN BOOKS (1851—1894).
PAGE
ENGLISH Books :—
GUNS AND SHOOTING—GUNMAKING—GUN ‘TRADE—
Proor oF Guns _ . : : : 3 : oy
RIFLES—THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT—MOoNOGRAPHS
OF SPECIAL ARMS . : : : : ; 1 OY
GUNNERY—BALLISTICS—FIELD TRIALS—ART OF RIFLE
SHOOTING ; ; : ; : ; : Lor
CURRENT ENGLISH SPORTING BOoKs . : : . 106
SELECTED ENGLISH Books ON FOREIGN SPORT . eis
EUROPE . : : : : : ; 5 LIC
ASIA. : : ; : : : : LL
AFRICA . i : : : 3 7 L20
AMERICA . : ; E ; : : 5 Tie
AUSTRALASIA . : : : : A 5 PAS:
FRENCH Books :—
CURRENT WORKS ON SHOOTING . : : ; meg
Guns—GuN MANUFACTURE—GUNNERY ; : ae at)
GERMAN Books :—
GENERAL Works — MILITARY RIFLES—MUSKETRY—
GUN-MAKING—SPORTING : ; f : . 148
ITALIAN Books. ¢ : , : : : : . 155
SPANISH Books. : : = 7.
VARIOUS LANGUAGES . : f ; : . ; . 160
Contents. Vil
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APPENDICES,
PAGE
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPLOSIVES :—
BOOKS RELATING TO GUNPOWDER : : . . 163
MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES, ETC. . ; 2 : . 165
AMMUNITION, GUN WouNDS, ETC. : : F . 168
TECHNICAL PAPERS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES, AND NEWSPAPER
REFERENCES : ; : : ; : : ~ L790
SELECTED BooKs ON OLD ARMS, FoREIGN ARMS, ETC. . 178
CATALOGUES OF COLLECTIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS. Lon
BIBLIOGRAPHIES : SPORTING— MILITARY—ENCYCLOPDIAS
AND TECHNICAL DICTIONARIES . ‘ : : . 184
INDEX TO AUTHORS . ; é 4 : : : = LOI
SOME RECENT BOOKS AND OMISSIONS UP TO THE END OF
1895 ; : : . : : : : : nzO3
EN PROD wW C1 ON:
So many books have been written upon guns and shooting
that no apology is needed for publishing a guide to them.
Incomplete and inadequate as the compilation may be, it
is better than none at all; for, if practical utility be the
standard by which to measure the value of technical books,
few will rank higher in the estimation of students than do
bibliographies.
To the book collector this work will be probably of little
value: it was compiled for the use of a writer, not a book
buyer, and is both conceived and arranged with a view to
best serving the needs of the student.
Having departed from the customary method of arrange-
ment, a short explanation is desirable. The classification
of books according to the accident of the initial letter of the
name of the person writing them entails much additional
labour upon all who consult a bibliography in order to
identify a book, instead of for information concerning the
writer of it; the arrangement of books alphabetically by
titles is equally objectionable; and the method of Rumpf,
who classed the books in accordance with their size, is
worst of all. The classification by authors’ names is a
survival: in days when authors were few, men of erudition
were supposed to know at least the names of all, and
doubtless possessed some idea as to the dates at which the
various authors wrote. Now authors are numerous, and
the persons who most often consult a bibliography, what-
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ever their knowledge of the subject, are rarely well
acquainted with the names of the persons who have written
upon it. Moreover, in the history of firearms it is the date,
and in technical matters the fact, which is all-important,
the personality of the author being frequently of no moment
whatever. Learned persons may at once recognise Walter
in Valturius and Greaves in Gravius, but learned persons
are not likely to take so much interest in guns and shooting
as are class journalists, technical instructors, and gun-
makers—persons who are not learned in the dry-as-dust
sense. Another trouble with names, particularly foreign
names, is to recognise the important designation : Alenzo
Martinez del Espinar would, in accordance with the British
Museum rules of indexing, have to be sought in the
catalogue under D, the portion of the name least likely to
be remembered. With some double names, particularly
those of Austrian writers, it is customary to place the
Christian, or added, name after the family name—a process
of inversion which human powers of recollection often
perform automatically, and after a short time recall Alvarez
Perez as Perez Alvarez. In order to save the time of the
student, in the alphabetical list of authors some authors
have more than one entry, owing to the persistence with
which the added name surged up into memory, whilst the
correct index name could not be recollected.
Clearly, for the student of history classification by dates
is likely to be more convenient. If the student wishes to
learn what was known of firearms in the seventeenth
century, it is better to turn to a catalogue of the works
published at that time than to search through many lists
of unknown names, and often, upon choosing a writer,
consult the work only to find that it belongs to another
period. In the same way the language in which books are
written is of minor importance, and the size of the book
Introduction. 3
probably of no account whatever. Therefore, in the first
part of this bibliography, which is devoted to ancient books
—those published between 1450 and 1850—the order is
mainly chronological ; but the books of the last century are
subdivided into English and Foreign, and those of the first
half of the present century into English, French, German,
Italian, and Spanish.
In dealing with modern books a different classification is
advisable. To most it is of the first importance to learn
whether the book is written in English—if not, in what
language it is written; or to know what technical books
exist in any particular language. The subdivisions in this
second part therefore deal in the first place with books in
English—those relating to arms generally, to particular
descriptions of arms, to the technicalities of gun-making,
to the proof of guns, to ballistics or gunnery, to the art of
shooting with gun and rifle, and, lastly, to sport with the
gun at home and abroad. The same method of subdividing
is adhered to with French and German books, and, in a
minor degree, with those of Italy and Spain.
No bibliography of practical proportions could be produced
unless many works were purposely excluded. In this com-
pilation books will be found which at first sight will appear
to have no right of entry as long as others are excluded ;
but there are publications with misleading or too compre-
hensive titles which need to be specified in order that time
may not be wasted by referring to certain books owing to a
misconception of their nature. ‘The Rifle and how to use
it,’ by J. V. Bridgeman, is no indication that the work is a
farce, and originally performed at the Haymarket in 1859.
A docket to this effect will save the student time and the
librarian useless labour.
The exclusion extends in a complete manner to modern
military treatises dealing with ordnance, those of a general
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nature, and those for the most part devoted to the art of
war, fortification and military tactics; all such works are
enumerated in the military bibliographies, which may be
readily consulted. Many sporting works, in which some-
thing is said of firearms and shooting, have also had to be
passed by, and only a bare hundred out of the many recent
works devoted to sport abroad have been selected. Foreign
sporting works, of little technical interest, have also been
omitted; the reader needing them may advantageously
consult the more general bibliography of Souhait. Russian
sporting books have been excluded ; it must not, however,
be inferred that Russia has no literature of this description,
only that the typographical difficulties were considerable,
and the interest at present taken in Russian books of the
class infinitesimal. The bibliographical notices in “ Priroda
y Ohhota” and in the service periodicals will probably be
sufficient for the purposes of the few readers likely to require
to consult Russian sporting books.
The appendices contain a short bibliography of works
relating to explosives, such works having been selected as
likely to prove of the greatest service to the student of the
history of guns and shooting ; lists of the most noteworthy
technical papers read before learned societies ; and an index
to technical articles in various periodicals. The student
of history will find short references to works dealing with
the archeology of firearms, a list of catalogues of various
collections of arms, and also the titles of various biblio-
graphies, which may be of use in supplementing the one
now presented.
The introduction of firearms into Europe preceded the
invention of printing by nearly two centuries; but the
earliest manuscripts which treated of guns were subsequently
printed, or, like those of Cataneo, were lost. As is well
known, the first mention of the use of firearms in England,
Introduction. 5
contained in a contemporary record, is found in the inden-
ture of John Starlyng and Helmyng Leget, dated 1338, and
referring to the equipment of the King’s ships Bernard de la
Tour and Christofre de la Tour; but there are several who
wrote of their use in the past tense; as John Barbour, who
in 1375 stated of the Scotch that in 1327—
“Twa noweltys that dai thai saw
That forouth in Scotland had bene nane
Tymmris for helmys war the tane,
That thaim thoucht than off grete bewte
And alsua wondre for to se.
The tothyr crakys war off wer
That thai befor herd nevir er.”
The use of firearms seems to have been so widely known
in Chaucer’s time as to warrant that writer in drawing a
simile for great velocity from the flight of a shot, thus:
“ Swift as a pillet out of a gonne
When fire is in the pouder ronne.”
At least a score separate and distinct treatises on firearms,
gunpowder or matters incidental to their employment, had
been written and published on the Continent before an
English work on the subject was produced. To William
Bourne, who in 1587 published the “ Arte of Shootinge in
Great Ordnance” belongs the honour of first place; his
little book of 94 pages contained much that was original,
and served as a basis for several better known and more
pretentious works.
On the Continent the literature of the art of war has
always been more extensive than in England ; and military
science was one of the few subjects which could be treated
liberally. True, the works were dedicated to, and that is
to say, were not only under the patronage of, but were
practically supported by, some strong ruler; and the
6 Introduction.
strong ruler was ordinarily a successful warrior whose
achievements were lavishly extolled in the works. To
this class must be ascribed the book of Valturius and some
of the treatises written by Cataneo, Colliado, and Tartaglia.
The more practical among this class of writers gave instruc-
tions for the manufacture of cannon, gunpowder, projectiles
and military fireworks ; for in those days, when it was usual
to build a cannon at the place where it was to be used, and
to break it up after it had served in the one siege, the
science of gun construction was a necessary part of the
knowledge of a good commander. Another class of writer
was that to which W. Bourne belonged, the practical
gunner. Very numerous are the treatises on the art of
aiming cannon, and the instruction of the “perfect canoneer”
seems to have included always a careful grounding in
elementary arithmetic and plane geometry. Thus the
historian and philosopher on the one hand repeated the
lore of ancient military commanders, with the addition of
elementary facts drawn from recent experiences, and some-
times gave indications of the application of natural law
to the flight of projectiles; and on the other, master
gunners wrote practical instructions for the acquisition
of a difficult art and the study of elementary mathematics.
It was not until the epoch-marking book of Benjamin
Robins appeared, in 1742, that theoretical gunnery received
particular attention from the writers of technical books ;
from that date the works on artillery, instead of containing
rule-of-thumb descriptions, like those of Ufano, Saint
Julien, Gaya, and Siemenowicz, treated the principles of
gunnery more in the modern scientific manner.
With reference to the manufacture of small arms, not
so much was written, but more probably than was written
of any other industrial art. It is hardly to be expected
that any practical art can have a considerable literature ;
if
Introduction.
for what the skilled workman learns by practice he cannot
impart by verbal descriptions, even were he so minded.
When hand firearms came into general use the trade guilds
were already firmly established, and a separate guild, that
of gunmakers, was not possible in all centres, because the
existing guilds of the smiths and the carpenters divided the
work between them, and were jealous of any interference
with their privileges. As the “art and mystery” of
gunmaking was not recognised until the end of the
seventeenth century, and as arms were considered national
in the sense that their manufacture could be improved and
their form changed without incurring the enmity of manu-
facturing corporations, firearms developed quickly. Cataneo
wrote a treatise informing how the processes of manufacture
should be carried on, Bossi told how to improve the prin-
ciple of construction, and Jacquinet showed how the finished
weapon should be ornamented ; all before any Gunmakers’
Company was chartered in England, and when the Suhl
gunmakers were petitioning for incorporation. Not that
the inventor’s lot was any more happy in the seventeenth
century than in the nineteenth. Poor Bossi, who appears
to have been a genius and determined upon perfecting the
double-barrelled gun, started from his native Rome to try
his fortune in Flanders, even then a centre of the firearms
industry. His success there appears to have been poor,
for he subsequently tried Paris and other centres, and the
double gun remained an unappreciated invention.
Quite apart from these writers of treatises upon firearms
from the military standpoint, there remain to be con-
sidered the champions of the gun as a sporting weapon.
Although, as Sidney Smith states, the tenth Muse is
courted in this country more assiduously than in any other,
and although the earliest known manuscript in the English
language is upon a sporting topic, and the first ‘“ boke ”
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in our tongue likewise devoted to a princely pastime,
there are no English writers upon sport with firearms
until late in the seventeenth century. Pablo del Fucar
and Erasmo di Valvasone had both treated of the use of
firearms for sporting purposes in the sixteenth century ;
Tamariz de la Escaler and Vita Bonfadini had written
treatises on the art of wing shooting long before Blome
produced his great tome and taught how to creep within
range of jugging partridges and pot them unawares.
The “ Maison Rustique” was the precursor of the country
encyclopedia, of which Blome’s book was a fair specimen,
and a variety of which is still with us,—even to-day
“ British Rural Sports” is on the railway bookstalls,—but
these early compilations were far from being the thorough
works modern encyclopedias have become, now that each
article is contributed by an expert and constitutes not
seldom the best monograph extant on the subject treated.
The early cyclopedias were put together by the publisher’s
hack, and the student in search of original facts and reliable
information will do well to avoid them and choose some of
the less pretentious publications.
The poets have contributed not a few lines to firearms.
The epic on the chase was a favourite essay for Italian
writers. It was a congenial theme with the much-satirised
poet laureate Pye; and though his verse is far from
approaching in interest the better known “ Chace” of W.
Somerville, he is far from being the worst author of metrical
lines on shooting. Watts wrote facetiously, and Aldington
heavily and seriously; Francis Fawkes and K. McLemon
have not made their names immortal by their poems on
sport with the gun; but, notwithstanding their example
and lack of success, verse on the subject is still being
produced.
An important class of authors has been recruited from
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the ranks of the gunmakers. Bossi and Jacquinet in the
seventeenth, Page and Baker in the eighteenth, Brandeis,
Deane, Dougall, and three generations of Greeners in the
nineteenth centuries, have each and all had practical ex-
perience of the trade, and, taken collectively, may be said
to have contributed the greater part of the original matter
found in the technical literature of the firearms industry.
It is surprising, even to one acquainted with literary
plagiarism, to note the persistency with which information
on technical and sporting matters was annexed in the
“good old days,” and palmed off as first-hand authority.
The much-extolled Marolles, whose essay of 1784 was
translated into English and has been constantly quoted,
drew freely upon Vita Bonfadini and Tamariz de la Escaler,
less from Spadoni, Juan Mateos, and Martinez del Espinar,
leaving the original matter to be gathered by interviewing
some Parisian gunmakers and listening to the gossip of
sporting friends. Again, what a mine of wealth to the
writer on field sports Colonel P. Hawker’s ‘“ Instructions ”
has proved !
To another class belong the authors who, at the com-
mencement of this century, were so infatuated with Scottish
sports as to create a special literature. Very poor is the
quality of much that was produced in the passion of the
time. ‘ Unreal in fact and artificial in form” is likely to
be the verdict of posterity upon the productions of even the
best of the writers ; though to state it mow would probably
bring angry retorts from the sportsmen still living to
whom the craving for northern field sports was once no
imaginary desire.
Better, in the sense of being more practical, than Wilson
are the reminiscences of Scrope; better, in the sense of
being more natural, are Colquhoun of ‘ Moor and Loch”
and Lloyd of “ Northern Europe”; but worse, from the
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literary point of view, are many works even more recently
issued. In truth, the ancient fire appears to have almost
burnt out, and such light as is shed by the glow of dying
embers shows that the love of sport which animated such
writers as Scrope and Colquhoun no longer burns within
the breast of the modern sportsman-author. Scotch shooting
appears more as a fashion, deerstalking a function, and
grouse-shooting an exhibition in which the society man,
and often the society woman, is expected to share. It
would be wrong to attribute the change to the want of
skill in the writers; they do but reflect the tendency of
the times. Indications are not wanting to show that the
special craving, or that stimulus to action which only the
sport of shooting can appease, no longer occurs with the
frequency it did half a century ago. Shooting is now but a
means to an end: the end may be some social excitement
among a country house party, or it may be the collection
of a wild Thibetan camel for a natural history museum ;
but the prompting does not arise purely from the love of
sport,—as it once did, if our authors are to be believed. To
many, a life of adventure is a necessity; when the shooting
of large game is also a way of earning money, no wonder
men enter into the business as upon any other career ; but
to large game hunting for commercial purposes an end will
quickly come unless game is more efticiently protected than
was the American bison. The percentage of sportsmen
to whom the agony of a buffalo dropped to their rifle is
a sight to remember with pleasure, is small, and to the
majority of these a stalk in Chillingham Park would
probably be as pleasurable as an expedition to Central
Africa. On the other hand, there is a very large and
rapidly growing community for whom all things living in a
state of nature have a powerful attraction. To many men
it would afford more real enjoyment to get close to a herd
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of deer and observe their habits than to stalk within range
for a pot shot. These men, who would hunt with the camera,
and prefer to bring back a good negative showing large
game sporting in native haunts, rather than an elephant’s
tail or a tiger’s skin, have no sympathy with the sportsmen
whose only object is to kill, and who by dissociating
themselves from woodcraft and its attractions, have killed
their desire for sport, and require only to glut their craving
for blood or win approbation for their marksmanship.
Thus it seems probable that, for the purposes of sport as
for the purposes of war, the hand firearm is rapidly reaching
the close of its day. To those to whom the literature of
field sports written half a century ago is familiar, it will
seem impossible that the enthusiasm can have died out ; and
to those to whom the rifleman of the fifties was the hero
and saviour the hysterical writing of those times proclaimed
him, it would never occur that the man with the gun is to
be of quite secondary importance in the wars of the future.
It would be idle to argue that shooting will not long con-
tinue as a sport with some classes, and that the infantry
man will not again do excellent service in guerilla warfare ;
but the contention deduced from contemporary literature,
and not now advanced for the first time, is that the hand
firearm, both for purposes of sport and as a military
weapon, will not, in the early future, be regarded as pos-
sessing the importance attributed to it in the recent past.
The delight of sports afield will be more keenly enjoyed by
the man in closer harmony with nature than the modern
skilled wing shot; and, in the event of war occurring
between civilised nations, the machine gun and an endless
variety of automatically acting mechanical contrivances to
insure the defence of the party attacked will have superseded
the infantry man.
But firearms, both sporting and military, at present
12 Introduction.
engage the attention of the most clever among a generation
of able mechanical inventors; in the manufacture of guns
there is expended some of the best skilled labour the century
has produced, and whatever its future may prove, none can
deny the present achievements of a notable industry. To
the historian, firearms, of all weapons, will present master-
ful attraction; the part they have played in the world’s
history is too great ever to be ignored, even should the
part they have yet to play prove to be one of minor
importance.
WIRT GERRARE.
July 1st, 1894.
NOTE,
The author added an “Appendix” bringing the work up to the
end of 1895,
Ancient Books.
BOOKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1600.
1.—Re Muirrrarr. Robertus Valturius. In twelve books,
of which the tenth deals with artillery e¢ inventu
hominum varius reperitur. The illustrations to the
Paris edition of 1532 are more numerous than in the
Verona edition of 1483, and give exact representations
of bombards, hand cannon, etc., and show also the
manner in which they were used from ox waggons,
ships, fortifications, gun carriages, etc. An arrange-
ment of eight cannon, like the spokes of a verticaily
pivoted wheel, is shown; also the 7’urrzs Tormentaria,
et alia mirabilis machia. Verona, 1472 and 1483;
Paris, 1532. Folio.
2.—ENSALADA Y AVISOS DEL ArcuBuz. Alejo de Puelles.
A manuscript dating back to 1500, and cited by D. N.
Antonio y Huerta as existing in the library of the
Eseurial, (Spanish.)
3.—TratTrato DI ARTIGLIERA, A sixteenth-century manu-
seript (codice della Riccardiana). Is divided into
eight chapters, and has a vocabulary explaining such
words as “ gragnuola,” ‘balzo,” “cespi.” (Italian.)
Venice (?). 1529-39.
4.._NEUE UND BEWERKE Recepr. Fisch und Vogel zu
fahen. The contents of this book “of all manner of
recipes for taking birds, beasts and fishes,” are not
known to the compiler. (German.) 1530. In 8vo.
5.—Orpnune, Nahmen und Zahl aller Biichsen. v.
Preuss. A list of military troops, arms, and a classi-
fication of ordnance. (German.) Strasburg, 1530.
15
16 Ancient Books.
6.—Bauuestas Mosquetrrs y Arcasuces. Pablo del Fucar.
A book on sporting firearms, cited by bibliographers,
but not generally known. (Spanish.) Naples, 1536.
7.—IsTRUZIONE DEI Bomparpiert. Gabrielo Busca. A
bibliographical rarity, contains “things useful to
know.” A soldiers’ handbook, frequently quoted ;
usually appeared in small 4to. (Italian.) Venice,
1545, 1554, 1559. Carmagnola, 1584. Turin, 1598.
8.—Quesit1 ET InvENTIONI Diverse. Wicolas Tartaglia.
An incomplete treatise in Latin on the invention and
qualities of artillery; first appeared in Venice 1528,
according to Ayala. The 1546 edition, usually
accredited as the first, is dedicated to Carlo VIIL.,
King of England. See Jowrnal des Armes Speciales,
June, 1845.
9.—TRATTATO DELLA Caccia. Dominico Mazzo Bocca.
Book VIII. has a colophon “ which finishes the eighth
book of M. D. Bocca Mazzo, in which is narrated the
various and diverse things belonging to the chase.”
(Italian.) Cartolari Perosina. Rome, 1548. 4to.
10.—Orponnance. A Royal Edict forbidding the taking
of game or its sale or purchase. Paris, 1549. Small
8vo, 8 pp.
11.—ScLoPpETORUM sIVE ARCHIBUSORUM VULNERIBUS.
Alfonso Ferro. A treatise on the wounds caused by
firearms, and one of the earliest on the subject.
Rome, 1552.
12.—Orponnances. Edicts of Henry II. of France respect-
ing sporting and forest rights. Paris, 1554. Small
8vo.
13.—Mopo pr FER Diverse Sorte pi Fuocut ARTIFICIALE.
An Italian sixteenth-century MS. (codice della Maglia-
bechiania classe xix. n. 7), and makes mention of a
battery in Brescia in 1564. It is almost entirely
taken up with the preparation of saltpetre and its
use for military fireworks.
Books Written Prior to 1600. ily¢
14.—AVVERTAMENTI e esSamini intomo a quelle case che
richiedemo a un perfetto bombardiero. Girolamo
Cataneo. This book forms the fifth portion of the
author’s “Arte Militare.” T. Bezola, Brescia, 1567,
in 4to, Venetia, 1582; and A. Solicato, Vinegia, 1596,
4to.
15.—ARTE DI FARE LE ARME ETI Fuciu. G. Cataneo.
One of the first treatises on the art of making fire-
arms. The writer was the author of ‘“ Arte Militare,”
and is usually described as of Novara. This treatise
is quoted by Gassendi and Cotty, but is not known
to bibliographers, nor is a copy known to exist; it is
supposed to have been issued at Brescia about 1577.
16.—BucHSENMEISTERIE. A treatise on artillery, gunnery,
etc., attributed to the Emperor Maximilian I. 1569.
17.—Macuints Betiicis. Heronis mechanici. An edition
of Hero, by Francesco Baroccio, Venice. Another
work by Bernardino Baldo is more common. Its title
is ‘‘Heronis Chesibii Belopeeca, hoc est telifactiva,
ete.” The text in Latin and Greek. This book does
not contain any reference to firearms, although trans-
lators and annotators occasionally mention them, and.
attempts have been made to read various references
into the text. Venice, 1578.
18.—Discours sur wArrittertE. A MS. among the
archives of the town of Turin. Attributed to 8. A.
Duc Charles Emmanuel. Turin, 1580.
19.—PraticA MANUELE PER L’ArtIGLIERIA. Luigi Colliado.
A complete treatise on artillery, ancient and modern.
The history of the art of war and the engines used
therein. Pyrotechny and the making of artificial
fireworks, etc., etc. The author was a Spaniard, long
settled in Italy, and writing the Tuscan dialect.
Various editions of the work appeared; in some the
author’s name is printed Collado, (Italian.) Dus-
melli, Venice, 1586, folio. Bordoni e Locarni, Milan,
1606; Milan, F. Ghisolfi, 1641, in 4to.
2
18 Ancient Books.
20.—ARTE OF SHOOTING in GREAT ORDNANCE. Contayning
very necessary matters for all sortes of Seruitores
eyther by sea or by lande. Written by Welliam Bourne.
The first book in English dealing with gunnery. On
it, or on foreign works, the better known books of
Norton, Moore and Nye were based. Jt is dedicated
to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick. The intro-
ductory preface consists of 5 pp. in italics, then 94 pp.
text, in black letter, and 2 pp. table of contents.
London; printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas
Woodcocke, 1587.
21.—PatHeway or Minirary Practice, with a kalender
for the ymbattelinge of men. Barnabie Riche. A
tract on military exercises. Riche, London, 1587.
22.—MaccuHinE Diverse et ARTIFIZIORE. Captain Ramelli.
Paris, 1588.
23.— PArHwAYE oF MiLiraryE Practise. Three Bookes of
Collequies concerning the Art of Shooting in great
and small pieces of artillery, variable randges, ete.
This is a translation of the Italian of Nicolas Tartaglia,
by Cyprian Lucar, who also augmented the volume.
Whether or not this is the same “ Pathway” as that
published by Riche, the compiler has been unable to
discover. London, 1588, folio. Another edition, entitled
** Lucar Solace,” in four books, 1590, 4to.
24.—Bauuap. Discrybinge the vallure of our Englishe
archers and shotte that accompanied the Black Prince
of Portugal, their governor, into the fieldes on Twees-
dale, the 12 of August, with the welcome into Lyme
Streete, by Master Huah Offley. Jones, London, 1589.
25.—Booke or Honour anp Armes, wherein is discoursed
the causes of quarrel, and the nature of iniuries with
their repulces, with the meanes of satisfaction and
pacification. A treatise on duelling. Richard Jones,
London, 1589.
Books Written Prior to 1600. 19
26.—Muuirary Discrpuine. In Spanish, by D. S. de Lom-
domo, with one other booke, entitled THe OFFICE oF
THE SERGENT Matour. One of several like works on
the ordering of troops, etc. J. Woolf, London, 1589,
7
27.—CERTEN Discourses ConcERNING the great mistakinge
of the effectes of diverse sortes of wepons, and chiefly
of the musket, calyuer, and long bowe; and of the
use of archers. Compiled by Stir John Smith. This
is the gravest charge brought against the use of fire-
arms for military purposes, by a commander who had
much experience in Spain. Mr. Humphrey Barwick
took up the case on behalf of the musketeers and
bombardiers, and Sir John Smith subsequently modi-
fied his views, but remained the staunch champion of the
English long-bowmen. See the “ British Bowman” for
an abstract of the work, which in the original state is
very scarce. The MS. is in the Harleian Collection.
Rich. Jones, London, 1590.
28.—BrEEFE DiscoursE, concerning the force and effect of
all manuall weapons of fire, and the disability of the
long bowe or archery in respect of all others now in
use. With sundry probable reasons for the verifying
thereof ; the which I have doone of dutye towards my
soveraigne and country, and for the better satisfaction
of all such as are doubtfull of the same. Written by
Humfrey Barwick, gentleman, souldier, and captaine.
Et encor plus oultre. A continuation of the musket-
bow controversy led by Sir J. Smith, this little
manual of 42 pp. is a brief for firearms, and was soon
answered by Sir J. Smith, who admitted that firearms
had their use. See “The English Bowman,” 1810.
Rich. Olife, 1591, 4to, black letter, 42 pages, with a
folding woodcut manual,
29.—TraTADO DE ARTILLERIA. J. Ferrufino. A manu-
script in the National Library, Madrid. The work
of an Italian who left Milan in 1588, for an appoint-
ment as Director of Artillery. 1591, 1595.
20 Ancient Books.
30.—Unterricut. Kaspar Burger. How to shoot from
fortifications or in the field, the ordering of ordnance
and the loading of arms. (German.) Strassburg,
1591. Ato.
31.—INsTRUZZIONE DE BomparpiERtI. Hugenio Gentillini. A
manual for gunners. (Italian.) Venice, 1592. 4to.
32.._ManneER How to Hanpite WEAPONS SAFELY, as well
offensive as defensive. Giacomo de Gresse. A. trans-
lation of an inferior Italian treatise. J. Jagger,
London, 1593.
33.—CERTEN Instructions, observaconns and_ orders
militarie requisite for all cheeftaines, captaines, and
higher and lower men of charge. Sir John Sinithe,
Knight. Another treatise by the chief advocate for
the suppression of hand guns in the British Army.
Rich. Jones, London, 1594.
34,—ABSOLUTE SOLDIER, or Pollicee of Arms. Ponsonby,
London, 1595.
35,—Hawkine, Huntine, Fowiine, Fisurne, with the true
measures of blowing. . Will Gryndall. This book is
rarely found: whether or not it treats of shooting is
not known by the compiler. London, 1596, folio.
[Not in British Museum. |
36,—POLIORCETICON SIVE DE Macuinus. Justus Lipsius.
An account of the artillery of the ancients, in five
books, of which the fifth is the only one treating of
Tormentis, or firearms. The writer was born in 1547,
and, according to Scaliger, was venerated almost as a
deity in the Netherlands. This book is usually found
bound up with other books, commonly with De Cruce,
published the following year. (Latin.) Antwerp,
1596, folio, 263 pp. plates; included also in complete
edition of works, published in 1665.
37.—BUCHSENMEISTEREI. The art of gunnery, and direc-
tions for making guns, muskets, powder, projectiles,
and fireworks. (German.) Frankfort, 1597.
Books Written Prior to 1600. 21
38.—NomI DELL’ ARTIGLIERIA. An Italian sixteenth-century
MS. (codice della Riccardiana). The writer was on
board a Venetian vessel in 1597 at Lisbon preparing
for the invasion of England. Among other matters
dealt with are English usages in comparison with
those prevalent in Lisbon and among the Venetians.
39.—THEORIE AND Practis—E oF MoperN Wars, descoursed
in dialogewise. Ponsonby, London, 1597.
40.—Corona E Patma MiirareE pi ARTIGLIERA, Alex-
andro Capobianco. A treatise on artillery, measuring
instruments, mathematics, and gunnery. Bariletti,
Venice, 1598, 1602, 1618, 1647, fol.
41,—Dr1ana of George of Monte Mayor, done out of the
Spanish into English by Bartholomew Younge, gent.
Geo. Bysshop, London, 9 September, 1598.
42.—ArtTE oF GunnERY, by Zhos. Smythe, of Barwycke-
upon-Tweed, souldyer. London, 1599.
43.—BUCHSENMEISTEREI UND FEUERWERKEREI. Jrechtel. A
treatise on firearms and fireworks. Nurnberg, 1599.
8vo.
44,—Matson Rusti1que, or THE Countrig Farme, compiled
in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens and John
Liebault, doctors of physicke, and translated into
English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke.
Also A SHort CoLLEecTION OF THE HUNTING OF THE
Hart, WitpE Bore, Hare, Foxt, Gray Coniz, oF
Brrps AND FaAuLconrIg, the contents whereof are to
be seen in the page following. London, printed by
Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton, 1600.
Another edition Maison RustiquE, or THE CouNTREY
Farme, compiled in the French Tongue by Charles
Stevens and John Liebault, doctors of physicke, and
translated into English by Richard Surflet; now newly
reviewed, corrected, and augmented, with divers large
additions, out of the works of Serres, his Agriculture,
Vinet, his Maison Chapestre (French); Albyterio in
22
Ancient Books.
Spanish, Grilli in Italian, and other authors. And
the husbandrie of France, Italy, and Spaine, reconciled
and made to agree with ours here in England, by
Gervase Markham, the whole contents are in the page
following (see below). London, by Adam Islip for
John Bill, 1616. Illustrations. Folio.
This is the Frrst EDITION edited by Gervase Markham.
The following is a summary of the contents: ‘“ Whatsoever
can be required for the building, or good ordering, of a
Husbandman’s House, or Countrey Farme; as, namely, to
foresee the changes and alterations of Times; to know the
motions and powers of the Sunne and Moone, upon the things
about which Husbandry is occupied: as, to cure the sicke
labouring man, to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all sorts ;
to DRESSE, PLANT, OR MAKE GARDENS, AS WELL AS FOR THE
K1TCHIN, AND PHYSICKE USE, AS ALSO IN QUACTERS; WITH
MANY FAIRE AND CUNNING PORTRAITURES, TO MAKE COM-
PARTMENTS OF DIVERS FASHIONS IN EVERIE QUARTER : WITH
A LARGE DESCRIPTION OF THE HEARBE NICOTIANA (TOBACCO),
OR PETUM (with a woodcut of the plant), as also of the root
Mechoacan: TO PLANT, GRAFT, AND ORDER ORANGE-TREES,
Citron-trees, and such other strange trees: TO ORDER BEES:
TO MAKE CONSERVES: TO PRESERVE FRUITES, Flowers, Roots,
and Rindes: to make Honey and Wax: TO PLANT AND GRAFT
ALL SORTS OF FRUIT TREES: TO MAKE CYDER. PERRIE, DRINKE
OF CERVICES, AND OYLES: TO DISTIL WATERS AND OYLES, or
Quintessences, of whatsoever the Husbandman’s store and
encrease, with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distilling
of them: TO FEED AND PRESERVE SILKWORMS : to make and
maintaine Medow-groundes: FISHPONDS OF RUNNING OR
STANDING WATERS: TO TAKE FISHES: to measure and tyll
Corne-ground: TO BAKE BREAD: TO TRIMME VINES: TO
MAKE MEDICINABLE WINES ; WITH A VERRIE LARGE AND EX-
CELLENT DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE NATURE AND QUALITIE OF
WINE IN GENERAL: AND AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SPECIAL AND
PARTICULAR ONE, OF ALL SUCH WINES as grow in Gasconie,
Languedoc, Touraine, Orleans, Paris, and other countries of
France : to Plant Woods of Timber-trees and Under-growth ;
to make a warren; TO BREED HERONS : AND TO IMPARKE WILD
BEASTS. AS ALSO A LARGE DISCOURSE OF HUNTING THE
HarT, WILD BokE, HARE, Fox, GRAY CONIE, AND SUCH
LIKE: WITH THE ORDERING OF HAWKES, AND ALL SORTS OF
BiRDS, and lastly in the end thereof, is briefly shewed the
nature, manner of taking, and feeding of the NIGHTINGALE,
LINNET, GOLDFINCH, SISKIN, LARKE, AND OTHER SUCH SING-
ING MELODIOUS BIRDS.”
Siateenth-Century Manuscripts. 23
The original French edition appeared in 1566,
founded upon L’AGRICULTURE ET Matson Rustique
of the same author (Charles Estienne), published in
Paris in 1564, Lyons 1565, and Antwerp 1565, and
in Paris 1565. A similar book, Prapium Rusticum,
in Latin, appeared in 1554. Other editions of this
country encyclopedia are given by Souhait as follows
Paris, 1567, 1570, 1570 (Geneva imprint), 1572, 1573,
1574, 1576, 1578, 1583, 1586 (two editions), 1589,
1598 (three editions), 1612, 1620, and 1683. Rouen,
1598 (three editions), 1600, 1602 (three editions), 1608
(two editions), 1620 (two editions), 1624, 1625 (three
editions), 1629, 1632, 1641, 1646, 1647, 1655, 1656,
1658 (three editions), 1664, 1665, 1666 (three editions),
1668, 1674, 1676 (two editions), 1677, 1685, 1698
(two editions). Lyons, 1578, 1583, 1584, 1586 (two
editions), 1590, 1591, 1595, 1597, 1607, 1608, 1610,
1611, 1628, 1637 (two editions), 1645, 1650, 1653,
1654, 1655, 1659, 1667, 1680 (two editions), 1686,
1689, 1698, and 1702. Geneva, 1569. Montluel,
1572. Lunéville, 1577. Cologne, 1695; there was
also an edition (unidentified) in 1660. In Italian, as
L’ AGRICULTURA E CASA DI VILLA, it appeared at
Venice, 1581, 1591, 1668, 1677. ‘Turin, 1582, 1583,
1590, 1609, 1623. As BitcHER von DEM FELDBAW in
German, at Strassburg, 1580 and 1588. In Dutch as
Hor-StrepE EN Lanpt-auys. Dordrecht, 1612. The
numerous editions are accounted for by the publication
of an appendix, CHAssE Aux Lovups, almost annually.
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS.
45,—ArtituerigE. Graf Solms. A manuscript in the
Hesse-Darmstadt Ducal Library.
46.—Dve Trarti pt ARTIGLIERIA. Two volumes of manu-
script in the Parmense collection.
24 Ancient Books.
47.—IsTRUZIONE intorno al modo di preparare le Artiglierie
Militari. A manuscript formerly in the Royal Library,
Paris; probably destroyed.
48.—Sv’ Cannont. A manuscript in the Vatican collection
(389 art. 67).
49,—Manvuete. Carlo Giudotti da Mantova. A manual
for the bombardier, presumed to have been written
or compiled by the Commandant of Artillery of Lecce
(Loffredo Lecco). Twenty-three chapters. Vatican
MSS.
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS.
101.—ImrErATORUM Regum atque archiducum . . . quorum
Arma in Ambrosianz arces armamento conspiciuntur.
Jac. Schrenck. A very rare work on armour, with 129
full-length figures of knights in full suits, and useful
as a sidelight upon the arms of the period. A copy
is priced by Quaritch at £12 12s. Atnoponti, 1601.
102.—Maccnine. Achille Tarducci. A treatise on the
engines of war used against the Hungarians at Vaccia
in 1597, and in the Transylvanian Campaign of 1600.
Contains also comparisons of the weapons of the
ancients with those used in the seventeenth century.
(Italian.) Ciotti, Venice, 1601 and 1631.
103.—A SPEDIE WAY FOR THE WYNNINGE OF ANY BREACHE.
Bound up with a tract on the use of “Cole baules” for
“fyer” and “some other new and seruisable invensions
answerable to the tyme.” Short, London, 1602.
104.—Detia Caccta. Hrasmo di Valvasone. A poem in five
cantos, written in the sixteenth century, and probably
first published at Padova in 1593. The compiler’s
copy appears to have been printed at Venice in 1602,
for F. Bolzetta, of Padova. The title states that the
Seventeenth-Century Books. 25
text is “Ricovvetta et di molte stanze ampliata.
Con le annotationi di M. Olimpio Marcucci.” Several
plates, sporting firearms shown, also pictures of shoot-
ing with them at boar, deer, ete. 252 pp. text, 40 pp.
notes, six plates. Venice, 1602.
105.—Isrruzztont pe Bomparprert. Orlandi. Cited by
Ayala. Rome, 1602. Ato.
106.—Trarrato pit Scienza D’ArME. Cornelius Agrippa.
Cited by Rumpf. Venice, 1604.
107.—ELEMENS DE L’ARTILLERIE. Flurance Rivault. Watts
says this is a rare and curious work. It is mentioned
by Rumpf, but does not appear in the catalogues of
the chief general or technical libraries. Paris, 1605.
108.—APPAREIL DES Macuines DE GUERRE. (Also known
as “Forge de Vulcain.”) Ch. de Saint Julien. A
curious treatise in which is specified a variety of war-
like engines and arms. It treats also of the materials
used, and the construction of the machines, their
appearance, and the effects caused by their proper use.
Guill. de Voys. The Hague, 1606. 8vo.
109.—BRIEFVE INSTRUCTION SUR LE FAICT DE L’ARTILLERIE
pE France. Daniel Davelcourt. An account of French
cannon and a treatise on gunnery. Paris, 2nd edition,
1608. 8vo.
110.—L’arRcENCAL DE LA MILICE FRANCAISE. “ Fumée.”
Paris, 1608.
111.—Mantement p’Armes; d’arquebuses, mousquets et
piques, en conformité du Prince Maurice d’Orange.
Jacob de Gheyn. The Hague, 1608. Folio.
112.—ArcenaL ET Macasin DE L’ARTILLERIE. D. Davel-
court. Contains also the “ Brieve Instruction,” which
see ante. Paris, 1610. 8vo.
113.—Istruttione p’ArtietreR!. Dayalo Santo Ayello.
The instructions give the practice usual in the kingdom
of Sicily at the time. Palermo, 1610, 8vo; another
edition in 4to in 1689.
26 Ancient Books.
114.—REcHERCHES ET CONSIDERATIONS SUR LE FAICT DE
L'ARTILLERIE. D. Davelcourt. Also the “ Epitome
ou abrégée, contenant maximes, etc.” A rare treatise
on the artillery of the French. Napoleon I. is said
to have sought in vain for a copy. An incomplete
copy sold at the Laing sale for £7 10s. Quaritch
prices a copy at £5 5s. Paris, 1610, 1619, five vols.,
sometimes bound as one. 12mo.
115.—Nosie ARTE oF VENERIE. Paris, 1611. 4to.
116.—Artitierta. Diego Ufano. This treatise on the
artillery used in Flanders has been extensively copied,
and served as a basis for the works of Hancelet,
Siemenowicz, Saint Remy, and some English writers.
The first edition appears to have been published at
Brussels in 1612 or 1613, a second, also in Spanish, at
Brussels in 1617. In 1614 French and German edi-
tions were published at Frankfort by Theo. de Bry, also
Zutphen, 1621, and Rouen, 1628. It was Englished
by Eldred (q.v.), and in 1643 a Polish translation by
J. Deckaw was published at Lesznie. Usually folio in
three parts, about 179 pp. .
117.—BucHSENMEISTERE!. Zuebler. Geometrical gunnery :
a manual of instruction for Artillerymen. Zurich,
1614. 4to.
118.—BUucHSENMEISTEREI-CompeNDIUM. A. cyclopedia of
gunnery. Strasburg, 1616. 8vo.
119.—Lonpon’s ARTILLERY. &. NViccols.
120.—RECHERCHES ET CONSIDERATIONS SUR LE FAICT DE
LARTILLERIE. D. Davelcourt. A work on experi-
mental and theoretical gunnery. Paris, 1617. In 8vo.
121.—Arcuiten-Kriecs Kunst. V. Wallhausen. The
Art of War (German). Hanau, 1617. Folio.
122.—Caccta. Poema heroico. Alessandro Gatti. An
epic poem onthechase. Italian blank verse. Printed
in London. (?) Imprint, Gio Billio, London, 1619. 8vo.
Seventeenth-Century Books. 27
123.—Gerscnuss uND FeverwerK. Theo. de Bry. Given by
Rumpf; is probably a later edition of Ufano. J.
supra, anno 1613. Frankfort, 1619.
124.—DissertaTio DE Bomparnpis. Besoldi, 1620. Given
by Rumpf.
125.—Krircs uND ARCHILLEN Kunst. Ruscelli. A trans-
lation of ‘‘ Percetti della Militia Moderna,” Part I.
(German.) Frankfort, 1620.
126.--WAFFENHANDLUNG DER MUSKETEN UND PIKEN.
Tsselburg. A book of drill and military practice.
(German.) Nurnberg, 1620. 4to.
127.—WaFFENHANDLUNG VON DEN RowreEN, MUSKETEN,
UND SpressEN. Jacob de Gheyn. See No. 111, supra.
128.—ArticiuigRiA. Pietro Sardi. Italian romance,
divided into three books. G. Guerrigli, Venice, 1621.
Folio.
128.—Enpits, ETc., AUGMENTES DES ORDONNANCES DU Rot
Henri, SUR LE Port p’ArQquEBUSES. This compilation
was made by If. Durand. Cramoisy, Paris, 1621. In
8vo.
130.—OptomacuiaA. A treatise on the manner of using
arms. (Spanish.) Siena, 1621.
131.—Traite D’ARTILLERIE. Diego Ufano. A translation
from the Spanish, published at Zutphen, 1621, Rouen,
1628, and in German, at Frankfort,in 1621. V. supra,
anno 1613.
132.—Essay DES MrRVEILLES DE Nature. (Hicenne Binet)
René Francois. A cyciopedia of little interest ; has a
few pages on arms and sports. (French.) Twelve
editions published, 1621—1726. Osmont, Rouen, 1622.
4to.
133.—DiscouRS VON DER ARTILLERIE. Schwachii. Is
said to be a copy of Ufano. Dresden, 1624. 4to
28 Ancien: Books.
134.—BREVE TRATTATO D’ALCUNE INVENTIONI CHE SONO
STATE FATTE PER RINFORZARE E RADDOPPIARE EL TIRI
DEGLI ARCHIBUIGI E MOSCHETTI. Giulano Bossi. This
book, which apparently existed in manuscript in 1616,
is one of the most important dealing with ancient
gunmaking, giving as it does minute particulars, more
especially with reference to double guns. Bossi was
an Italian inventor, who resided for some years in the
Netherlands, and is believed to have made gun-making
his profession. An author of several pamphlets treating
of arms. (Italian.) G. Verdussen. Antwerp, 1625.
In 12mo.
135.—Krirecs Munitions uND ARTILLERIE BucH. Ammon.
Frankfort, 1625.
136.—ORDONNANCE ET Puaccart . . . sur le port des
Arquebuzes. (French.) Bruxelles, 1625.
137.—Souprers’ AccipDENCE. Gervase Markham. An intro-
duction to military discipline, for Infantrie, Foote
Bandes, Cavalry, and Horse Troopes. Bellamy,
London, 1625. 4to, 66 pp.
138.—Trarrato Crnecetico. Fr. Birago. Fowirer. Containing the art of
taking fowl with nets, etc. JIllustrated. London,
1697. 18mo.
237.—BESCHREIBUNG . . . BUCHSENMEISTERIE. George
Schreiber. A treatise on a new method of gunnery.
(German.) Breslau, no date. 4to.
238.—GRUNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON DER ARTILLERIE.
Coehorn. A translation from the Dutch into German.
Hamburg, 1699.
239.—Nova ARTIGLERIA VENETA IcTIBUS PROPELLENS. S.
Alberghetti. A posthumous work published in 1699
42 Ancient Books.
and 1703 in Latin and in Italian at Venice. Codice
della Marciana (Class VII., No. DXXII.). “ Sigis-
mundus Alb., nove artillerie inventor et ex Anglia
redux, obiit MDCCII.”
240.—PerFerro BoMBARDIERO Y ARTILLERO. Sebas. Ferd.
de Medrano. Bruxelles, 1699. 8vo.
241.—Tratrato D’ARTIGLIERIA. Treats also of sword blades
and the barrels of muskets. Is an Italian MS. of the
17th century (codice della Magliabechiania, classe IX.,
No. 80).
242.—UNTERRICHT VON DER ARTILLERIE. Peirander.
Hamburg, 1699.
243.—INTORNO AL FONDERE DELLE ARTIGLIERIE. Leonardo
da Vinci. A MS. consisting of 108 pp. in 8vo, said to
have some illustrations on the margins by the author’s
hand. Much unintelligible according to Ayala.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS.
251.—ScHooL oF RECREATION, or a Guide to the Most
Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing,
Fireworks, Military Discipline, the Science of Defence,
Hawking, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cock-
fighting, Fowling, ete. London, 1710, 1732. 12mo.
252.—FisHinc anD Huntine: The Art and Cunning of
Hunting the Hart, Stag, Hare, Fox, Otter, Wild Goat,
ete., the Art of Fishing and sundry curious baits, viz.,
Worms, Flies, Pastes, ete. 7. Bazley. London, 1720.
8vo, pamphlet.
253.—Country GENTLEMAN’s VADE Mercum. Jacob Giles.
A compilation by a well-known “bookmaker.” London,
1717, 12mo.
Eighteenth-Century English Books. 43
254.—CompLetE SporrsmAn.—Another compilation by J.
Giles, who also published in 1740 a compilation of game
laws, and list of statutes relative to game licences, etc.
The “ Complete Sportsman” appeared in 1718.
255.—Porm. PueERyYPLeEGtA, or the Art of Shooting Flying.
Abraham Markland, D. De Prebendary of Westminster.
London, 1727, 4to.
256.—Great Art or ArTILLERY. Casimir Simienowicz.
25
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‘
Translated from the French by G. 8. Shelvock. The
translator states that the book in the original or any
Latin edition could not be procured, so he was forced
to translate from the French edition (Amsterdam,
1661), which he complains “is now grown very obscure
and obsolete ... it is the most carelessly printed
book I ever saw.” It was compared with a German
edition (Frankfort, 1676). This book was for long the
standard work on artillery. It contains: Book I.,
xiil. ch. on the calibre; Book II., xxxii. ch. concerning
pyrotechnics ; Book IIT., x. ch. on rockets ; es EVG
pt. 1, iv. ch. on Fire elobes or balls, pt. 2, xix. ch.
Military fire-balls ; Book V., Warlike Firearms, 2
parts, xiii, and x. ch. Tonson, London, 1729. Folio,
404 pp., 23 copper plates. See No. 171.
.—TREATISE ON GuNNERY. John Gray, F.R.S., of
Carthagena. London, 1731, 1781. 8vo.
258.—New Principirs of Gunnery. Containing the
determination of the force of gunpowder, and an
investigation of the difference in the resisting power
of the air to swift and slow motions. Benjamin
Robins, F.RS. This book is epoch - making, and
probably no book dealing with firearms is better
known or so frequently quoted; its principles were
accepted generally, and the work was recognised as
the standard authority for many years. Nourse,
London, 1742. 8vo, pp. lvii, 95, 1 plate.
44 Ancient Books.
259.—CountRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, OR SPORTSMAN’S
Dictionary. London, 2 vols. 4to, 1744; in 12mo, 1755 ;
an edition in 8vo, Dublin, 1756.
260.—Licur To THE ART OF GUNNERY; or Sea Gunner's
Companion, . . . with the most necessary conclu-
sions for the Practice of Gunnery, either in land or sea
service. Captain Thomas Binning, mariner. London,
1744. Small 4to, 114 pp., 2 plates, tables, diagrams.
261.—DocrrinE oF Prosectites: Demonstrated and
applied to the most useful problems in practical
gunnery. William Starrat. Published by subscription
and dedicated to the Fellows of Trinity College,
Dublin. Has list of subscribers. Dublin, 1746. 8vo,
pp. xii, 176, 4 plates.
262.—ATTACK AND DEFENCE OF ForTIFIED Piacrs. John
Muller. The first of a number of technical books
by a “Professor of Artillery and Fortification.”
London, 1747. 8vo, 3 parts.
263—PracticaAL Sea-Gunner’s Companion. An _intro-
duction to the Art of Gunnery. Welliam Mountain,
F.R.S. Might be more aptly named a Treatise on
Arithmetic and Elementary Mathematics. Is based
on Povey and Binning. Rumpf gives date as 1747.
London, 1747, 1750, 1781; 127 pp. The 1781 edition
has addenda, 7 pp., plates and figures.
264.—Porm. Compieat Marksman. Hon. R. Coote. On
the art of shooting flying. London, 1755. 8vo.
965.—TREATISE ON THE PRACTICAL Part OF FORTIFICA-
TION, John Muller. A work written ‘for the use of
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich.” London, 1755,
8vo, 28 copper plates.
266.—Easy Inrropuction to Practical Gunnery, or the
Art of Engineering. Francis Holliday. A work on
Eighteenth-Century English Books. 45
ballistics, by a Professor of Mathematics, the author
of numerous works in Arithmetic, Geometry, ete.
Innys and Richardson, London, 1756. 8vo, xv and
175 pp., plates.
267.—TREATISE ON ARTILLERY. John Muller. Contains :
1, General construction of brass and iron guns used
by the sea and land forces, and of their carriages ; 2,
General construction of mortars, howitzers, their beds
and earriages; 3, The dimensions of all kinds of
carriages used in the artillery; 4, The exercise of the
regiment abroad; 5, March and encampment, ammu-
nition stores and horses; 6, The necessary laboratory
work. To which is prefixed a theory of powder applied
to firearms. Appeared in 1757. Afterwards published
with an appendix or supplement. London, 1757,
1768. 8vo.
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