> ei AOGRAPIAY 3 1761 04494 1060 EE WIRT GERRARE 216 pages, 8vo, London [1896] Presented to The Dibrary of the University of Toronto by Fort William Public Library A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GUNS AND SHOOTING. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from Microsoft Corporation Ar. Pb | 31B2 bh 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 BART, LE 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- 1 2 Introduction. RD Sie ON ANE be NN De 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 4 Introduction. TES IEE a a 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 ” 8 Introduction. 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 Introduction. ~) 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 10 Introduction. 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 Introduction. | 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 _ ‘ 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. 268.—ArtT oF SHootine Fryinc. 7. Page. oO uy <8) hy $ ® cS Acme Library Card Pocket LOWE-MARTIN CO. 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