16 Ancient Books. 



6. BALLESTAS MOSQUETES Y ARCABUCES. Pablo del Fucar. 

 A book on sporting firearms, cited by bibliographers, 

 but not generally known. (Spanish.) Naples, 1535. 



7. ISTRUZIONE DEI BOMBARDIER!. 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. QUESITI ET INVENTIONI DIVERSE. Nicolas 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 VIII., 

 King of England. See Journal des Armes Speciales, 

 June, 1845. 



9. TRATTATO BELLA CACCIA. Dominica 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. Home, 1548. 4to. 



10. ORDONNANCE. A Royal Edict forbidding the taking 

 of game or its sale or purchase. Paris, 1549. Small 

 8vo, 8 pp. 



11. SCLOPETORUM SIVE ARCHIBUSORUM VuLNERIBUS. 



Alfonso Ferro. A treatise on the wounds caused by 

 firearms, and one of the earliest on the subject. 

 Rome, 1552. 



12. ORDONNANCES. Edicts of Henry II. of France respect- 

 ing sporting and forest rights. Paris, 1554. Small 

 8vo. 



13. MODO DI FER DIVERSE SORTE DI FUOCHI ARTIFICIALE. 

 An Italian sixteenth-century MS. (codice della Maglia- 

 bechiauia 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. 



