20 Ancient Books. 



30. UNTERRICHT. Kaspar Burger. How to shoot from 

 fortifications or in the field, the ordering of ordnance 

 and the loading of arms. (German.) Strassburg, 

 1591. 4to. 



31. INSTRUZZIONE DE BOMBARDIERI. Eugenio Gentillini. A 

 manual for gunners. (Italian.) Venice, 1592. 4to. 



32. MANNER How TO HANDLE 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 Smithe, 

 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. HAWKING, HUNTING, FOWLING, FISHING, with the true 

 measures of blowing. Witt 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 MACHINIIS. Justus LipSlUS. 



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. 



