24 Ancient Books. 



47. ISTRUZIONE intorno al modo di preparare le Artiglierie 

 Militari. A manuscript formerly in the Royal Library, 

 Paris; probably destroyed. 



48. Su' CANNONI. A manuscript in the Vatican collection 

 (389 art. 67). 



49. MANUELE. Carlo Giudotti da Mantova. A manual 

 for the bombardier, presumed to have been written 

 or compiled by the Commandant of Artillery of Lecce 

 (Loftredo Lecco). Twenty-three chapters. Vatican 



MSS. 



SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS. 



101. IMPERATORUM Regum atque archiducum . . . quorum 

 Arma in Ambrosianse 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. yEnoponti, 1601. 



102. MACCHINE. 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 BEEACHE. 

 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. BELLA CACCIA. Erasmo di Yalvasone. 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 



