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190. ART OF GUNNERY. Nathaniel Nye. This treatise is 

 composed for the help of all such gunners and others 

 that have charge of Artillery, and are not well versed 

 in arithmetick and geometry. Nye was master gunner 

 of the city of Worcester ; he gives in his treatise an 

 account of the firearms made at Bromsgrove, of testing 

 coulverines at Deriton, and an illustrated description 

 of a powder tester, very different to the common 

 eprouvette. Also treats of the manufacture of gun- 

 powder and nitre and of artificial fireworks. W. Leak, 

 London, 1647, 1648, 1670. 8vo, plates. 



1 91. VESTIBULUM PYROBOLIA, SIVE COMPENDIUM ARTILLERLE. 

 Sigismund Kestner. The author of this treatise on the 

 elements of gunnery was an officer in the Danish 

 Artillery. (Latin.) Frankfort, 1671-9. Folio. 



192. DELICL*: CRANACHIAN^;. Ulrich von Cranach. A 

 description of unique war engines, weapons and 

 devices the invention of the author. (Latin.) Ham- 

 burg, 1672. Folio. 



193. HOLLANDTSCKE BuRGERY in ruste . . . vervat in een 

 Schuyt-Praetjen tusschen een Domine Politick Militair 

 en Borger. A political rather than a military treatise. 

 Amsterdam, 1672. 4to. 



194. MILITARY AND MARITIME DISCIPLINE. Captain Thos. 

 Venn. Book I., Tactics; IT., Military Architecture; 

 III., The Compleat Gunner. London, 1672. Folio. 



195. TRATTATO DELL' ARTIGLIERIA. Moretti. Venice, 1665. 

 Brescia, 1672. 



196. VENERIE ROYALE. An account of the hunting 

 establishment, etc., of the French Kings. Paris, 

 1672. 2 vols., 18mo. 



197. CACCIA DEL SCHIOPPO. Nicola Spadoni. A treatise 

 on sport with the arqubus, together with descriptions 

 of the various firearms used for sporting purposes and 

 directions for using them, Driven in 74 letters of 



