36 Ancient Books. 



instruction, necessary to the making of a valiant and 

 expert shot with the gun. G. Longhi, Bologna, 1673. 

 Small 12mo, 93 pp., and one sheet of illustrations of 

 guns and gun parts. Rare. 



198. GENERAL USE AND EFFECT OF GUNNES. Robert 

 Anderson. Contains particulars of experiments and 

 tables of projection, exactly calculated by T. Streete. 

 2 parts. London, 1674. 4 to. See also infra, Nos. 

 226, 229, 232. 



199. TKAITE DBS ARMES, DBS MACHINES DE GUERRE. 

 Louis de Gaya. A short account of the arms used in 

 the French Army, together with a short history of 

 other arms, French, Roman, etc. The author gives 

 precise particulars as to the size of muskets, carbines, 

 etc., the number of rifled arms to others, qualities of 

 matchlocks and firelocks ; and states that he saw an 

 air-gun tried in France. The book has 20 plates of 

 illustrations. S. Cramorsey, Paris, 1678, pp. 1-4 and 

 1-172, in 12mo. For an English edition see infra, 

 205. 



200. ARCHERIE REVW'D, or the Bow-Man's Excellence. 

 An heroick poem. Robert Shotterel and Thos. Durfey. 

 Exhorting all brave spirits to the banishment of vice, 

 by the use of so noble and healthful an exercise. 



"Let Gunners with our Archers now joyn hands. 



Our Frontiers guarded well with Guns and Bows, 

 Whose strong contracted power would dare alarms, 

 And conquest win, though Hell rose up in Arms ." 



Roycroft. London, 1676. 



201. HISTORY OF BIRDS. F. Willoghbceus. A book on 

 natural history; but there is a rare edition of 1678, 

 having as an appendix a treatise on the " Arts of 

 fowling, falconry, and ordering of fishing birds," by 

 John Ray. Several editions in Dutch were published 

 at Amsterdam. The original treatise is in Latin, the 

 edition of 1678 in English. 



