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contents insignificant. The plates deserve no praise. 

 The first edition is worth =6 if clean, subsequent 

 editions much less. See also " The Complete Sports- 

 man." Richard Blome, London, 1686, folio; and later 

 under various titles. 



217. DISCOURSE CONCERNING GRAVITY, and its property, 

 its influence on Gunnery. See Transactions Philo- 

 sophical Society Abridgments, vol. iii., p. 261. 



218. -EXPERIMENTS IN SHOOTING. Nicholas Papin. A 

 contribution to the Transactions of the Philosophical 

 Society. See their Abridgments, vol. iii., p. 273. 

 London, 1686. 



219. ORDONNANCE DU ROY. Concerning the proofs of 

 powder. (French.) Versailles, 1686. 



220. EXPERIMENT FOR IMPROVING THE ART OF GUNNERY. 

 Sir R. Moray (or Murray). See Transactions of the 

 Philosophical Society Abridgments, 1688. 



221. TRAITE DE VENERIE. D'Yauville. Premier Veneur, 

 et ancient Commandant de la Venerie du Roi. The 

 royal hunts described, nothing to do with shooting. 

 Paris, de 1'Imprimerie Royale, 1688, in 4to, 12 and 

 415 pages, and 41 engraved sheets of music. Reprinted 

 in 1859 by Journal des Chasseurs. 



222. CHARACTER OF A GOOD COMMANDER, with an eulogium 

 upon the London Artillery, and an encomium on the 

 Duke of Brandenburgh. Thos. Plunket. London, 

 1689, 4to. 



223. COMPLETE SPORTSMAN, OR COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S 

 RECREATION. Thomas Fairfax. Contains the whole 

 Arts of BREEDING AND MANAGING GAME COCKS, with 

 the BEST METHOD OF FIGHTING THEM, of Rearing and 

 Backing Colts, of Managing Race Horses, Hunters, 

 &c., of HORSE-RACING, of BOWLING, of HARE HUNTING, 

 of Fox HUNTING, of Buck Hunting, of Otter Hunting, 



