CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



TECHNICAL BOOKS AND THE WRITERS OF THEM, WITH 

 SOME PARTICULARS OF FIREARMS INVENTIONS, THE 







HISTORY OF GUNMAKING ON THE CONTINENT OF 

 EUROPE, IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES 

 OF AMERICA, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRACTICE 

 AND ART OF SHOOTING ON THE WING . . . i 



PART I. 

 ANCIENT BOOKS (14721850). 



BOOKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1600 15 



SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS 23 



SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS 24 



EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS . . . .42 

 FOREIGN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS .... 50 

 BOOKS PUBLISHED l8oO 1850, IN ENGLISH . . .58 



FRENCH . . . .71 



,, GERMAN . . . 75 



ITALIAN . . 79 



SPANISH 80 



