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254. COMPLETE SPORTSMAN. Another compilation by J. 

 Giles, who also published in 1740 a compilation of game 

 laws, and list of statutes relative to game licences, etc. 

 The " Complete Sportsman " appeared in 1718. 



255. POEM. PLERYPLEGIA, or the Art of Shooting Flying. 

 Abraham Markland, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster. 

 London, 1727, 4to. 



256. GREAT ART OF ARTILLERY. Casimir Simienowicz. 

 Translated from the French by G. S. Shelvock. The 

 translator states that the book in the original or any 

 Latin edition could not be procured, so he was forced 

 to translate from the French edition (Amsterdam, 

 1661), which he complains "is now grown very obscure 

 and obsolete ... it is the most carelessly printed 

 book I ever saw." It was compared with a German 

 edition (Frankfort, 1676). This book was for long the 

 standard work on artillery. It contains : Book I., 

 xiii. ch. on the calibre; Book II., xxxii. ch. concerning 

 pyrotechnics; Book III., x. ch. on rockets; Book IV., 

 pt. 1, iv. ch. on Fire globes or balls, pt. 2, xix. ch. 

 Military fire-balls ; Book V., Warlike Firearms, 2 

 parts, xiii. and x. ch. Tonson, London, 1729. Folio, 

 404 pp., 23 copper plates. See No. 171. 



257. TREATISE ON GUNNERY. John G-rai/, F.R.S., of 

 Carthagena. London, 1731, 1781. Svo. 



258. NEW PRINCIPLES OF GUNNERY. Containing the 

 determination of the force of gunpowder, and an 

 investigation of the difference in the resisting power 

 of the air to swift and slow motions. Benjamin 

 Robins, F.R.S. This book is epoch - making, and 

 probably no book dealing with firearms is better 

 known or so frequently quoted ; its principles were 

 accepted generally, and the work was recognised as 

 the standard authority for many years. Nourse, 

 London, 1742. Svo, pp. Ivii, 95, 1 plate. 



