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344. LETTRES SUE UNE ARBIE 1 FEU. Relates to a new 

 infantry arm, and adduces evidence to show th.it 

 musketry fire was not appreciated at its proper value. 

 Contains also particulars respecting a new pattern 

 Prussian rifle. Avignon, 1780. Svo. 



345. CHASSE AU FUSIL. Magne de Marolles. This book 

 is very frequently quoted by writers on firearms and 

 gunmaking. The author was born at Tourouvre 

 (Orne), France, and employed in the King's House- 

 hold. He died at Paris when about sixty years of age, 

 in the year 1792. The first edition of his book had 

 sis plates illustrating arms (1) the marks of barrel- 

 makers ; and (2) plans. Tables of contents, xvi and 

 582 pp. The 1836 edition has ten plates, xvi and 

 494 pp. Paris, 1788, 1836. 



346. ANFANGS GRUNDE DER GESCHUETZ KUNST. Fuchs. 

 An elementary treatise on artillery shooting. Gotha, 

 1790. Svo. 



347. VERSUCH UBER DIE GEWEHRFABRIKEN. G. E. L. von 

 Timaeus. This treatise on gunmaking, the art of 

 shooting, and sport with the gun, appears to be a 

 compilation by a well-known publisher, and is said to 

 have been derived from English sources. I have been 

 unable to examine a copy. Eeinecke, Leipzig, 1792. 

 Svo, 8 plates. 



348. RESUMEN SACADO, etc. D. Ig. Ahadia. An account 

 of the arms in the Royal Armoury, Madrid. (Spanish.) 

 Madrid, 1793. 8vo. 



349. COMPENDIO HISTORICO de los Arcabuecros de Madrid. 

 Isidoro Soler. A compendious history of the gun- 

 makers of Madrid, with the marks they use and the 

 current counterfeits of them. Aznar, Madrid, 1795. 

 1 vol. 4to. 



