A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

fiue first Bookes entire :
quent Bookes unto the eighteenth,
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With
all the parcels of the subse-
according
to the Greeke
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Originall. |
Also the manner of the Romane encam-
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ping,
Translated into
extracted from the discription
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of Polybivs.
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Grimeston, Sergeant at Armes.
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London,
English by Edward
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Printed by Nicholas Okesfor |
Simon Waterson.
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Folio.
Collation.
1634.
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Tp., enclosed in woodcut, IF2.—Ded. to William, Lord Craven,
f3.—Translator's Ded., ir4-A3.— Err., A4.—Cts., Ccc3-Ddd3.—R.H.:
"The History of Polybius."—Sigs. 1[, A-Z in 4«i Aa-Zz, Aaa-Ddd in
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D4, blank.
Copies.
B.M.
Contents, Translated from Louis de Meigret's French version, of w^hich
there is an ed. of 1552 in the B.M. The fragment relating to the military
organization and encampments of the Romans ("De militia Romanorum et
castrorum") forms part of Bk. VL of the history, and was at first printed
separately, eds. appearing in Venice, 1529, 4°, Basle, 1537, 8°, and Geneva,
1596, fol. See also Graevius' "Thesaurus Antiquitatem Romanarum,"
1694, fol., vol. 10; Stewechius' ed. of Vegetius, Leyden, 1592, 1607, and
1644; and Schryver's " Veteres de re Militari scriptores," 1670, 8°,
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128. Sixteen-thirty-four. Peacham, Henry.
The
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Compleat
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Gentleman.
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Fashioning him absolut, in
the most necessa- ry and commendable Qualities concerning
Minde or
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Body, that may be required
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in a Noble
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Gentleman.
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Wherevnto is annexed a de-
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scription of the
order of a Maine Battaile or
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Pitched Field, eight severall
wayes : with the Art of Limming and other Additions
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newly Enlarged. By HenryPeachamMaster of Arts: Sometime
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of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.
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London,
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Printedfor Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his
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shoppe in
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the [sic] Crane. 1634. |
Quarto.
Contents. This is the 2nd ed. The military " observations" will be found
in chap, xx., pp. 240-250; also in the 3rd ed. (London, 1661, 4°), but not
in the ist (London, 1622, 4°). The observations comprise instrudlions in
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