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Irish.
M. DC. XXXIV.
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At
Bruxells, |
By
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the Widowe of Jhon Mommart.
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Folio.
Collation. Engraved frontis.— Tp., Si .—Ded. to David, Earl of Barrymore,
dated from the Court of Brussels, May i. 1534., 32-3.— Pref., 34.
—Cts., Dd22-Ee4.—Err., Ee42.— Licences from Philip of Spain and others,
E5-6.—Printer's device, Ee62.—Tables and diags. (14 folding).—R.H.
"Military Discipline", " Fire-Wourckes ", "Fortificationes and Instructiones."—Sigs.
in 4% a, A-Z, Aa-Ee j Ee has 6 ff.—Bks. II. and III. have
separate tpp.
Copies. B.M.; W.O.; Patent Office ; R.A.I.
Contents. A compilation of no great merit. The bad spelling is accounted
for by the book having been printed abroad. Barry was the translator of
Hugo's "Siege of Breda" [No. iii].
131. Sixteen-thirty-five. Babington, John.
Pyrotechnia Or,
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A Discovrse Of
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Artificial!
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Fire-
Works : In which the true Grounds of that Art are plainly
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and perspicuously laid downe : Together with sundry such
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Motions, both Straight and
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Circular, performed by the helpe
of Fire, as are not |
to be found in any other Discourse of this
kind, Extant in any Language.
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Whereunto is annexed a
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short Treatise of Geo-
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metric . . . Written by John Babington
Gunner, and Student |
in the Mathematics.
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London,
Printed by Thomas Harper, for Ralph Mab,
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mdcxxxv.
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Folio.
Collation. Ded. to the Earl of Newport, ^2.—Pref., ^3.—Cts., ^4.
Verses, ^5-6.—Engravings, one folding.—R.H. "
: Pyrotechnia, or. Artificial!
Fire-Workes."—Sigs. in 6^ TM, A-F. The treatise on Geometry has
separate tp. and pag.
Copies. B.M. i
W.O. ; R.A.I.
Contents. Babington describes a fire-work that ** may serve as well for
service in war as for pleasure or triumph ", which in its efFedl may be regarded
as a prototype of our shrapnel shell. It consisted of a ball, twelve inches in
diameter, hollowed to receive the charge, and having holes radiating from
the concavity to the surface for the insertion of cylindrical chambers, each
to contain a bullet. It was fired from a mortar.
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