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

PREFACE.
'({T^Ch^HE first steps in the study of a subjecfl are often
bibliographical.
So well did Hulsius^ understand
this that for the benefit of his readers he made a
list containing the short titles of the works used
in preparing his treatises " Der Mechanischen
Instrumenten " (Franckfurt-am-Mayn, 1604, 4**),
prefixing it to Part I. Twenty, at least, of the hundred works
mentioned may be classed as military ; and starting from this index,
with its recognition of the fadt that some acquaintance with what
had already been written should be a prelude to research, it will
not be out of place to inquire here what further assistance has been
given from time to time in this respect to the student of the art of
war and its history. A brief notice of the books a