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

those being recommended which had been written by successful
generals. First there comes a short account of ancient military
writers, and of the libraries in which certain MSS. in the Greek, Latin,
Arabic, and other tongues, are to be found. Next, some modern
authors are mentioned, who are divided into two classes, those who
had written on the ancient, and those who had written on the
modern discipline. Titles are rarely given, and dates never. Part
of the essay was reprinted by Schubert at Jena, 1683, ^^^
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Crenius has included it in his collection, " De eruditione comparanda
. . . tradtatus" (Leyden, 1699, 4"), enriching it with notes.
In 1697, Saint-Remy, in his "Memoires d'artillerie " (Paris, 4°),^
printed a list of the twelve books on artillery that he considered
most necessary for study.
It has most remarkable omissions.
Leonhard Sturm, in the "Vade Mecum architeftonicum '*
(Amsterdam, 1700, 8°), gives a list of books on fortification, in
alphabetical order, under author's names, with short titles, place of
printing and date, but not editions.
In 1738 appeared the first English list.^ It was added by
William Horneck to his translation of Bernard's "Nouvelle maniere
de fortifier les places" (London, 1738, 4°), under the heading,
"An account of the rise and progress of Fortification from its
Infancy to
this June, and of the most noted Engineers who have
wrote on that subjedt.'*
Next came Loen's " Bibliotheque Militaire" (Frankfort, 1743,
8**), in two parts, historical and technical. The latter (pp. 1 25-1 67)
is in eighteen se6lions, each subdivided according to language.
The first Spanish military bibliography to be printed was Garcia
de la Huerta's " Biblioteca Militar" (Madrid, 1760, 8°). Huerta,
however, seems only to have published a manuscript which he
found in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, while librarian there.
F. von Nicolai, in 1765, issued the first number of " Nachrichten
von alten und neuen Kriegs-Buchern " (Stuttgart, 8°) ; it
» Reprinted, Paris, 1707 (La seconde Ed.), La Haye, 1741 (La quatrieme Ed.),
and Paris, 1745, 4*^. A pirated ed. of Amsterdam, 1702, 4°.
' Doisy. I have not seen the work.