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

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fortified cities. ^ Of ordinance, petards, and fireworks. % Of
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the severall duties of officers, and souldiers.
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^ Of the Grecian,
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and Romane Militia, and form- ing of battaillons ; &c.
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The Lord of Praissac. Englished by I[ohn] C[ruso].
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Cambridge
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Printed by Roger Daniel^ Printer to that
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Universitie. And are to be sold by
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in Pauls church- yard in London.
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Odlavo.
'John Williams at the Crane
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There is a second title-page :
Sixteen-thirty-nine.
A short Method for the easie resolving of any
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Militarie Question propounded. By The Lord of Praissac.
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Englished by L C. Cambridge : Printed by Roger Daniel,
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Printer to that famous Universitie.
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'1639.
Collation. Tp., Ai.—Imprimatur, Aij.—Ded. to Henry, Lord Maltravers,
A2 ;
another, Ai^.—Cts., A3.—The " Short Method " has separate
tp. and pag., but continuous sig. :— Tp., Oi, and Ded. to Philip Skippon,
O2.—No R.H.—Ills, and diags.—Sigs. in 8% A to N, and O, which has
6ff.
Copies. B.M. ; R.A.I.
Contents. A book frequently quoted from, and, in its time, highly esteemed.
It has now become very scarce, and is almost unknown to bibliographers
neither Hazlitt nor Lowndes, Brunet nor Graesse, mentions it. The Second
Part, which was intended by Du Praissac to be used as a " corollary," or
epitome of his other trafts, is to be found also bound separately. Bowes '
gives an edition of the " Discourses " of 1642. [V. Orig. 634.]
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147. Sixteen-thirty-nine. Ward, Robert.
Anima' Adversions Of Warre
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Or, A Militarie Magazine
Of The Trvest Rvles, And Ablest
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Instrvdions, For
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The Ma- naging Of Warre. Composed, Of The Most
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Refined Discipline, And Choice Experiments that these late
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Netherlandish, and Swedish Warres have produced. With
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divers new inventions, both of Fortifications
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and Stratagems.
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"Cat. of Cam. Books," 1894, 8vo.
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