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

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As also
Sundry Colledlions taken out of the most approved
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Authors, ancient, |
and moderne, either in
In two Bookes. By
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Greeke.^l TFrench.
Latine. - | Spanish.
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English.
[Dutch,
Robert Ward, Gentleman and Commander.
[Quotation from Pol. Lib.
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London,
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Printed
by lohn Dawson, and are to be sold by Francis Eglesjield
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at the
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signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard. 1639.
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Folio.
Collation. Blc. II. has separate Tp. and pag.— ist Tp,, !,—Deds. to
Charles I., Robert, Earl of Warwick, and William, Lord Maynard of Elton,
2-*5.— Verses, *6-8.— Cts., Ai-6.— Half-title runs: " Anima 'dversions
Of Warre. The Second Booice. By Robert Ward Gentleman, and Commander.
London, Printed by John Dawson, 1639."—Woodcuts and ills.
(2 folding).—Sigs. in 6», Blc. I. (*), A-Z, aa-11; Bk. IL Aa-Ii. (*) and 11
are in 8% 118 blank j between sigs. I3 and I4 are inserted 2 fF., one having
a woodcut diagram, the other its
letterpress.
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Contents. As a book of reference on nearly all branches of the military art
this will be found of the greatest value, the author having gone for his information
to the best sources available, adding, besides, excellent observations of
his own. It has been much quoted from by modern writers on military
antiquities. The subj eft-matter is arranged in twenty-two Se