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

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was to have been in
six parts, but the others were never printed.'
The first part contains a list of writers on tadtics, ancient and
modern, with brief notices of some of them ; short titles, and, in
some cases, editions are given. The plan is far more extensive
than Loen's, and it is to be regretted that the other parts were not
published.
Not a bibliography, stri6lly speaking, is the admirable " Discurso
sobre los illustres autores e inventores de artilleria" (Madrid,
1767, 1 2*, pp. 144) of Vincente de los Rios. Six authors, Tartaglia,
Alaba, Collado, Lechuga, Ufano, and Firrufino, are treated of at
length, while other writers on the subjedt are mentioned briefly.
An attempt at a general military bibliography was made by
Conrad Walther in i783,"Versuch einervollstandigenMilitair-Bibliothek"
(Dresden, 8°, pp. 376).
This catalogue, in sixteen parts, is
arranged according to subje6t, with an index to authors and subjects
at the end. Though it is the most complete and best arranged
that had so far been printed, on account of the confusion of titles
and of the large number of printer's errors, mistakes in names,
dates, etc., little
dependence can be placed on it.
Hoyer's " Geschichte der Kriegskiinste [und Wissenschaften]
(Gottingen, 1797- 1800, 8°) is in seven parts. At the end of
parts v., vi., and vii. are lists of military books printed between
1 65 1 and 1798, the earlier writers being given in footnotes.^
The first Italian military bibliography is Guarnieri's " Breve
biblioteca dell' architettura militare" (Milan, 1797 and 1803,
4°*). This was amplified by Marini in his preface to the splendid
reprint of Marchi's "Architettura militare" (Roma, 18 10, fol.).
Rumpfs " Allgemeine Literatur der Kriegswissenschaften '*
(Berlin, 1824, 8"*) is the best known of the German bibliographies.
It is
arranged chronologically according to subjed:, in sections, and
these again split up according to size. Rumpf has based his catalogue
on Walther, whose inaccuracies
he has transported into his
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MS. note in B.M. copy.
* Hoyer wrote also " "
: Litteratiir der Kriegswissenschaften und Kriegsgeschichte
(Berlin, 1832, 1840, 8").