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

tary.
United Provinces
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his Highncsse
the Prince Of Orange. Treating
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Of Severall Peeces Of
Ordnance, Carriages, Engines,
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Quadrants, Morters, Petards,
Praaised In The Warres
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Of The
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Vnder the Lords the
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States Generall
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And
as also instru6tions for Master-Gunners,
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and Canoniers, with
divers Instruments and Materials belonging to a warre with
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their severall uses and pradtises, most briefly and lively demonstrated
by Letter and Figvre. Together With A List
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Of All Necessary Preparations appertaining
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With a Quarter for the Generall of the |
Officers belonging to his Traine.
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Captaine Henry Hexham,
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Written
Ordnance, and of all
and composed by
Quarter-master to the truly
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honourable, Colonell Goring his Regiment, for the lovers of
the Noble Art Militarie.
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The second Edition Correfted
and Amended. Rotterdam
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Printed by James Moxon. 1643.
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Folio.
Collation. Tp., ist f.—Ded. to Charles Lodovic, Eleftor Palatine, 2nd
f.—Cts., P42.— Ills.—Sigs. in 2% 2 ff. unsigned, A-P j P has 4 ff.
Copies. B.M.
Editions;—Hexham, in his translation of Marolois, 1637 [No. 139},
speaks of all three parts [v. Nos. 136 and 163]. Hazlitt mentions an ed. of
"The Third Part ", Hague, 1640, sent out by Humphrey Mosley, London,
1641, in one volume, with the "First Part" and the "Second Part**;
perhaps the ed. entered in the W.O. Cat. as London, 1641, fol.
Contents.
Pp. 1-34 treat of the founding of ordnance and of gun carriages,
mortars, etc., with 7 full-page engravings, and 3 separate plates. Hexham
gives the recipes of Bianco, Ufano, and de Brissac for the composition of an
alloy, suitable for the casting ofcannon. Pp. 35 to 38, A question propounded
to the Batavian engineers by the mathematician, Jean Baptiste of Antwerp,
regarding the battering of a horn work, with its solution. Pp. 39 to 44, Two
dialogues on the position of artillery, (i.) in attacking a fortress, (ii.) in a
battle-field i
the second translated from Diego Ufeno. Pp. 45 to 47, On
bridges, on the horse-water-mill for draining, invented by Vitruvius, etc.,
on an oven for baking bread, etc., with two plates. Pp. 48 to 53, A list of
ordnance, munition, and other necessaries to be carried with an army. Pp.
54 and 55, a description of the quarters of the train of artillery, with a plan.
The plate on page 48 illustrates the implements used for making trenches
and fortifications.
The three parts of the "Principles of the Art Military" were written
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