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

MANUFACTURE OF FIREARMS AND
POWDER.
837. Brescia. 1577. Cataneo, Girolamo.
Arte di fare le armi et i fucili.
Ayala, p. 141. Cited by Gassendi and Cotty, but no copy is known.
Marchetti, in the Ded. of his collefted ed. of Cataneo (Brescia, 1584, see
No. 542) expressly states that he had " diligently brought together all that
had been written " by the great engineer, up to the time of printing ;
omits this treatise. It is doubtful that it ever existed.
yet he
838. Amstleredam. 1593.
Der Bussen Meesterye.
Hier begint een seer uytnemende
boecxke, dickwils versocht en warachtich bevonden om alderhande
gheschut te schieten, ende om Salpeter, poeyer en alderhande
vyerwercke sonderlinghe te bereyden, en is seer profytelijck
voor alien Busmeesters oft Busschieters . . . nu eerst
overgheset uyt den Hooghduytsche etc. E, Muller voor C,
Claesz.
Quarto. A-H in 4».
Copies. 6.M.
839. Padoua. 1607. Zonca, Vittorio.
Novo Teatro di machine et edificii. etc. [Pietro Bertel/i.]
including plates.
Folio, a, A-P2 in 4%
Between pp. 82-87 are descriptions of two powder mills with illustrations.
Eds. : ib., F. Bertelli, 1621, 4°, and 1656, fol. Ayala gives, ib., 1627.
Copies. B.M. (all three) ; Bod. (1607, 1656).
840. Anversa. 1625. Bossi, Giuliano.
Breve trattato d'alcune inventioni che sono state fatte per
217 F F