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42. Fifteen-eighty-nine. Ive, Paul.
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The
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Practise of Fortification : wherein is shewed the
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manner of |
fortifying in all sorts of scituations, with
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the
considerations to be vsed in delining, and making of royal
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Frontiers, Skon-
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ces, and renforcing of ould
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walled Townes.
Compiled in a most easie, and compendious method,
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by
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Paule lue. Gent.
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Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin,for
T'homas Man^
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and Toby Cooke. 1589.
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Blacic letter.
Colbtion.
Quarto.
Tp., Aai.—Ded. to Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, Aa2.
—Diags. (one folding).—Err., Gg2.—R.H.: "The practise of Fortification."
—Sigs. in 4% Aa-Gg2.—Aa, a — 2". 36 and 37 11. to p.
apies. B.M.; W.O.
Contents. Printed for publication either separately, or with the " Instructions
for the Warres" [No. 41]. Chaps. : 1. On choice of position for a
fort. II. Ground in relation to forts. III. On the delineation or trace of
a work. IV. On earthworks. V. On fortifying old walled towns.
43. Fifteen-eighty-nine.
Policies of War Collefted out of sundry Authors.
Entered to Master Cawood warden \ Sept. 1589. vj"*.—Arber, ii. 529.
44. Fifteen-eighty-nine. Meier, Albert.
souldiers,
Certaine briefe, and
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speciall Instru6lionsforGen-
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tlemen,
marriners, etc. Employed in
merchants, students,
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seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned
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to
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conuerse in the
kingdomes, and gouernementes of
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forren Princes. |
London,
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Printed by lohn Woolfe^ \ 1589. |
Quarto.
Collation. Tp., Ai.—Ded. to Sir Francis Drake, subs. Philip Jones,
A2-3.—Lat. verses, A4 and D4.—Cts., Bi.—R.H.: "Instructions for
Trauellers."—Sigs. in 4% A-D.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. Lowndes says that he saw a copy of this extremely rare book
entered in a bookseller's catalogue as being dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh ;
but the catalogue was probably in error. The original was written at the
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