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A 

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
GUNS AND SHOOTING. 

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A Bibliography of 



Guns and Shooting. 



BEING A LIST OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ENGLISH AND 

FOREIGN BOOKS RELATING TO FIREARMS AND THEIR USE, 

AND TO THE COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURE OF 

EXPLOSIVES; WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 

ON TECHNICAL BOOKS AND THE WRITERS 

OF THEM, FIREARMS INVENTIONS AND 

THE HISTORY OF GUNMAKING, AND 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 

ART OF WING SHOOTING. 



Compiled and Revised to Date. 

BY 

WIRT GERRARE, 

FORMERLY EDITOR OF "THE GUNMAKER," "THE SPORTING GOODS REVIEW," ETC., ETC. 





THE 

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CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 

PAGE 

TECHNICAL BOOKS AND THE WRITERS OF THEM, WITH 
SOME PARTICULARS OF FIREARMS INVENTIONS, THE 



HISTORY OF GUNMAKING ON THE CONTINENT OF 
EUROPE, IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRACTICE 
AND ART OF SHOOTING ON THE WING . . . i 

PART I. 
ANCIENT BOOKS (14721850). 

BOOKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1600 15 

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS 23 

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS 24 

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS . . . .42 
FOREIGN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS .... 50 
BOOKS PUBLISHED l8oO 1850, IN ENGLISH . . .58 

FRENCH . . . .71 

,, GERMAN . . . 75 

ITALIAN . . 79 

SPANISH 80 



vi Contents. 



PART II. 
MODERN BOOKS (18511894). 

PAGE 

ENGLISH BOOKS: 

GUNS AND SHOOTING GUNMAKING GUN TRADE 

PROOF OF GUNS 85 

RIFLES THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT MONOGRAPHS 

OF SPECIAL ARMS 97 

GUNNERY BALLISTICS FIELD TRIALS ART OF RIFLE 

SHOOTING 101 

CURRENT ENGLISH SPORTING BOOKS .... 106 

SELECTED ENGLISH BOOKS ON FOREIGN SPORT . .115 

EUROPE ... . . . . 116 

ASIA. . . .... 117 

AFRICA 120 

AMERICA 122 

AUSTRALASIA . . . . . 128 
FRENCH BOOKS: 

CURRENT WORKS ON SHOOTING 129 

GUNS GUN MANUFACTURE GUNNERY . . .138 
GERMAN BOOKS : 

GENERAL WORKS MILITARY RIFLES MUSKETRY 
GUN-MAKING SPORTING ... .148 

ITALIAN BOOKS .... . . 155 

SPANISH BOOKS . . . 157 

VARIOUS LANGUAGES . , 160 



Contents. vii 



PART III. 
APPENDICES. 

PAGE 

A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPLOSIVES : 

BOOKS RELATING TO GUNPOWDER . . . .163 

MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES, ETC 165 

AMMUNITION, GUN WOUNDS, ETC 168 

TECHNICAL PAPERS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES, AND NEWSPAPER 

REFERENCES 170 

SELECTED BOOKS ON OLD ARMS, FOREIGN ARMS, ETC. . 178 
CATALOGUES OF COLLECTIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS . .181 
BIBLIOGRAPHIES : SPORTING MILITARY ENCYCLOPEDIAS 

AND TECHNICAL DICTIONARIES 184 

INDEX TO AUTHORS 191 

SOME RECENT BOOKS AND OMISSIONS UP TO THE END OF 
1895 203 



INTEODUCTION. 



So many books have been written upon guns and shooting 
that no apology is needed for publishing a guide to them. 
Incomplete and inadequate as the compilation may be, it 
is better than none at all ; for, if practical utility be the 
standard by which to measure the value of technical books, 
few will rank higher in the estimation of students than do 
bibliographies. 

To the book collector this work will be probably of little 
value : it was compiled for the use of a writer, not a book 
buyer, and is both conceived and arranged with a view to 
best serving the needs of the student. 

Having departed from the customary method of arrange- 
ment, a short explanation is desirable. The classification 
of books according to the accident of the initial letter of the 
name of the person writing them entails much additional 
labour upon all who consult a bibliography in order to 
identify a book, instead of for information concerning the 
writer of it; the arrangement of books alphabetically by 
titles is equally objectionable ; and the method of Rumpf , 
who classed the books in accordance with their size, is 
worst of all. The classification by authors' names is a 
survival : in days when authors were few, men of erudition 
were supposed to know at least the names of all, and 
doubtless possessed some idea as to the dates at which the 
various authors wrote. Now authors are numerous, and 
the persons who most often consult a bibliography, what- 

1 



Introduction. 



ever their knowledge of the subject, are rarely well 
acquainted with the names of the persons who have written 
upon it. Moreover, in the history of firearms it is the date, 
and in technical matters the fact, which is all-important, 
the personality of the author being frequently of no moment 
whatever. Learned persons may at once recognise Walter 
in Valturius and Greaves in Gravius, but learned persons 
are not likely to take so much interest in guns and shooting 
as are class journalists, technical instructors, and gun- 
makerspersons who are not learned in the dry-as-dust 
sense. Another trouble with names, particularly foreign 
names, is to recognise the important designation: Alenzo 
Martinez del Espinar would, in accordance with the British 
Museum rules of indexing, have to be sought in the 
catalogue under D, the portion of the name least likely to 
be remembered. With some double names, particularly 
those of Austrian writers, it is customary to place the 
Christian, or added, name after the family name a process 
of inversion which human powers of recollection often 
perform automatically, and after a short time recall Alvarez 
Perez as Perez Alvarez. In order to save the time of the 
student, in the alphabetical list of authors some authors 
have more than one entry, owing to the persistence with 
which the added name surged up into memory, whilst the 
correct index name could not be recollected. 

Clearly, for the student of history classification by dates 
is likely to be more convenient. If the student wishes to 
learn what was known of firearms in the seventeenth 
century, it is better to turn to a catalogue of the works 
published at that time than to search through many lists 
of unknown names, and often, upon choosing a writer, 
consult the work only to find that it belongs to another 
period. In the same way the language in which books are 
written is of minor importance, and the size of the book 



Introduction. 



probably of no account whatever. Therefore, in the first 
part of this bibliography, which is devoted to ancient books 
those published between 1450 and 1850 the order is 
mainly chronological ; but the books of the last century are 
subdivided into English and Foreign, and those of the first 
half of the present century into English, French, German, 
Italian, and Spanish. 

In dealing with modern books a different classification is 
advisable. To most it is of the first importance to learn 
whether the book is written in English if not, in what 
language it is written ; or to know what technical books 
exist in any particular language. The subdivisions in this 
second part therefore deal in the first place with books in 
English those relating to arms generally, to particular 
descriptions of arms, to the technicalities of gun-making, 
to the proof of guns, to ballistics or gunnery, to the art of 
shooting with gun and rifle, and, lastly, to sport with the 
gun at home and abroad. The same method of subdividing 
is adhered to with French and German books, and, in a 
minor degree, with those of Italy and Spain. 

No bibliography of practical proportions could be produced 
unless many works were purposely excluded. In this com- 
pilation books will be found which at first sight will appear 
to have no right of entry as long as others are excluded ; 
but there are publications with misleading or too compre- 
hensive titles which need to be specified in order that time 
may not be wasted by referring to certain books owing to a 
misconception of their nature. " The Rifle and how to use 
it," by J. V. Bridgeman, is no indication that the work is a 
farce, and originally performed at the Haymarket in 1859. 
A docket to this effect will save the student time and the 
librarian useless labour. 

The exclusion extends in a complete manner to modern 
military treatises dealing with ordnance, those of a general 



Introduction. 



nature, and those for the most part devoted to the art of 
war fortification and military tactics ; all such works are 
enumerated in the military bibliographies, which may be 
readily consulted. Many sporting works, in which some- 
thing is said of firearms and shooting, have also had to be 
passed by, and only a bare hundred out of the many recent 
works devoted to sport abroad have been selected. Foreign 
sporting works, of little technical interest, have also been 
omitted; the reader needing them may advantageously 
consult the more general bibliography of Souhait. Russian 
sporting books have been excluded it must not, however, 
be inferred that Russia has no literature of this description, 
only that the typographical difficulties were considerable, 
and the interest at present taken in Russian books of the 
class infinitesimal. The bibliographical notices in " Priroda 
y Ohhota " and in the service periodicals will probably be 
sufficient for the purposes of the few readers likely to require 
to consult Russian sporting books. 

The appendices contain a short bibliography of works 
relating to explosives, such works having been selected as 
likely to prove of the greatest service to the student of the 
history of guns and shooting ; lists of the most noteworthy 
technical papers read before learned societies ; and an index 
to technical articles in various periodicals. The student 
of history will find short references to works dealing with 
the archaeology of firearms, a list of catalogues of various 
collections of arms, and also the titles of various biblio- 
graphies, which may be of use in supplementing the one 
now presented. 

The introduction of firearms into Europe preceded the 
invention of printing by nearly two centuries; but the 
earliest manuscripts which treated of guns were subsequently 
printed, or, like those of Cataneo, were lost. As is well 
known, the first mention of the use of firearms in England, 



Introduction. 



contained in a contemporary record, is found in the inden- 
ture of John Starlyng and Helmyng Leget, dated 1338, and 
referring to the equipment of the King's ships Bernard de la 
Tour and Christqfre de la Tour; but there are several who 
wrote of their use in the past tense ; as John Barbour, who 
in 1375 stated of the Scotch that in 1327- 

" Twa noweltys that dai thai saw 
That forouth in Scotland had bene nane 
Tymmris for helmys war the tane, 
That thaim thoucht than off grete bewte 
And alstia wondre for to se. 
The tothyr crakys war off wer 
That thai befor herd nevir er." 

The use of firearms seems to have been so widely known 
in Chaucer's time as to warrant that writer in drawing a 
simile for great velocity from the flight of a shot, thus : 

" Swift as a pillet out of a gonne 
When fire is in the pouder ronne." 

At least a score separate and distinct treatises on firearms, 
gunpowder or matters incidental to their employment, had 
been written and published on the Continent before an 
English work on the subject was produced. To William 
Bourne, who in 1587 published the " Arte of Shootinge in 
Great Ordnance" belongs the honour of first place; his 
little book of 94 pages contained much that was original, 
and served as a basis for several better known and more 
pretentious works. 

On the Continent the literature of the art of war has 
always been more extensive than in England ; and military 
science was one of the few subjects which could be treated 
liberally. True, the works were dedicated to, and that is 
to say, were not only under the patronage of, but were 
practically supported by, some strong ruler ; and the 



Introduction. 



strong ruler was ordinarily a successful warrior whose 
achievements were lavishly extolled in the works. To 
this class must be ascribed the book of Valturius and some 
of the treatises written by Cataneo, Colliado, and Tartaglia. 
The more practical among this class of writers gave instruc- 
tions for the manufacture of cannon, gunpowder, projectiles 
and military fireworks ; for in those days, when it was usual 
to build a cannon at the place where it was to be used, and 
to break it up after it had served in the one siege, the 
science of gun construction was a necessary part of the 
knowledge of a good commander. Another class of writer 
was that to which W. Bourne belonged, the practical 
gunner. Very numerous are the treatises on the art of 
aiming cannon, and the instruction of the " perfect canoneer " 
seems to have included always a careful grounding in 
elementary arithmetic and plane geometry. Thus the 
historian and philosopher on the one hand repeated the 
lore of ancient military commanders, with the addition of 
elementary facts drawn from recent experiences, and some- 
times gave indications of the application of natural law 
to the flight of projectiles ; and on the other, master 
gunners wrote practical instructions for the acquisition 
of a difficult art and the study of elementary mathematics. 
It was not until the epoch-marking book of Benjamin 
Robins appeared, in 1742, that theoretical gunnery received 
particular attention from the writers of technical books ; 
from that date the works on artillery, instead of containing 
rule-of-thumb descriptions, like those of Ufano, Saint 
Julien, Gaya, and Siemenowicz, treated the principles of 
gunnery more in the modern scientific manner. 

With reference to the manufacture of small arms, not 
so much was written, but more probably than was written 
of any other industrial art. It is hardly to be expected 
that any practical art can have a considerable literature; 



Introduction. 



for what the skilled workman learns by practice he cannot 
impart by verbal descriptions, even were he so minded. 
When hand firearms came into general use the trade guilds 
were already firmly established, and a separate guild, that 
of gunmakers, was not possible in all centres, becavise the 
existing guilds of the smiths and the carpenters divided the 
work between them, and were jealous of any interference 
with their privileges. As the " art and mystery " of 
gunmaking was not recognised until the end of the 
seventeenth century, and as arms were considered national 
in the sense that their manufacture could be improved and 
their form changed without incurring the enmity of manu- 
facturing corporations, firearms developed quickly. Cataneo 
wrote a treatise informing how the processes of manufacture 
should be carried on, Bossi told how to improve the prin- 
ciple of construction, and Jacquinet showed how the finished 
weapon should be ornamented ; all before any Gunmakers' 
Company was chartered in England, and when the Suhl 
gunmakers were petitioning for incorporation. Not that 
the inventor's lot was any more happy in the seventeenth 
century than in the nineteenth. Poor Bossi, who appears 
to have been a genius and determined upon perfecting the 
double-barrelled gun, started from his native Rome to try 
his fortune in Flanders, even then a centre of the firearms 
industry. His success there appears to have been poor, 
for he subsequently tried Paris and other centres, and the 
double gun remained an unappreciated invention. 

Quite apart from these writers of treatises upon firearms 
from the military standpoint, there remain to be con- 
sidered the champions of the gun as a sporting weapon. 
Although, as Sidney Smith states, the tenth Muse is 
courted in this country more assiduously than in any other, 
and although the earliest known manuscript in the English 
language is upon a sporting topic, and the first " boke " 



8 Introduction. 



in our tongue likewise devoted to a princely pastime, 
there are no English writers upon sport with firearms 
until late in the seventeenth century. Pablo del Fucar 
and Erasmo di Yalvasone had both treated of the use of 
firearms for sporting purposes in the sixteenth century ; 
Tamariz de la Escaler and Vita Bonfadini had written 
treatises on the art of wing shooting long before Blome 
produced his great tome and taught how to creep within 
range of jugging partridges and pot them unawares. 

The " Maison Rustique" was the precursor of the country 
encyclopaedia, of which Blome's book was a fair specimen, 
and a variety of which is still with us, even to-day 
" British Rural Sports " is on the railway bookstalls, but 
these early compilations were far from being the thorough 
works modern encyclopaedias have become, now that each 
article is contributed by an expert and constitutes not 
seldom the best monograph extant on the subject treated. 
The early cyclopaedias were put together by the publisher's 
hack, and the student in search of original facts and reliable 
information will do well to avoid them and choose some of 
the less pretentious publications. 

The poets have contributed not a few lines to fii-earms. 
The epic on the chase was a favourite essay for Italian 
writers. It was a congenial theme with the much -satirised 
poet laureate Pye ; and though his verse is far from 
approaching in interest the better known " Chace " of W. 
Somerville, he is far from being the worst author of metrical 
lines on shooting. Watts wrote facetiously, and Aldington 
heavily and seriously ; Francis Fawkes and K. McLemon 
have not made their names immortal by their poems on 
sport with the gun ; but, notwithstanding their example 
and lack of success, verse on the subject is still being 
produced. 

An important class of authors has been recruited from 



Introduction. 



the ranks of the gunmakers. Bossi and Jacquinet in the 
seventeenth, Page and Baker in the eighteenth, Brandeis, 
Deane, Dcmgall, and three generations of Greeners in the 
nineteenth centuries, have each and all had practical ex- 
perience of the trade, and, taken collectively, may be said 
to have contributed the greater part of the original matter 
found in the technical literature of the firearms industry. 
It is surprising, even to one acquainted with literary 
plagiarism, to note the persistency with which information 
on technical and sporting matters was annexed in the 
" good old days," and palmed off as first-hand authority. 
The much-extolled Marolles, whose essay of 1784 was 
translate^ into English and has been constantly quoted, 
drew freely upon Vita Bonf adini and Tamariz de la Escaler, 
less from Spadoni, Juan Mateos, and Martinez del Espinar, 
leaving the original matter to be gathered by interviewing 
some Parisian gunmakers and listening to the gossip of 
sporting friends. Again, what a mine of wealth to the 
writer on field sports Colonel P. Hawker's " Instructions " 
has proved ! 

To another class belong the authors who, at the com- 
mencement of this century, were so infatuated with Scottish 
sports as to create a special literature. Very poor is the 
quality of much that was produced in the passion of the 
time. " Unreal in fact and artificial in form " is likely to 
be the verdict of posterity upon the productions of even the 
best of the writers ; though to state it now would probably 
bring angry retorts from the sportsmen still living to 
whom the craving for northern field sports was once no 
imaginary desire. 

Better, in the sense of being more practical, than Wilson 
are the reminiscences of Scrope ; better, in the sense of 
being more natural, are Colquhoun of " Moor and Loch " 
and Lloyd of " Northern Europe " ; but worse, from the 



10 Introduction. 



literary point of view, are many works even more recently 
issued. In truth, the ancient fire appears to have almost 
burnt out, and such light as is shed by the glow of dying 
embers shows that the love of sport which animated such 
writers as Scrope and Colquhoun no longer burns within 
the breast of the modern sportsman-author. Scotch shooting 
appears more as a fashion, deerstalking a function, and 
grouse-shooting an exhibition in which the society man, 
and often the society woman, is expected to share. It 
would be wrong to attribute the change to the want of 
skill in the writers ; they do but reflect the tendency of 
the times. Indications are not wanting to show that the 
special craving, or that stimulus to action which only the 
sport of shooting can appease, no longer occurs with the 
frequency it did half a century ago. Shooting is now but a 
means to an end : the end may be some social excitement 
among a country house party, or it may be the collection 
of a wild Thibetan camel for a natural history museum ; 
but the prompting does not arise purely from the love of 
sport, as it once did, if our authors are to be believed. To 
many, a life of adventure is a necessity : when the shooting 
of large game is also a way of earning money, no wonder 
men enter into the business as upon any other career ; but 
to large game hunting for commercial purposes an end will 
quickly come unless game is more efficiently protected than 
was the American bison. The percentage of sportsmen 
to whom the agony of a buffalo dropped to their rifle is 
a sight to remember with pleasure, is small, and to the 
majority of these a stalk in Chillingham Park would 
probably be as pleasurable as an expedition to Central 
Africa. On the other hand, there is a very large and 
rapidly growing community for whom all things living in a 
state of nature have a powerful attraction. To many men 
it would afford more real enjoyment to get close to a herd 



Introduction. 1 1 



of deer and observe their habits than to stalk within range 
for a pot shot. These men, who would hunt with the camera, 
and prefer to bring back a good negative showing large 
game sporting in native haunts, rather than an elephant's 
tail or a tiger's skin, have no sympathy with the sportsmen 
whose only object is to kill, and who by dissociating 
themselves from woodcraft and its attractions, have killed 
their desire for sport, and require only to glut their craving 
for blood or win approbation for their marksmanship. 

Thus it seems probable that, for the purposes of sport as 
for the purposes of war, the hand firearm is rapidly reaching 
the close of its day. To those to whom the literature of 
field sports written half a century ago is familiar, it will 
seem impossible that the enthusiasm can have died out ; and 
to those to whom the rifleman of the fifties was the hero 
and saviour the hysterical writing of those times proclaimed 
him, it would never occur that the man with the gun is to 
be of quite secondary importance in the wars of the future. 
It would be idle to argue that shooting will not long con- 
tinue as a sport with some classes, and that the infantry 
man will not again do excellent service in guerilla warfare ; 
but the contention deduced from contemporary literature, 
and not now advanced for the first time, is that the hand 
firearm, both for purposes of sport and as a military 
weapon, will not, in the early future, be regarded as pos- 
sessing the importance attributed to it in the recent past. 
The delight of sports afield will be more keenly enjoyed by 
the man in closer harmony with nature than the modern 
skilled wing shot ; and, in the event of war occurring 
between civilised nations, the machine gun and an endless 
variety of automatically acting mechanical contrivances to 
insure the defence of the party attacked will have superseded 
the infantry man. 

But firearms, both sporting and military, at present 



12 Introduction. 



engage the attention of the most clever among a generation 
of able mechanical inventors ; in the manufacture of guns 
there is expended some of the best skilled labour the century 
has produced, and whatever its future may prove, none can 
deny the present achievements of a notable industry. To 
the historian, firearms, of all weapons, will present master- 
ful attraction ; the part they have played in the world's 
history is too great ever to be ignored, even should the 
part they have yet to play prove to be one of minor 
importance. 

WIRT GERRARE. 

July 1st, 1894. 



NOTE. 

The author added an "Appendix" bringing the work up to the 
end of 1895. 



PART I. 

ancient ffioofes. 



BOOKS WEITTEN PRIOE TO 1600. 



1. RE MILITARI. Robertios Valturius. In twelve books, 
of which the tenth deals with artillery et inventu 
hominum varius reperitur. The illustrations to the 
Paris edition of 1532 are more numerous than in the 
Verona edition of 1483, and give exact representations 
of bombards, hand cannon, etc., and show also the 
manner in which they were used from ox waggons, 
ships, fortifications, gun carriages, etc. An arrange- 
ment of eight cannon, like the spokes of a vertically 
pivoted wheel, is shown ; also the Turris Tormentaria, 
et alia mirabilis machia. Verona, 1472 and 1483 ; 
Paris, 1532. Folio. 

2. ENSALADA Y AVISOS DEL ARCUBUZ. Alejo de Puettes. 
A manuscript dating back to 1500, and cited by D. ]S". 
Antonio y Huerta as existing in the library of the 
Escurial. (Spanish.) 

3. TRATTATO DI ARTIGLIERA. A sixteenth-century manu- 
script (codice della Riccardiana). Is divided into 
eight chapters, and has a vocabulary explaining such 
words as " gragnuola," " balzo," " cespi." (Italian.) 
Venice (?). 1529-39. 

4. NEUE UND BEWERKE RECEPT. Fisch und Vogel zu 
fahen. The contents of this book " of all manner of 
recipes for taking birds, beasts and fishes," are not 
known to the compiler. (German.) 1530. In Svo. 

5. ORDNUNG. Nahmen und Zahl aller Biichsen. v. 
Preuss. A list of military troops, arms, and a classi- 
fication of ordnance. (German.) Strasburg, 1530. 

15 



16 Ancient Books. 



6. BALLESTAS MOSQUETES Y ARCABUCES. Pablo del Fucar. 
A book on sporting firearms, cited by bibliographers, 
but not generally known. (Spanish.) Naples, 1535. 

7. ISTRUZIONE DEI BOMBARDIER!. Gabrielo Busca. A 
bibliographical rarity, contains " things useful to 
know." A soldiers' handbook, frequently quoted ; 
usually appeared in small 4to. (Italian.) Venice, 
1545, 1554, 1559. Carmagnola, 1584. Turin, 1598. 

8. QUESITI ET INVENTIONI DIVERSE. Nicolas Tartaglia. 
An incomplete treatise in Latin on the invention and 
qualities of artillery; first appeared in Venice 1528, 
according to Ayala. The 1546 edition, usually 
accredited as the first, is dedicated to Carlo VIII., 
King of England. See Journal des Armes Speciales, 
June, 1845. 

9. TRATTATO BELLA CACCIA. Dominica Mazzo Bocca. 
Book VIII. has a colophon " which finishes the eighth 
book of M. D. Bocca Mazzo, in which is narrated the 
various and diverse things belonging to the chase." 
(Italian.) Cartolari Perosina. Home, 1548. 4to. 

10. ORDONNANCE. A Royal Edict forbidding the taking 
of game or its sale or purchase. Paris, 1549. Small 
8vo, 8 pp. 

11. SCLOPETORUM SIVE ARCHIBUSORUM VuLNERIBUS. 

Alfonso Ferro. A treatise on the wounds caused by 
firearms, and one of the earliest on the subject. 
Rome, 1552. 

12. ORDONNANCES. Edicts of Henry II. of France respect- 
ing sporting and forest rights. Paris, 1554. Small 
8vo. 

13. MODO DI FER DIVERSE SORTE DI FUOCHI ARTIFICIALE. 
An Italian sixteenth-century MS. (codice della Maglia- 
bechiauia classe xix. n. 7), and makes mention of a 
battery in Brescia in 1564. It is almost entirely 
taken up with the preparation of saltpetre and its 
use for military fireworks. 



Books Written Prior to 1600. 17 

14. AWERTAMENTI e essainini intomo a quelle case che 
richiedemo a un perfetto bombardiero. Girolamo 
Cataneo. This book forms the fifth portion of the 
author's "Arte Militare." T. Bezola, Brescia, 1567, 
in 4to, Venetia, 1582; and A. Solicato, Yinegia, 1596, 
4to. 

15. ARTE DI FARE LE ARME ET i FUCILI. G. Cataneo. 
One of the first treatises on the art of making fire- 
arms. The writer was the author of " Arte Militare," 
and is usually described as of Novara. This treatise 
is quoted by Gassendi and Cotty, but is not known 
to bibliographers, nor is a copy known to exist; it is 
supposed to have been, issued at Brescia about 1577. 

16. BUCHSENMEISTERIE. A treatise on artillery, gunnery, 
etc., attributed to the Emperor Maximilian I. 1569. 

17. MACHINIS BELLICIS. Heronis mechanici. An edition 
of Hero, by Francesco Baroccio, Venice. Another 
work by Bernardino Baldo is more common. Its title 
is " Heronis Chesibii Belopeeca, hoc est telifactiva, 
etc." The text in Latin and Greek. This book does 
not contain any reference to firearms, although trans- 
lators and annotators occasionally mention them, and 
attempts have been made to read various references 
into the text. Venice, 1578. 

18. DISCOURS SUR L'ARTILLERIE. A MS. among the 
archives of the town of Turin. Attributed to S. A. 
Due Charles Emmanuel. Turin, 1580. 

19. PRATICA MANUELE PER L'ARTIGLIERIA. Luigi Colliado. 
A complete treatise on artillery, ancient and modern. 
The history of the art of war and the engines used 
therein. Pyrotechny and the making of artificial 
fireworks, etc., etc. The author was a Spaniard, long 
settled in Italy, and writing the Tuscan dialect. 
Various editions of the work appeared ; in some the 
author's name is printed Collado. (Italian.) Dus- 
melli, Venice, 1586, folio. Bordoni e Locarni, Milan, 
1606 ; Milan, F. Ghisolfi, 1641, in 4to. 

2 



18 Ancient Books. 



20. ARTE OF SHOOTING in GREAT ORDNANCE. Contayning 
very necessary matters for all sortes of Seruitores 
eyther by sea or by lancle. Written by William Bourne. 
The first book in English dealing with gunnery. On 
it, or on foreign works, the better known books of 
Norton, Moore and Nye were based. It is dedicated 
to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick. The intro- 
ductory preface consists of 5 pp. in italics, then 94 pp. 
text, in black letter, and 2 pp. table of contents. 
London ; printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas 
Woodcocke, 1587. 

21. PATHEWAY OF MILITARY PRACTICE, with a kalender 
for the ymbattelinge of men. Barnabie Riche. A 
tract on military exercises. Riche, London, 1587. 

22. MACCHINE DIVERSE ET ARTIFIZIORE. Certain Ramelli. 
Paris, 1588. 

23. PATHWAYS OF MILITARYE PRACTISE. Three Bookes of 
Collequies concerning the Art of Shooting in great 
and small pieces of artillery, variable randges, etc. 
This is a translation of the Italian of Nicolas Tartaglia, 
by Cyprian Lucar, who also augmented the volume. 
Whether or not this is the same " Pathway " as that 
published by Riche, the compiler has been unable to 
discover. London, 1588, folio. Another edition, entitled 
" Lucar Solace," in four books, 1590, 4to. 

24. BALLAD. Discrybinge the vallure of our Englishe 
archers and shotte that accompanied the Black Prince 
of Portugal, their governor, into the fieldes on Twees- 
dale, the 12 of August, with the welcome into Lyme 
Streete, by Master Huah Offley. Jones, London, 1589. 

25. BOOKE OF HONOUR AND ARMES, wherein is discoursed 
the causes of quarrel, and the nature of iniuries with 
their repulces, with the meanes of satisfaction and 
pacification. A treatise on duelling. Richard Jones, 
London, 1589. 



Books Written Prior to 1600. 19 

26. MILITARY DISCIPLINE. In Spanish, by D. S. de Lom- 
domo, with one other booke, entitled THE OFFICE OF 
THE SERGENT MAIOUR. One of several like works on 
the ordering of troops, etc. J. Woolf, London, 1589. 

27. CERTEN DISCOURSES CONCERNING the great mistakinge 
of the effectes of diverse sortes of wepons, and chiefly 
of the musket, calyuer, and long bowe ; and of the 
use of archers. Compiled by Sir John Smith. This 
is the gravest charge brought against the use of fire- 
arms for military purposes, by a commander who had 
much experience in Spain. Mr. Humphrey Barwick 
took up the case on behalf of the musketeers and 
bombardiers, and Sir John Smith subsequently modi- 
fied his views, but remained the staunch champion of the 
English long-bowmen. See the " British Bowman " for 
an abstract of the work, which in the original state is 
very scarce. The MS. is in the Harleian Collection. 
Rich. Jones, London, 1590. 

28. BREEFE DISCOURSE, concerning the force and effect of 
all manuall weapons of fire, and the disability of the 
long bowe or archery in respect of all others now in 
use. With sundry probable reasons for the verifying 
thereof ; the which I have doone of dutye towards my 
soveraigne and country, and for the better satisfaction 
of all such as are doubtfull of the same. Written by 
Humfrey Hanvick, gentleman, souldier, and captaine. 
Et encor plus oultre. A continuation of the musket- 
bow controversy led by Sir J. Smith, this little 
manual of 42 pp. is a brief for firearms, and was soon 
answered by Sir J. Smith, who admitted that firearms 
had their use. See "The English Bowman," 1810. 
Pdch. Olife, 1591, 4to, black letter, 42 pages, with a 
folding woodcut manual. 

29. TRATADO DE ARTILLERIA. J. Ferrufino. A manu- 
script in the National Library, Madrid. The work 
of an Italian who left Milan in 1588, for an appoint- 
ment as Director of Artillery. 1591, 1595. 



20 Ancient Books. 



30. UNTERRICHT. Kaspar Burger. How to shoot from 
fortifications or in the field, the ordering of ordnance 
and the loading of arms. (German.) Strassburg, 
1591. 4to. 

31. INSTRUZZIONE DE BOMBARDIERI. Eugenio Gentillini. A 
manual for gunners. (Italian.) Venice, 1592. 4to. 

32. MANNER How TO HANDLE WEAPONS SAFELY, as well 
offensive as defensive. Giacomo de Gresse. A trans- 
lation of an inferior Italian treatise. J. Jagger, 
London, 1593. 

33. CERTEN INSTRUCTIONS, observaconns and orders 
militarie requisite for all cheeftaines, captaines, and 
higher and lower men of charge. Sir John Smithe, 
Knight. Another treatise by the chief advocate for 
the suppression of hand guns in the British Army. 
Rich. Jones, London, 1594. 

34. ABSOLUTE SOLDIER, or Pollicee of Arms. Ponsonby, 
London, 1595. 

35. HAWKING, HUNTING, FOWLING, FISHING, with the true 
measures of blowing. Witt Gryndall. This book is 
rarely found : whether or not it treats of shooting is 
not known by the compiler. London, 1596, folio. 
[Not in British Museum.] 

36. POLIORCETICON SIVE DE MACHINIIS. Justus LipSlUS. 

An account of the artillery of the ancients, in five 
books, of which the fifth is the only one treating of 
Tormentis, or firearms. The writer was born in 1547, 
and, according to Scaliger, was venerated almost as a 
deity in the Netherlands. This book is usually found 
bound up with other books, commonly with De Cruce, 
published the following year. (Latin.) Antwerp, 
1596, folio, 263 pp. plates ; included also in complete 
edition of works, published in 1665. 

37. BUCHSENMEISTEREI. The art of gunnery, and direc- 
tions for making guns, muskets, powder, projectiles, 
and fireworks. (German.) Frankfort, 1597. 



Books Written Prior to 1600. 21 

38. NOMI DELL' ARTIGLIERIA. An Italian sixteenth -century 
MS. (codice della Riccardiana). The writer was on 
board a Venetian vessel in 1597 at Lisbon preparing 
for the invasion of England. Among other matters 
dealt with are English usages in comparison with 
those prevalent in Lisbon and among the Venetians. 

39. THEORIE AND PRACTISE OF MODERN WARS, descoursed 
in dialogewise. Ponsonby, London, 1597. 

40. CORONA E PALM A MILITARE DI ARTIGLIERA. Alex- 
andra Capobianco. A treatise on artillery, measuring 
instruments, mathematics, and gunnerv. Bariletti, 
Venice, 1598, 1602, 1618, 1647, fol. 

41. DIANA of George of Monte Mayor, done out of the 
Spanish into English by Bartholomew Younge, gent. 
Geo. Bysshop, London, 9 September, 1598. 

42. ARTE OF GUNNERY, by Thos. Smythe, of Barwycke- 
upon-Tweed, souldyer. London, 1599. 

43. BUCHSENMEISTEREI UND FEUERWERKEREI. Brechtel. A 

treatise on firearms and fireworks. Nurnberg, 1599. 
Svo. 

44. MAISON RUSTIQUE, or THE COUNTRIE EARME, compiled 
in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens and John 
Liebault, doctors of physicke, and translated into 
English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. 
Also A SHORT COLLECTION OF THE HUNTING OF THE 
HART, WILDE BORE, HARE, FOXE, GRAY CONIE, OF 
BIRDS AND FAULCONRIE, the contents whereof are to 
be seen in the page following. London, printed by 
Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton, 1600. 

Another edition MAISON RUSTIQUE, or THE COUNTREY 
FARME, compiled in the French Tongue by Charles 
Stevens and John Liebault, doctors of physicke, and 
translated into English by Richard Surflet ; now newly 
reviewed, corrected, and augmented, with divers large 
additions, out of the works of Serres, his Agriculture, 
Vinet, his Maison Chapestre (French) ; Albyterio in 



22 Ancient Books. 



Spanish, Grilli in Italian, and other authors. And 
the husbandrie of France, Italy, and Spaine, reconciled 
and made to agree with ours here in England, by 
Gervase Markham, the whole contents are in the page 
following (see below). London, by Adam Islip for 
John Bill, 1616. Illustrations. Folio. 

This is the FIRST EDITION edited by Gervase MarMam. 
The following is a summary of the contents : " Whatsoever 
can be required for the building, or good ordering, of a 
Husbandman's House, or Countrey Farrne ; as, namely, to 
foresee the changes and alterations of Times ; to know the 
motions and powers of the Sunne and Moone, upon the things 
about which Husbandry is occupied : as, to cure the sicke 
labouring man, to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all sorts ; 
to DRESSE, PLANT, OR MAKE GARDENS, AS WELL AS FOR THE 
KITCHIN, AND PHYSICKE USE, AS ALSO IN QUACTERS ; WITH 
MANY PAIRE AND CUNNING PORTRAITURES, TO MAKE COM- 
PARTMENTS OP DIVERS FASHIONS IN EYERIE QUARTER : WITH 
A LARGE DESCRIPTION OF THE HEARBE NlCOTIANA (TOBACCO), 
OR PETUM (with a woodcut of tlie plant), as also of the root 
Mechoacan : TO PLANT, GRAFT, AND ORDER ORANGE-TREES, 
Citron-trees, and such other strange trees : TO ORDER BEES : 
TO MAKE CONSERVES : TO PRESERVE FRUITES, Flowers, Roots, 
and Rindes : to make Honey and Wax : TO PLANT AND GRAFT 

ALL SORTS OF FRUIT TREES: TO MAKE CYDER. PERRIE, DRINKE 

OF CERVICES, AND OYLES : TO DISTIL WATERS AND OYLES, or 
Quintessences, of whatsoever the Husbandman's store and 
encrease, with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distilling 
of them : TO FEED AND PRESERVE SILKWORMS : to make and 
maintaine Medow-groundes : FISHPONDS OF RUNNING OR 
STANDING WATERS : TO TAKE FISHES : to measure and tyll 
Corne-ground : TO BAKE BREAD : TO TRIMME VINES : TO 
MAKE MEDICINABLE WINES ; WITH A VERRIE LARGE AND EX- 
CELLENT DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE NATURE AND QUALITIE OF 

WINE IN GENERAL : AND AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SPECIAL AND 
PARTICULAR ONE, OF ALL SUCH WINES as grow in Gasconie, 
Languedoc, Tourainc, Orleans, Paris, and other countries of 
France : to Plant Woods of Timber-trees and Under-growth : 
to make a warren; TO BREED HERONS : AND TO IMPARKE WILD 
BEASTS. As ALSO A LARGE DISCOURSE OF HUNTING THE 
HART, WILD BOKE, HARE, Fox, GRAY CONIE, AND SUCH 

LIKE : WITH THE ORDERING OF HAWKES, AND ALL SORTS OF 

BIRDS, and lastly in the end thereof, is briefly shewed the 
nature, manner of taking, and feeding of the NIGHTINGALE, 
LINNET, GOLDFINCH, SISKIN, LARKE, AND OTHER SUCH SING- 
ING MELODIOUS BIRDS." 



Sixteenth- Century Manuscripts. 23 

The original French edition appeared in 1566, 
founded upon L'AGRICULTURE ET MAISON EUSTIQUE 
of the same author (Charles Estienne), published in 
Paris in 1564, Lyons 1565, and Antwerp 1565, and 
in Paris 1565. A similar book, PKJEDIUM RUSTICUM, 
in Latin, appeared in 1554. Other editions of this 
country encyclopaedia are given by Souhait as follows 
Paris, 1567, 1570, 1570 (Geneva imprint), 1572, 1573, 
1574, 1576, 1578, 1583, 1586 (two editions), 1589, 
1598 (three editions), 1612, 1620, and 1683. Rouen, 
1598 (three editions), 1600, 1602 (three editions), 1608 
(two editions), 1620 (two editions), 1624, 1625 (three 
editions), 1629, 1632, 1641, 1646, 1647, 1655, 1656, 
1658 (three editions), 1664, 1665, 1666 (three editions), 
1668, 1674, 1676 (two editions), 1677, 1685, 1698 
(two editions). Lyons, 1578, 1583, 1584, 1586 (two 
editions), 1590, 1591, 1595, 1597, 1607, 1608, 1610, 
1611, 1628, 1637 (two editions), 1645, 1650, 1653, 
1654, 1655, 1659, 1667, 1680 (two editions), 1686, 
1689, 1698, and 1702. Geneva, 1569. Montluel, 
1572. Luneville, 1577. Cologne, 1695; there was 
also an edition (unidentified) in 1660. In Italian, as 
L' AGRICULTUEA E CASA DI VILLA, it appeared at 
Venice, 1581, 1591, 1668, 1677. Turin, 1582, 1583, 
1590, 1609, 1623. As BUCHER VON DEM FELDBAW in 
German, at Strassburg, 1580 and 1588. In Dutch as 
HOF-STEDE EX LANDT-HUYS. Dordrecht, 1612. The 
numerous editions are accounted for by the publication 
of an appendix, CHASSE AUX LOUPS, almost annually. 



SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS. 

45. ARTILLERIE. Graf Solms. A manuscript in the 
Hesse-Darmstadt Ducal Library. 

46. DDE TRATTI DI ARTIGLIERIA. Two volumes of manu- 
script in the Parmense collection. 



24 Ancient Books. 



47. ISTRUZIONE intorno al modo di preparare le Artiglierie 
Militari. A manuscript formerly in the Royal Library, 
Paris; probably destroyed. 

48. Su' CANNONI. A manuscript in the Vatican collection 
(389 art. 67). 

49. MANUELE. Carlo Giudotti da Mantova. A manual 
for the bombardier, presumed to have been written 
or compiled by the Commandant of Artillery of Lecce 
(Loftredo Lecco). Twenty-three chapters. Vatican 

MSS. 



SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS. 

101. IMPERATORUM Regum atque archiducum . . . quorum 
Arma in Ambrosianse arces armamento conspiciuntur. 
Jac. Schrenck. A very rare work on armour, with 129 
full-length figures of knights in full suits, and useful 
as a sidelight upon the arms of the period. A copy 
is priced by Quaritch at <12 12s. yEnoponti, 1601. 

102. MACCHINE. Achille Tarducci. A treatise on the 
engines of war used against the Hungarians at Vaccia 
in 1597, and in the Transylvanian Campaign of 1600. 
Contains also comparisons of the weapons of the 
ancients with those used in the seventeenth century. 
(Italian.) Ciotti, Venice, 1601 and 1631. 

103. A SPEDIE WAY FOR THE WYNNINGE OF ANY BEEACHE. 
Bound up with a tract on the use of " Cole baules " for 
" fyer " and " some other new and seruisable invensions 
answerable to the tyme." Short, London, 1602. 

104. BELLA CACCIA. Erasmo di Yalvasone. A poem in five 
cantos, written in the sixteenth century, and probably 
first published at Padova in 1593. The compiler's 
copy appears to have been printed at Venice in 1602, 
for F. Bolzetta, of Padova. The title states that the 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 25 

text is "Ricowetta et di incite stanze ainpliata. 
Con le annotation! di M. Olimpio Marcucci." Several 
plates, sporting firearms shown, also pictures of shoot- 
ing with them at boar, deer, etc. 252 pp. text, 40 pp. 
notes, six plates. Venice, 1602. 

105. ISTRUZZIONI DE BoMBARDiERi. Orlcindi. Cited by 
Ayala. Rome, 1602. 4to. 

106. TRATTATO DI SCIENZA D'ARME. Cornelius Agrippa. 
Cited by Rumpf. Venice, 1604. 

107. ELEMENS DE L'ARTILLERIE. Flurance Rivault. Watts 
says this is a rare and curious work. It is mentioned 
by Rumpf, but does not appear in the catalogues of 
the chief general or technical libraries. Paris, 1605. 

108. APPAREIL DBS MACHINES DE GUERRE. (Also known 
as " Forse de Vulcain.") Ch. de Saint Julien. A 

O / 

curious treatise in which is specified a variety of war- 
like engines and arms. It treats also of the materials 
used, and the construction of the machines, their 
appearance, and the effects caused by their proper use. 
Guill. de Voys. The Hague, 1606. Svo. 

109. BRIEFVE INSTRUCTION SUR LE FAICT DE L'ARTILLERIE 
DE FRANCE. Daniel Davelcourt. An account of French 
cannon and a treatise on gunnery. Paris, 2nd edition, 
1608. Svo. 

110. L'ARCENCAL DE LA MILICE FRANCAISE. " Fiimee." 
Paris, 1608. 

111. MANIEMENT DARMES; d'arquebuses, mousquets et 
piques, en conforrnite du Prince Maurice d'Orange. 
Jacob de Gheyn. The Hague, 1608. Folio. 

112. ARCENAL ET MAGASIN DE L'ARTILLERIE. D. Davel- 
court. Contains also the " Brieve Instruction," which 
see ante. Paris, 1610. 8vo. 

113. ISTRUTTIONE oARTiGLiERi. D'ayalo Santo Ajello. 
The instructions give the practice usual in the kingdom 
of Sicily at the time. Palermo, 1610, Svo; another 
edition in 4to in 1689. 



26 Ancient Books. 



114. RECHERCHES ET CONSIDERATIONS SUR LE FAICT DE 
L'ARTILLERIE. D. Davelcourt. Also the "Epitome 
ou abregee, contenant maximes, etc." A rare treatise 
on the artillery of the French. Napoleon I. is said 
to have sought in vain for a copy. An incomplete 
copy sold at the Laing sale for 1 10s. Quaritch 
prices a copy at <5 5s. Paris, 1610, 1619, five vols., 
sometimes bound as one. 12mo. 

115. NOBLE ARTE OF VENERIE. Paris, 1611. 4to. 

116. ARTILLERIA. Diego Ufano. This treatise on the 
artillery used in Flanders has been extensively copied, 
and served as a basis for the works of Hancelet, 
Siemenowicz, Saint Remy, and some English writers. 
The first edition appears to have been published at 
Brussels in 1612 or 1613, a second, also in Spanish, at 
Brussels in 1617. In 1614 French and German edi- 
tions were published at Frankfort by Theo. de Bry, also 
Zutphen, 1621, and Rouen, 1628. It was Englished 
by Eldred (q.v.\ and in 1643 a Polish translation by 
J. Deckau was published at Lesznie. Usually folio in 
three parts, about 179 pp. 

117. BUCHSENMEISTEREI. Zuebler. Geometrical gunnery : 
a manual of instruction for Artillerymen. Zurich, 
1614. 4to. 

118. BucHSENMEiSTEREi-CoaiPENDiUM. A cyclopaedia of 
gunnery. Strasburg, 1616. 8vo. 

119. LONDON'S ARTILLERY. R. Niccols. 

120. RECHERCHES ET CONSIDERATIONS SUR LE FAICT DE 
L'ARTILLERIE. D. Davelcourt. A work on experi- 
mental and theoretical gunnery. Paris, 1617. In Svo. 

121. ARCHILEN-KRIEGS KUNST. V. Wallhausen. The 
Art of War (German). Hanau, 1617. Folio. 

122. CACCIA. Poeina heroico. Alessandro Gatti. An 
epic poem on the chase. Italian blank verse. Printed 
in London. (?) Imprint, Gio Billio, London, 1619. Svo. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 27 

123. GESCHUSS UND FEUERWERK. Theo. de Bry. Given by 
Rumpf ; is probably a later edition of Ufano. V. 
sujjra, anno 1613. Frankfort, 1619. 

124. DISSERTATIO DE BOMBARDS. Besoldi, 1620. Given 
by Rumpf. 

125. KRIEGS UND ARCHILLEN KUNST. Ruscelli. A trans- 
lation of "Percetti della Militia Moderna," Part I. 
(German.) Frankfort, 1620. 

126. WAFFENHANDLUNG DER MUSKETEN UND PIKEN. 
Isselburg. A book of drill and military practice. 
(German.) Nurnberg, 1620. 4to. 

127. WAFFENHANDLUNG VON DEN ROHREN, MUSKETEN, 
UND SPIESSEN. Jacob de Gheyn. See No. Ill, supra. 

128. ARTIGLIERIA. Pietro Sardi. Italian romance, 
divided into three books. G. Guerrigli, Venice, 1621. 
Folio. 

128. EDITS, ETC., AUGMENTES DES ORDONNANCES DU Roi 
HENRI, SUR LE PORT D' ARQUEBUSES. This compilation 
was made by M. Durand. Cramoisy, Paris, 1621. In 
8vo. 

130. OPLOMACHIA. A treatise on the manner of using 
arms. (Spanish.) Siena, 1621. 

131. TRAITE D'ARTILLERIE. Diego Ufano. A translation 
from the Spanish, published at Zutphen, 1621, Rouen, 
1628, and in German, at Frankfort, in 1621. V. supra, 
anno 1613. 

132. ESSAY DES MERVEILLES DE NATURE. (Etienne Binet) 
Rene Francois. A cyclopaedia of little interest ; has a 
few pages on arms and sports. (French.) Twelve 
editions published, 1621 1726. Osmont, Rouen, 1622. 
4to. 

133. DlSCOURS VON DER ARTILLERIE. SchwacllU. Is 

said to be a copy of Ufano. Dresden, 1624. 4to 



28 Ancient Books. 



134. BREVE TRATTATO D'ALCUNE INVENTION! CHE soxo 

STATE FATTE PER RINFORZARE E RADDOPPIARE EL TIRI 

DEGLI ARCHIBUIGI E MOSCHETTi. Giulano Bossi. This 
book, which apparently existed in manuscript in 1616, 
is one of the most important dealing with ancient 
gunmaking, giving as it does minute particulars, more 
especially with reference to double guns. Bossi was 
an Italian inventor, who resided for some years in the 
Netherlands, and is believed to have made gun-making 
his profession. An author of several pamphlets treating 
of arms. (Italian.) G. Verdussen. Antwerp, 1625. 
In 12mo. 

135. KRIEGS MUNITIONS UND ARTILLERIE BUCH. Ammon. 
Frankfort, 1625. 

136. ORDONNANCE ET PLACCART . . . sur le port des 
Arquebuzes. (French.) Bruxelles, 1625. 

137. SOLDIERS' ACCIDENCE. Gervase Markham. An intro- 
duction to military discipline, for Infantrie, Foote 
Bandes, Cavalry, and Horse Troopes. Bellamy, 
London, 1625. 4to, 66 pp. 

138. TRATTATO CINEGETICO. Fr. Birago. A rare tract 
on sport. (Italian.) B. Bidelli. Milan, 1626. 
18 pp. (one blank). 

139. HALANITRO-PYROBOLIA. Josephus Furttenbach. A 
new art of gunnery, pyrotechny, and treatise on the 
manufacture of saltpetre. V. infra, anno 1643. Ulm, 
1627. Folio. 

140. GUNNER. Robert Norton. Showing the whole 
practice of artillerie, with all the appurtenances there- 
unto belonging, together with the making of artificial 
fireworks. Wrote also "Historie of Queen Elizabeth," 
and published revised or annotated editions of Stevin's 
"Disme, or Art of Tenths"; Bourne's "Gunner's 
Dialogue," 1643; Digge's "Art of Great Artillery," 
1624. H. Robinson, London, 1628. Folio. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 29 

. ORDER. The effect of certain branches of the Statute 
made in anno 33 Henry VIII., treating the main- 
tenance of artillerie, and the punishment of such as 
use unlawful games, to be put in execution by order 
from the King's Majestie. London (black letter), 
1621. S. sh. folio. 

142. WHOLE ART OF GUNNERY. Sir John Smith. The 
writer of the Bow and Musket controversy. London, 
1628. 4to. 

143. TREATISE OF ARTIFICIALL FIREWORKS ; both for 
Warres and Recreation. Francis Malthus. A trans- 
lation from the French. Hawkins, London, 1629. Svo. 

144. DlSSERTATIO DI BELLI FULMINE LANGREANO, QUO 

PLURES ORDINE ET DISTINCTO INCENDIO, GLOBI EX UNO 
EODEMAQUE TORMENTO EXPLODUNTUR. An account of 

a wonderful invention in pyrotechny ; a destructive 
bomb for use with mortars. Bruxelles, 1630. 
Pamphlet. 

145. MYSTERIES OF NATURE. John Bate. A treatise in 
four parts, of which the second deals with " fyer- 
workes." T. Harper, for R. Mab. London, 1634 and 
1635. 4to. 

146. ORIGEN Y DIGNIDAD DE LA GAZA. D. Juan Mateos. 
A first-class book treating fully of arms for sporting 
purposes, and illustrated with numerous woodcuts. 
Is one of the best books for details of the construction 
of antique sporting guns. (Spanish.) Madrid, 1634. 
1 vol. 4to. 

147. PYROTECHNICA, or a discourse in Artificial Fire- 
works, whereunto is added a treatise of Geometry. 
John Bdbington (a gunner). In three parts. London. 
1635. Folio. 

148. PARALLELA HOROSCOPA, SEU DE DIRECTIONS TORMEN- 
TORUM. An anonymous treatise on ballistics and the 
science of gunnery; the first book on the subject 
printed in Poland. (Latin.) Vilna, 1636. 4to. 



30 Ancient Books. 



143. PYROTECHNIE. Lorrain Hazelet. The secrets of 

machines and of artificial fireworks. , 1636. 

4to. 

150. DISCOURS sur les machines des victoires et con- 
quetes. Douet. Paris, 1637. In 12mo. 

151. DIRECTIONS FOR MUSTERS. Wherein is showed the 
order of drilling for the musket and pike ... set 
forth in pictures, with the words of command and 
brief instructions for the right use of the same. T. 
Buck and R. Daniels, Cambridge, 1638. 4to. 

152. MARTYR'D SOULDIER. Henry Shirley. A Tragedy 
in five acts and in verse; edited by I. K. J. Okes, 
London, 1638. 4to. 

153. COMPLEAT CANNONIERE, or THE GUNNER'S GUIDE, 
by John Roberts. The author of a tract, entitled 
" Great Yarmouth's exercise, in a very compleat and 
marshall manner, performed by their Artillerymen," 
published in 1 638, of which this book is apparently an 
enlargement. The author is described as a gentleman 
of Bath. J. Okes, London, 1639. 4to. 

154. SCOLARE BOMBARDIERE. Alex. Chincherni. A 
manual of instruction for the gunner. (Italian.) G. 
Gironi, Ferrara, 1640. In Svo. 

155. LA CACCIA DELL,' ARCOBUZIO. Cap. Vita Bonfadini. 
One of the earliest books on sport with firearms. 
Marolles drew from it for his " Essai." (Italian.) 
First appeared at Bologna, 1640. Other editions : 
Ferrini, Bologna, 1641; Milan, 1647-8; Ferrara, 
1652; Bologna, 1672; Venice, 1691; Bologna, 1729; 
Bologna and Bassano, no date. See No. 175. 

156. ARTE FABRILE. Ant. Petrini. A treatise on the 
useful arts by a Florentine master. Deals particularly 
with the nature of metals ; various inventions relating 
to arms ; the duties of a bombardier. Various editions 
have different titles. (Italian and Latin.) Florence, 
1641, or earlier. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 31 

157. ARTE MILITAKE. Gio. Bait. Colombina. A manual for 
the soldier, with particulars of Artillery and instructions 
for its use. The first edition of this book, from the 
press of M. Antonio, Trevigi, 1608, is exceedingly rare; 
a second edition is said to have appeared at Venice in 
1617. See " Arte della Guerra." (Italian.) Guinti, 
Venice, 1641. In 4to. 

158. PRACTICA DI ARTIGLERIA. E. Gentilini. See supra, 
No. 31. Venice, 1641. 

159. PRACTYKE DEE BOSSCIIIETERYE. Wilhelm Claesz van 
Utrecht. A manual in the Netherlands vernacular 
for the artilleryman. (Dutch.) Rotterdam, 1641 ; 
Utrecht, 1659 ; and Amsterdam, 1695 and 1696. 

160. PRATICA MODERNA DELL' ARTIGLIERIA. Luigi Collado. 
See ante, No. 19. (Italian.) Milan, 1641. 

161. MANEGGIO DELL' ARMI MODERNO. Galezzo Gualdo 
Priorato. A small handbook on the use of arms, 
and manual training for soldiers. (Italian.) Vicenza, 
1642. 12mo. 

162. TRADADO DE ARTILLERIA. Lazaro de la Isla. Lisbon, 
1642. 

163. BUCHSENMEISTERIE ScHULE. J. Furtenbach. The 
School for Gunners, by the author of " Halynitro- 
pyrobolia," or Particulars of Gunnery, published at 
Ulma in 1627. This treatise was published at Frank- 
fort in 1643. (German.) 

164. MILITARY DISCIPLINE, or THE YOUNG ARTILLERYMAN. 
Captain W. Barriffe. London, 1643, 3rd edition. 
Small 4to. 

165. ARTE DE BALLESTERIA Y MONTERIA. Alenzo Martinez 
del Espinar. The treatise from which Marolles drew 
his information of gunmaking in Spain. Madrid, 
1 vol. 4to, 1644. Last edition 1761. 



32 Ancient Books. 



166. BALLISTICA ET ANCONTISMOLOGIA IN QUA SAGITTAEUM 
JACULORUM ET ALIORUM MISSILIUM JACTUS ET ROBUR 
ARCUUM EXPLICATUR. Merseuni. A treatise on exter- 
nal ballistics and the science of gunnery. Paris, 1644. 

167. DE MOTU GRAVIUM ET NATURALITER PROJECTORUM, 

Torricelli. Florence, 1644. 4to. 

168. LECCIONES DE ARTILLERIA. T. de Cerda. Madrid, 
1644. 

169. NOUVELLE FORTIFICATION. W. Goldman. A pretty 
book, illustrated with numerous plates, of no particular 
value apart from its form. Elzevir, Leyden, 1645. 

170. GUNNER'S GLASSE, set forth by way of dialogue 
between an experienced gunner and a scholler, with 
tables of randomes, whereunto is annexed a part of 
the excellent work of Diago Uffans. William Eldred. 
Practically a translation from the Spanish of Diego 
Ufano. London, January 16, 1646, O.S. 4to. 

171. ARS MAGNA ARTILLERIA. Casimir Siemenowicz. A 
standard work on the art of war. The contents will 
be given in the account of the English translation 
published 1729. Early editions are rare. Folio, with 
plates, Amsterdam (Latin text), 1650, (French) 1651, 
(Italian) 1651. A translation by Daniel Elrich into 
German, published at Frankfort in 1676, and same 
year and place a translation by Noiset. 

172. COMPLETE BODY OF THE ART MILITARY. Richard 
Elton. 3 parts. London, 1650, fol., and 1654. 

173. POLVORA. Maria Afflito. The treatises of this 
Spanish General are known as " Muniendarum urbium 
methodus modernus, de munitione et fortificatione, 
b. 2" (Bib. Magliabechiana, MS. of 1650). The 
more important is " De igne et ignivomis," 1661 
(see Dormer) : cap. 5 treats of " belico pulvere," cap. 6 
" pyrobolis ac borubis." See infra, " Breve Trattato," 
No. 241. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 33 

174. PRATIQUE DE LA GUERRE. Malthus. A treatise in 
French concerning the use of artillery, bombs, mortars, 
artificial fireworks, petards, mines, bridges, earth- 
works, etc., etc. Paris, 1650. 

175. CACCIA DELL' ARCOBUGIO. Captain Vita Bonfadini. 
A treatise on the vise of firearms for sporting purposes 
and the art of shooting in the wing, together with a 
lot of miscellaneous information for the use of sports- 
men. A clever little work with wonderful illustrations 
of arms, showing the various bores and how to gauge 
them with fingers and thumb, of powder and shot 
measures, of a pistol candlestick invented by the author 
for the use of students, and some curious information 
concerning the manufacture of firearms, gunpowder 
and shot. Dedicated to Benedetto Macciavelli ; has a 
laudatory poem on the Arqubus, by Mariscotti, and 
one by Carlo Possenti on the invention of powder. 
Giuseppe Gironi, Ferrara, 1652. Small 12mo, 102 pp. 

176. TRACTATUS DE ARMIS. Joh. de Bado Anreo (Rumpf). 
Ed. Bessaei. London, 1654. 

177. TRATADO DE LA GAZA DEL BRELO. Fernando Tamariz 
de la Escaler. A treatise on the use of the Arcubus 
for sporting purposes given in ten chapters, viz. : 
I. General rules. II. On the management of the 
Arcubus. III. On loading the weapon. IV. Loading 
for special purposes. V. Shot-gun shooting. VI. 
Rules to be observed in the field. VII. Game seasons. 
VIII. Habits of game. IX. Hints to shooters. X. 
Final directions. Laus Deo, and an appendix on the 
setting dog and how to use it. Title, |-title, 4 pp. ; 
dedication, authorisation, 1 p. ; and address to the 
reader, 4 pp. 31 pp. text. Madrid, 1654. 12mo. 

178. SECRET SHOOTING of the wicked reproved. James 
Naylor. The incoherences of a lunatic Quaker. 
London, 1655. Folio. 

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34 Ancient Books. 



179. BUCHSENMEISTER DiscouRS. Schreiber. A dialogue 
on the art of gunnery, etc., and a treatise of military 
fireworks (German). Brieg, 1656. Folio. 

180. OIL DU CANNON, ou la mire Fran9aise. CheviUard. 
Paris, 1657. 

181. FORTH MILITARIA, cum imaginibus instrumentorum 
projectorum. Amsterdam, 1660. 

182. PLUSIEURS MODELS des plus Nouvelles Manieres qui 
sont en usage en Fart d'arquibuzerie. Jacqui/net, 
Specimens of firearms and the manner in which they 
are ornamented, by a Paris artisan. Only one copy 
known ; but see No. 1038, for particulars of Quaritch's 
reprint. Paris, 1660. Folio, plates. 

183. COMPLEAT CANONEER. Anonymous. Showing the 
principles and grounds of the art of gunnery, as also 
of fireworks for sea and land. London, 1661. 

184. BUSSCHIETERY KONST. F. van Zedlitz. A gunner's 
manual in the Netherlands vernacular. Amsterdam, 
1662. 12mo. The same treatise in German. Frank- 
fort, 1676. 12mo. 

185. REAL CAZA DE VOLATERIA. Joseph de Xibaja and 
Diego de Morales. An official publication. Madrid, 
1664. Folio, 22 pp. 

186. BERICHT VON GESCHUTZ. Breslau, 1666. 

187. TRAIT DES BLESSURES. Pierre Daitty. A surgeon's 
book treating of the nature of wounds caused by 
firearms. (French.) Paris, 1668. 

188. ARTILLEREN UND ZEUGWARTING. Heidelberg, 1669. 
Folio. 

189. INSTRUCTION SUR LE FAIT DE L'ARTILLERIE. Coehorn. 
Paris, 1633, 1669. 12mo. 



Seventeenth- Century Books. 35 

190. ART OF GUNNERY. Nathaniel Nye. This treatise is 
composed for the help of all such gunners and others 
that have charge of Artillery, and are not well versed 
in arithmetick and geometry. Nye was master gunner 
of the city of Worcester ; he gives in his treatise an 
account of the firearms made at Bromsgrove, of testing 
coulverines at Deriton, and an illustrated description 
of a powder tester, very different to the common 
eprouvette. Also treats of the manufacture of gun- 
powder and nitre and of artificial fireworks. W. Leak, 
London, 1647, 1648, 1670. 8vo, plates. 

1 91. VESTIBULUM PYROBOLIA, SIVE COMPENDIUM ARTILLERLE. 
Sigismund Kestner. The author of this treatise on the 
elements of gunnery was an officer in the Danish 
Artillery. (Latin.) Frankfort, 1671-9. Folio. 

192. DELICL*: CRANACHIAN^;. Ulrich von Cranach. A 
description of unique war engines, weapons and 
devices the invention of the author. (Latin.) Ham- 
burg, 1672. Folio. 

193. HOLLANDTSCKE BuRGERY in ruste . . . vervat in een 
Schuyt-Praetjen tusschen een Domine Politick Militair 
en Borger. A political rather than a military treatise. 
Amsterdam, 1672. 4to. 

194. MILITARY AND MARITIME DISCIPLINE. Captain Thos. 
Venn. Book I., Tactics; IT., Military Architecture; 
III., The Compleat Gunner. London, 1672. Folio. 

195. TRATTATO DELL' ARTIGLIERIA. Moretti. Venice, 1665. 
Brescia, 1672. 

196. VENERIE ROYALE. An account of the hunting 
establishment, etc., of the French Kings. Paris, 
1672. 2 vols., 18mo. 

197. CACCIA DEL SCHIOPPO. Nicola Spadoni. A treatise 
on sport with the arqubus, together with descriptions 
of the various firearms used for sporting purposes and 
directions for using them, Driven in 74 letters of 



36 Ancient Books. 



instruction, necessary to the making of a valiant and 
expert shot with the gun. G. Longhi, Bologna, 1673. 
Small 12mo, 93 pp., and one sheet of illustrations of 
guns and gun parts. Rare. 

198. GENERAL USE AND EFFECT OF GUNNES. Robert 
Anderson. Contains particulars of experiments and 
tables of projection, exactly calculated by T. Streete. 
2 parts. London, 1674. 4 to. See also infra, Nos. 
226, 229, 232. 

199. TKAITE DBS ARMES, DBS MACHINES DE GUERRE. 
Louis de Gaya. A short account of the arms used in 
the French Army, together with a short history of 
other arms, French, Roman, etc. The author gives 
precise particulars as to the size of muskets, carbines, 
etc., the number of rifled arms to others, qualities of 
matchlocks and firelocks ; and states that he saw an 
air-gun tried in France. The book has 20 plates of 
illustrations. S. Cramorsey, Paris, 1678, pp. 1-4 and 
1-172, in 12mo. For an English edition see infra, 
205. 

200. ARCHERIE REVW'D, or the Bow-Man's Excellence. 
An heroick poem. Robert Shotterel and Thos. Durfey. 
Exhorting all brave spirits to the banishment of vice, 
by the use of so noble and healthful an exercise. 

"Let Gunners with our Archers now joyn hands. 

Our Frontiers guarded well with Guns and Bows, 
Whose strong contracted power would dare alarms, 
And conquest win, though Hell rose up in Arms ." 

Roycroft. London, 1676. 

201. HISTORY OF BIRDS. F. Willoghbceus. A book on 
natural history; but there is a rare edition of 1678, 
having as an appendix a treatise on the " Arts of 
fowling, falconry, and ordering of fishing birds," by 
John Ray. Several editions in Dutch were published 
at Amsterdam. The original treatise is in Latin, the 
edition of 1678 in English. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 37 

202. DIALOGUS DE ARTE ARTILLERIA. Jes. Dietrich. 
Whereby you are taught what a good gunner should 
know. (Latin.) Nurnberg, 1679. 12mo. 

203. DOPPI ARCHIBUGI A RUOTA. G. Bossi. A brief 
treatise on the double wheel-lock gun, the invention of 
G. Bossi, of Rome. A small work of 22 pp. (Italian.) 
Paris, 1679. 

204. WlSSENSCHAFT UND VERRICHTUNGEN EINES BuCHSEN- 

MEISTERS. Eisenkramer. Ulm, 1679. 12mo. 

205. TREATISE OF THE ARMS AND ENGINES OF WAR, OF 
FIREWORKS, ENSIGNS AND MILITARY INSTRUMENTS, 
both Ancient and Modern, WITH THE MANNER THEY 
ARE AT PRESENT USED, as well in French Armies as 
amongst other Nations, enriched with many figures, 
written originally in French, by Lowis cle Gaya, author 
of the Treatise called the Art of War, translated for 
Publick Advantage. This is a translation of L. de 
Gaya's " Traite des Arrnes " ; it is prefaced by a 
number of instructions (31 pp.) upon the drilling and 
ordering of troops, and its title is " English Military 
Discipline, or the way of exercising Horse and Foot 
according to the practice of the time, with a Treatise, 
etc." It is generally found bound with " The Art of 
War." Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhill, 
London, 1680, pp. 1, 31 and 143, 20 plates. Svo. 

206. COMPLEAT SOLDIER, or expert Artilleryman. The 
several postures and exercises of the Pike and Musquet. 
E. Rawlings. Treats of drill and military manoeuvres, 
words of command, etc., etc. Sawbridge, London, 
1681. 12mo, 240 pp. 

207. BESCHRYWINGE VAN DE ARTILLERIE. T. Nelson Brinck. 
Gravenhaag (The Hague). 1681, 1699. 8vo. 

208. FUNDAMENTUM ET PRAXIS ARTILLERIES. Braun. In 

six parts, Dantzig, 1682, 1687. Folio. 



38 Ancient Books. 



209. THEORIA ET PRAXIS ARTILLERY. Bucklers. A 
treatise on the firearms in actual use. In three parts, 
Nurnberg, 1682, 1690. Folio. 

210. GENERAL TREATISE ON ARTILLERY. Sir Jonas More's 
translation from the Italian of T. Moretti. An 
edition appeared in 1689 which was bound up with a 
work on "Fortification" and Sir A. Dager's "Artificial 
Fireworks." Neither of the publications are of excep- 
tional value. London, 1683. 

211. MARINER'S MAGAZINE contains the art of Gunnery 
and Artificial Fireworks, by Colson. London, 1684. 

212. ESAME DE BOMBISTI. Sigismondo Albergetti de 
Venezia. By the author of several works on Artillery : 
see NOVA ARTILLERIA. (Italian.) V. Pinelli, Venice, 
1685. In 12mo. 

213. GUNNERY EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH. John Greaves 
or Gravius. A contribution to the Transactions of 
the Philosophical Society. London, 1685. 

214. HANDBUCHLEIN UBER DIE BUCHSENMEISTEREI. 
Eugenii. (German.) Augsburg, 1685. 12mo. 

215. KOMPENDIUM DER ARTiLLERiE. Winkrat. Inspruck, 
1685. 12mo. 

216. GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION. An encyclopsedic work in 
two divisions: the first treats of Heraldry, Music, Paint- 
ing, the Fine Arts, etc. ; the second of Horsemanship, 
Deer, Fox and Hare Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, 
Fowling and Shooting, Cock Fighting, etc. It is 
illustrated with numerous plates. This book was one 
of the first of a long series of " publisher's books " sold 
on subscription and rarely worth the money asked for 
them. Bibliographers give Blome a bad character, 
declare that he derived from other authors and 
publishers what he published as his own, and that his 
writings are unreliable and his illustrations coarse and 
cheap. The chapters on Shooting are short, and their 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 39 

contents insignificant. The plates deserve no praise. 
The first edition is worth =6 if clean, subsequent 
editions much less. See also " The Complete Sports- 
man." Richard Blome, London, 1686, folio; and later 
under various titles. 

217. DISCOURSE CONCERNING GRAVITY, and its property, 
its influence on Gunnery. See Transactions Philo- 
sophical Society Abridgments, vol. iii., p. 261. 

218. -EXPERIMENTS IN SHOOTING. Nicholas Papin. A 
contribution to the Transactions of the Philosophical 
Society. See their Abridgments, vol. iii., p. 273. 
London, 1686. 

219. ORDONNANCE DU ROY. Concerning the proofs of 
powder. (French.) Versailles, 1686. 

220. EXPERIMENT FOR IMPROVING THE ART OF GUNNERY. 
Sir R. Moray (or Murray). See Transactions of the 
Philosophical Society Abridgments, 1688. 

221. TRAITE DE VENERIE. D'Yauville. Premier Veneur, 
et ancient Commandant de la Venerie du Roi. The 
royal hunts described, nothing to do with shooting. 
Paris, de 1'Imprimerie Royale, 1688, in 4to, 12 and 
415 pages, and 41 engraved sheets of music. Reprinted 
in 1859 by Journal des Chasseurs. 

222. CHARACTER OF A GOOD COMMANDER, with an eulogium 
upon the London Artillery, and an encomium on the 
Duke of Brandenburgh. Thos. Plunket. London, 
1689, 4to. 

223. COMPLETE SPORTSMAN, OR COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S 
RECREATION. Thomas Fairfax. Contains the whole 
Arts of BREEDING AND MANAGING GAME COCKS, with 
the BEST METHOD OF FIGHTING THEM, of Rearing and 
Backing Colts, of Managing Race Horses, Hunters, 
&c., of HORSE-RACING, of BOWLING, of HARE HUNTING, 
of Fox HUNTING, of Buck Hunting, of Otter Hunting, 



40 Ancient Books. 



of COUESING, of Breeding and Ordering Dogs for the 
Gun or Chase, &c. ; of ANGLING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, 
of Breeding Pigeons, Rabbits, Canary Birds, &c. ; of 
Finding the Haunts of Partridges, Pheasants, and all 
Manner of Game ; of Shooting and of Shooting Flying, 
&c., together with several other equally curious articles 
too numerous to be mentioned in this Title-page. See 
supra, anno 1686. J. Cook. London, n.d. (1689). 
8vo, plate. 

224. LIGHT TO THE ART OF GUNNERY. Sunning. Wherein 
is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof 
and action ; also the true allowance for wind, with 
conclusions for the Practice of Gunnery in Sea and 
Land Service. London, 1689. 4to. 

225. INSTRUCTION POUR LES GENS DE GUERRE. Gautier. 
A treatise on Artillery, bombs, grenades and grenade 
throwing, &c. (French.) Paris, 1690-92. 12mo. 

226. To HIT A MARK as well upon an ascent and descent 
as upon the plain of the horizon experimentally 
and mathematically demonstrated. Robert Anderson. 
London, 1690. 

227. TRAITE DE L'ARTILLERIE. (Rumpf.) Lyons, 1690. 
12mo. 

228. INSTRUTTIONE DEL BOMBARDIERO. G. B. Colomberini. 
In the form of a dialogue between captain and pupil. 
A small and unimportant brochure. (Italian.) D. 
Amadio, Vicenza, 1691. In 4to. 

229. CUT THE RIGGING, and proposals for the improve- 
ment of great artillery. Robert Anderson. London, 

1691. 4to. 

230. NOUVELLE INSTRUCTION pour les gardes des eaux et 
forets, chasses et peches. An old manual for game- 
keepers and woodmen. (French.) Charpentier, Paris, 

1692, 206 pp. 



Seventeenth-Century Books. 41 

231. HANDBUCHLEIN UBER DIE BUCHSENMEISTERIE. Edel. 
Augsburg, 1693. 12mo. 

232. MAKING OF ROCKETS, in two parts, experimentally 
and mathematically demonstrated. Robert Anderson, 
London, 1696. 8vo. 

233. SCHOOL OF RECREATION, or a guide to the most 
ingenious exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fire- 
works, Military Discipline, Science of Defence, Hawk- 
ing, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cockfighting, 
Fowling, Angling. R[obert] [Hewlett]. The shooting 
with the Harqubus is treated in one short paragraph, 
and the sport is illustrated in one of the six divisions 
of the plate forming frontispiece. H. Rhodes, London, 

1696. 12mo, 182 pp. 

234. GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION. Nicholas Cox. Apparently 
four parts, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, and Fishing, 
from Blome's book (see supra, No. 216). It was 
published in 8vo, with plates in 1697, and another 
edition in 1721. 

235. MEMOIRES D'ARTILLERIE. Saint Remy. Artillery 
practice on sea and land ; a much overrated work, 
based on Siernenowicz and Yalturius. Paris, 2 vols. 
4to, 16971707. Amsterdam, 1702. 

236. TH' EXPERIENC'D FOWLER. Containing the art of 
taking fowl with nets, etc. Illustrated. London, 

1697. 18mo. 

237. BESCHREIBUNG . . . BUCHSENMEISTERIE. George 
Schreiber. A treatise on a new method of gunnery. 
(German.) Breslau, no date. 4to. 

238. GRUNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON DER ARTILLERIE. 
Coehorn. A translation from the Dutch into German. 
Hamburg, 1699. 

239. NOVA ARTIGLERIA VENETA ICTIBUS PROPELLENS. S. 
Alberyhetti. A posthumous work published in 1699 



42 Ancient Books. 



and 1703 in Latin and in Italian at Venice. Codice 
della Marciana (Class VII., No. DXXII.). " Sigis- 
mundus Alb., novse artillerise inventor et ex Anglia 
redux, obiit MDCOII." 

240. PERFETTO BOMBARDIERO Y ARTILLERO. Sebas. Ferd. 
de Medrano. Bruxelles, 1699. 8vo. 

241. TRATTATO D'ARTIGLIERIA. Treats also of sword blades 
and the barrels of muskets. Is an Italian MS. of the 
17th century (codice della Magliabechiania, classe IX., 
No. 80). 

242. UNTERRICHT VON DER ARTILLERIE. Peirander. 
Hamburg, 1699. 

243. INTORNO AL FONDERE DELLE ARTIGLIERIE. Leonardo 
da Vinci. A MS. consisting of 108 pp. in 8vo, said to 
have some illustrations on the margins by the author's 
hand. Much unintelligible according to Ayala. 



EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS. 

251. SCHOOL OF RECREATION, or a Guide to the Most 
Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, 
Fireworks, Military Discipline, the Science of Defence, 
Hawking, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cock- 
fighting, Fowling, etc. London, 1710, 1732. 12mo. 

252. FISHING AND HUNTING : The Art and Cunning of 
Hunting the Hart, Stag, Hare, Fox, Otter, Wild Goat, 
etc., the Art of Fishing and sundry curious baits, viz., 
Worms, Flies, Pastes, etc. T. Bailey. London, 1720. 
8vo, pamphlet. 

253. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S VADE MECUM. Jacob Giles. 
A compilation by a well-known "bookmaker." London, 
1717, 12mo. 



Eighteenth-Century English Books. 43 

254. COMPLETE SPORTSMAN. Another compilation by J. 
Giles, who also published in 1740 a compilation of game 
laws, and list of statutes relative to game licences, etc. 
The " Complete Sportsman " appeared in 1718. 

255. POEM. PLERYPLEGIA, or the Art of Shooting Flying. 
Abraham Markland, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster. 
London, 1727, 4to. 

256. GREAT ART OF ARTILLERY. Casimir Simienowicz. 
Translated from the French by G. S. Shelvock. The 
translator states that the book in the original or any 
Latin edition could not be procured, so he was forced 
to translate from the French edition (Amsterdam, 
1661), which he complains "is now grown very obscure 
and obsolete ... it is the most carelessly printed 
book I ever saw." It was compared with a German 
edition (Frankfort, 1676). This book was for long the 
standard work on artillery. It contains : Book I., 
xiii. ch. on the calibre; Book II., xxxii. ch. concerning 
pyrotechnics; Book III., x. ch. on rockets; Book IV., 
pt. 1, iv. ch. on Fire globes or balls, pt. 2, xix. ch. 
Military fire-balls ; Book V., Warlike Firearms, 2 
parts, xiii. and x. ch. Tonson, London, 1729. Folio, 
404 pp., 23 copper plates. See No. 171. 

257. TREATISE ON GUNNERY. John G-rai/, F.R.S., of 
Carthagena. London, 1731, 1781. Svo. 

258. NEW PRINCIPLES OF GUNNERY. Containing the 
determination of the force of gunpowder, and an 
investigation of the difference in the resisting power 
of the air to swift and slow motions. Benjamin 
Robins, F.R.S. This book is epoch - making, and 
probably no book dealing with firearms is better 
known or so frequently quoted ; its principles were 
accepted generally, and the work was recognised as 
the standard authority for many years. Nourse, 
London, 1742. Svo, pp. Ivii, 95, 1 plate. 



44 Ancient Books. 



259. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, OR SPORTSMAN'S 
DICTIONARY. London, 2 vols. 4to, 1744; in 12mo, 1755 ; 
an edition in 8vo, Dublin, 1756. 

260. LIGHT TO THE ART OF GUNNERY ; or Sea Gunner's 
Companion. . . . with the most necessary conclu- 
sions for the Practice of Gunnery, either in land or sea 
service. Captain Thomas Binning, mariner. London, 
1744. Small 4to, 114 pp., 2 plates, tables, diagrams. 

261. DOCTRINE OF PROJECTILES : Demonstrated and 
applied to the most useful problems in practical 
gunnery. William Starrat. Published by subscription 
and dedicated to the Fellows of Trinity College, 
Dublin. Has list of subscribers. Dublin, 1746. Svo, 
pp. xii, 176, 4 plates. 

262. ATTACK AND DEFENCE OF FORTIFIED PLACES. John 
Midler. The first of a number of technical books 
by a "Professor of Artillery and Fortification." 
London, 1747. Svo, 3 parts. 

263 PRACTICAL SEA-GUNNER'S COMPANION. An intro- 
duction to the Art of Gunnery. William Mountain, 
F.R.8. Might be more aptly named a Treatise on 
Arithmetic -and Elementary Mathematics. Is based 
on Povey and Binning. Rumpf gives date as 1747. 
London, 1747, 1750, 1781 ; 127 pp. The 1781 edition 
has addenda, 7 pp., plates and figures. 

264. POEM. COMPLEAT MARKSMAN. Hon. R. Coote. On 
the art of shooting flying. London, 1755. 8vo. 

265. TREATISE ON THE PRACTICAL PART OF FORTIFICA- 
TION. John Mutter. A work written "for the use of 
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich." London, 1755, 
Svo, 28 copper plates. 

266. EASY INTRODUCTION to Practical Gunnery, or the 
Art of Engineering. Francis Holliday. A work on 



Eighteenth-Century English Books. 45 

ballistics, by a Professor of Mathematics, the author 
of numerous works in Arithmetic, Geometry, etc. 
Innys and Richardson, London, 1756. Svo, xv and 
173 pp., plates. 

267. TREATISE ON ARTILLERY. John Mutter. Contains : 
1, General construction of brass and iron guns used 
by the sea and land forces, and of their carriages ; 2, 
General construction of mortars, howitzers, their beds 
and carriages ; 3, The dimensions of all kinds of 
carriages used in the artillery ; 4, The exercise of the 
regiment abroad ; 5, March and encampment, ammu- 
nition stores and horses ; 6, The necessary laboratory 
work. To which is prefixed a theory of powder applied 
to firearms. Appeared in 1757. Afterwards published 
with an appendix or supplement. London, 1757, 
1768. Svo. 

268. ART OF SHOOTING FLYING. T. Page. A dialogue 
between a gunmaker and his pupil ; gives some 
curious particulars of guns and gunmaking, Spanish 
barrels, loads ; practice at moving targets, etc. The 
later edition has an appendix with long excerpts from 
and remarks upon the " Principles of Gunnery," by 
the ingenious Mr. Robins. Grouse, Norwich, 1766, 
1782. Svo. 

269. POEM. Various scenes of Shooting. John Aldington. 
London, 1767. 4to. 

270. POEM. Partridge Shooting. Francis Fawkes. " An 
eclogue to the Hon. 0. Yorke." London, 1769. 

271. POEM ON THE CRUELTY OF SHOOTING. John Alding- 
ton. London, 1769. Svo. 

272. INTRODUCTION to Marine Fortifications and Gunnery. 
Lieut. J. P. Ardesoif, R.N. Gosport, 1772. 8vo, two 
parts, plates. 

273. ART OF ENGLISH SHOOTING; with necessary observa- 
tions for the Young Sportsman when out and returning 



46 Ancient Books. 



home. George Edie. A treatise inferior to that of 
T. Page, but on similar lines. Cooke, London, 1777. 
8vo, 31 pp., 1 plate. 

274. PRINCIPLES OF GUNNERY, investigated and explained, 
comprehending Euler's Observations upon the New 
System of Gunnery, published by Mr. Robins, to 
which are added many necessary explanations and 
remarks. H. Brown. London, 1777. 4to. 

275. DISCOURSE on the Theory of Gunnery. Sir John 
Pringle, Bart., M.D., P.R.S. London, 1778. 4to, 
pamphlet. 

276. POEM. THE ART OF WAR. H. J. Pye. Translated 
from the French of the King of Prussia. London, 

1778. 

277. THE SPORTSMAN'S DICTIONARY, OR THE GENTLEMAN'S 
COMPANION, for the Town and Country, containing 
full and particular instructions for Setting, Hunting, 
Fowling, Hawking, etc., etc., the Management of 
Dogs, Gamecocks, Dunghill Fowls, Turkeys, Geese, 
Ducks, Pigeons, Singing Birds, etc., collected from the 
Best Authors, with very considerable Additions and 
Improvements, by Experienced Gentlemen. First 
edition, London, 1778, ito, plates, second edition 1782, 
other editions 1787, 1792, 1800. 

278. RESTITUTION of the Geometrical Treatise of 
Apollonius Pergseus on "Inclinations." Also, "The 
Theory of Gunnery." London, 1779. 4to. 

279. DESCRIPTION OF DOUBLE FIREARMS. Dr. John Aikins. 
Believed to be written by an ingenious surgeon, a 
voluminous writer, who also did much to improve 
surgical and orthopaedic instruments. I have been 
unable to find a copy. See Watt, " Bib. Brit." 
London, 1781. Svo. 

280. DISSERTATION ON THE ERRORS OF MARKSMEN AND 
GUNMAKERS. K. McLemon. London, 1782. 



Eighteenth-Century English Books. 47 

281. SHOOTING. A Poem. K. McLemon. London, 
1782. 

282. SHOOTING. A Poem. Faulder. London, 1784. 4to. 

283. SHOOTING. A Poem. H. J. Pye. Nbs. 282-3 are 
given as distinct publications by Watt. I have been 
unable to refer to a copy of Pye's poem of this date. 
London, 1784. 

284. POEM ; written during a shooting excursion on the 
Moors. W. Greenwood. E. Crutwell, Bath, 1787. 
4to, pp. 25. 

285. ESSAY ON SHOOTING. Anonymous. A translation of 
Marolles' book, interspersed with a few remarks, and 
the addition of " The Game of this country as connected 
with the Amusement of Shooting." In the preface to 
the first edition the author acknowledges bis indebted- 
ness to M. Marolles, but claims to have added much 
new matter. (The work is practically a literal transla- 
tion of Marolles.) In the second edition he writes of 
the "Metaphysics of the Art," and terms gunsmiths 
" a set of men who have little or nothing to do with 
the manufacture of the most important part of the 
instrument." Cadell, London, 1789, 1791. Svo, 
313 pp. 

286. TREATISE ON GUNPOWDER, a treatise on firearms 
and treatise on the service of artillery in the time of 
war. Translated from the Italian of A. V. Papacino 
D'Antoni by J. Thompson. London, 1789. Svo, 
374 pp., plates. 

287. AMUSEMENTS. A poetical essay. H. J. Pye. Has 
some lines on shooting, and a denunciation of the 
practice of slaughtering hand-reared birds. J. Stock- 
dale, London, 1790. 44 pp., 4to. 

288. THE SPORTSMAN'S DICTIONARY. Compiled by G. 
Montague. First edition appeared in 1792. There 
was a subsequent edition about 1803. 



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289. POCKET BOOK. The Sportsman's and Gamekeeper's 
Pocket Book ; or a comprehensive and familiar treatise 
on the Game Laws, comprising, amongst other matters, 
all the statutes and resolutions of the courts relating 
to hares, rabbits, grouse, fish, and other game, together 
with some general and particular remarks tending to 
explain their import and facilitate their construction, 
to which are also added the mode of recovering 
Penalties under the Game Laws, the Law concerning 
Trespass in the Pursuit of Game, and the General Law 
relating to Dogs. Anonymous. For " Game Laws " 
see also ante, No. 254. W. Clarke & Son, London, 
1794. 58 pp., 12mo. 

290. THE BRITISH SPORTSMAN, or Nobleman, Gentleman, 
and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, 
including a most improved system of Modern Farriery 
and Anatomical Dissection of the Horse, with concise 
Rules for Choosing good Horses, and the secrets of 
Training them with Wind and Vigour for the Course, 
Field, and Road, particular Instructions for Riding, 
Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Shooting, Set- 
ting, etc., etc. W. A. Osbaldiston. London, 1795. 
4to, plates. 

291. OBSERVATIONS on the English and French Locks, and 
on one newly constructed by an Officer of the Guards. 
London, 1799. Privately printed (?). 

292. OBSERVATIONS on the present state of Game in 
England, and proposal offered for its more effectual 
preservation. W. Taplin. London, 1772. Svo. 

293. ADVICE to officers of the British Army. Francis 
Grose. A satire. London, 1782, Svo ; 1783, 1787, 
12mo. Reprinted 1867 by the Agathynian Club. 

294. TREATISE on Ancient Armour and Weapons. Francis 
Grose, A series of illustrations and descriptions of old 
arms. Supplement, with distinct pagination and title, 



Eighteenth-Century English Books. 49 

published at intervals. London, 1786 1789. 4to, 
3 parts, plates. 

295. MILITARY ANTIQUITIES ; respecting the history of the 
English Army from the Conquest to the present time. 
Francis Grose. This remains the standard work upon 
the subject of the military equipment of the British 
army in mediaeval times. It was improved in later 
editions by descriptions and illustrations of the arms 
and stores in the Tower. The best edition is that of 
1812, 4to, 2 vols. T. Egerton, London, 1786-88. 
4to. New edition, enlarged, 1801, 1812. 

296. SONGS. The Royal Sportsman's Delight : a collection 
in Svo, 1765, 1800, 1820. Sportsman's Delight: a 
collection of hunting songs in 12mo, 1790. Sports- 
man's Garland : five new songs. Bristol, 1770. 

297. THE CHASE. W. Somerville. A poem descriptive of 
hunting. With it is often found " Hobnol, or Bural 
Games" and "Field Sports," a poem. Numerous 
editions, 1735, 1757, 1767, etc. "Field Sports" pub- 
lished separately by J. Orphoot, Edinburgh, 1809, 
pp. 87. A good edition of The Chase and " Field 
Sports" annotated by E. Topham, in 12nio, from 
the Albion Press, 1804, illustrated with plates and 
woodcuts. 

298. PERIODICAL. The Sporting Magazine. This pioneer 
of sporting periodicals and general repository of all 
pertaining to field sports was started in 1793, and 
quickly became famous. The second series, started in 
1815, terminated in 1842; a third was run from 1843 
to 1870. The illustrations, which were particularly 
good, are highly prized ; an index to them has been 
made by the Hon. F. Lawley. Demy Svo. 1793 1880. 

299. PRINTS. Too numerous to specify particularly. A 
set published 1770 by Woollets, after Stubbs, seems to 
fairly represent shooting at that period. 



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EIGHTEENTH-CENTUEY BOOKS FOKEIGN. 

301. NADIGS UNDEERUTTILSE OH ARTILLERIE TIL LANDS 
OCH Sios, etc. Grundels. A practical and theoretical 
treatise on Artillery in Swedish. Stockholm, 1705. 4to, 

302. CURIEUSER KRIEGS- UND FRIEDENS-STERN. Geisler. 
Treatise on military fireworks by one who had nearly 
half a century of experience in the art. Dresden, 
1707. Folio. 

303. PYROPHILI, ARS TORMENTARIA ENUCLEATA. A text- 
book for gunners. Frankfort, 1703, 1707. 8vo. 

304. ANLEJTUNG FUR ARTILLERIE. HasenbanJc. Ham- 
burg, 1710. 8vo. 

305. REFUTACAM DOS GANGS, etc. Bernardino Botelho de 
Oliveira. A treatise on Shot Guns, among other 
things, and the use of them explained, demonstrated 
and proved. (Portuguese.) A. P. Galvam, Lisbon, 
1714, 1 vol., Svo. 

306. ADELIGES LAND UND FELD LEBEN. W. H. von 
Hohberg. A book of natural history, with chapters 
on fowling, shooting, hunting, etc. ("Adeliches 
Land leben," by same author, first appeared in 1682.) 
Nurnberg, 1716. Folio, plates. 

307. CURIEUSE VOLLKOMMENE ARTILLERIE. Geisler. A 

treatise on cannon. Dresden, 1718. Fol. 

308. ESPINGARDA PERFEITA. Joao Rodrigues. About 
improved firearms, and the rules to be observed in 
using them. (Portuguese.) A. P. Galvam, Lisbon, 
1718. 1 vol. 4to, pp. xxxii, 183. 

309. ESPINGARDA PERFEYTA. Cesar Fioscono and Jordam 
Guserio. A treatise on the perfect musket, its use 
and capabilities. (Portuguese.) A. P. Galvam, 
Lisbon, 1718. 1 vol., pp. xvii, 183, 4to, with 
illustrations. 



Eighteenth-Century Books Fweign. 51 

310. ART DE TOUTE SORTE DE CHASSE ET DE PECHE. 
A compilation, a book of which the brothers Lalle- 
mand write, "contains nothing new." Boudet, Lyon, 
1719. 2 vols. I., 393 pp. ; II., 436 pp. 

311. GRUNDSAETZE DER ARTILLERIE. Liebnechts. Frank- 
fort, 1726. Svo. 

312. ARRET. An act of the Parliament of Toulouse 
prohibiting the killing of partridges. 1729. 

312. DE JUSTAE TORMENTORUM. Heinsius. The construc- 
tion of cannon on mathematical principles. Leipzig, 
1734. 4to. 

314. NACHRICHT VON GEZOGENEN BUCHSEN. A. Leutmann. 
A translation from the Latin of an article in the 
Comm. Acad. Petropol. Vol. III., St. Petersburg, 
1733. 

315. GRUNDLEHREN DER ARTILLERIE. (Meinigs.) Plutonei. 
Leipzig, 1734. Folio, 2 parts. 

316. ESSAI de Papplication des forces centrales aux effets 
de la poudre & canon. Bigot de Morogues. Experi- 
ments upon which to base a correct theory for the 
construction of mortars. Paris, 1737, pamphlet. 

317. MOYENS DE CONSERVER LE GlBIER. J. B. Simon. 

An amusing treatise written to interest sportswomen. 
Vve. Prudhomme, Paris, 1738, 1743. 12mo. 84 pp., 
frontispiece. 

318. UNTERRICHT IN DER ARTILLERIE WISSENSCHAFT. 
Heinrich Vogel. Second edition, Zurich, 1739; 3rd 
edition, 1756. Svo. 

319. TRAITE DES ARMES. Girard. Paris, 1740, 4to. 

320. ANLEDNING TIL SKIUTA, etc. Ehrenswerd. A treatise 
on theoretical and practical gunnery in Swech'sh. 
Stockholm, 1741. Svo ; an enlarged edition, 1757. 



52 Ancient Books. 



321. AMUSEMENTS DE LA CHASSE. A compilation; con- 
tains instruction for taking birds, fish, animals, and 
hints on sport, together with much extraneous matter. 
Arkslee & Merkus, Amsterdam and Leipzig, 1743. 
12 mo, 2 vols. 

322. CAZADOR INSTRUIDO. D. Juan Manuel de Arellanus. 
Instructions to sportsmen in the art of shooting with 
gun, on foot and on horseback, etc. Joseph Gonzalez, 
Madrid, 1745, 8vo ; other editions, Madrid, 1788, 
Barcelona, no date, Madrid, no date, and Madrid, 
1807. 

323. MEMOIRES D'ARTILLERIE. Saint Eemy. A new 
edition, largely augmented by Le Blond. Paris, 1745, 
1747, 4to, 3 vols. The Hague, 1741. A Russian 
edition appeared about 1754. See also No. 235, 1697. 

324. CHASSE. A well-written article of 32 pages, illus- 
trated with 23 plates, by Prevost and Defehrt, appears 
in Diderot and Alembert's Encyclopaedic du XVIII. 
Siecle, 1751-72. 

325. SCHUTZE UND JAGER. (Partly written by J. F. 
Stahl.) A manual of instruction for shooters and 
hunters, with directions for target shooting. Various 
editions. Frankfort, 1752, 1760 ; Stuttgart, later. 
Price 5 sgr. 

326. ABHANDLUNG VON DER BAHN DER GESCHUTZ KUGELN. 
Three treatises with this title were published at 
Rostock in 1754 : one by friedrich, one by Count 
Graevenitz, and one by Karsten. There were many 
other treatises, elementary or otherwise, dealing with 
gunnery, trajectories, shell firing, etc., etc. Published 
in German, Swedish and Dutch. They are enumerated 
in Rumpf, and later ones in Pohler. See Biblio- 
graphies. 

327. COMPENDIO DE ARTiLLERiA. A treatise on naval 
gunnery ; a service publication, cited by Rumpf, but 
not given in Almirante. Cadiz, 1754. 4to. 



Eighteenth-Century Books Foreign. 53 

328. SILVA VENATORIA. Don Augusterio Cairo Pinto y 
Velarde. The methods of hunting all kinds of birds 
and beasts. Gordeguela. Madrid, 1754. Svo, pp. 
xvi. and 303. 

329. KRIEGS BIBLIOTHEK. A series of works, some 
relating to gunnery and muskets. The first series 
was edited by Grdben and piiblished in 10 vols. 4to, 
at Breslau. Translations in various languages in 
Svo, 1755-72. Another edition, 1772-80. Another 
"Kriegs Bibliothek," published at Leipzig, in 5 vols. 
Svo, in 1815-17. 

330. L'ARTILLERIE NOUVELLE. Tronson de Cotidray. 
An examination of the modifications made in cannon. 
There were also some anonymous letters published in 
between 1756 and 1770. Amsterdam, 1772, 8vo; 
Amsterdam in 1773. They are attributed to the same 
author. 

331. POLVERE DA Fuoco. Francesco Vandelli. A work 
in Latin by a professor of military architecture at the 
Bologna Institute. Is of a controversial character, 
and the author propounds his own theory of the 
qualities of explosives. May be found in the " Com- 
mentarii Bolognesi," vol. iv., B. V., part II. Bologna, 
1757. 

332. LECION DE ARTILLERIA. Tomas Gerda. A treatise 
by a Jesuit priest, the author of several mathematical 
works, cited by Rumpf and Almirante. Spanish. 
Barcelona, 1764. 4to. 

333. MMOIRE SUR LA DESTRUCTION DBS LOUPS. An official 
order printed at the Royal Press, Paris, in 1770. 4to, 
4pp. 

334. PRINCIPES NOUVEAUX D'ARTILLERIE. This treatise 
is founded on Robins, with Wilson's additions, and was 
translated by Dupuys. Grenoble, 1771. 8vo, 2 vols. 



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335. MANUEL DU CHASSEUR. De Chaugrain. A treatise 
on the chase, hawking, etc., previously published as 
the " Almanach du Chasseur." First edition, 1773. 
Also in 1780 by Saugrain, Paris. 12mo. Frontispiece 
by Choffard. 

336. COLLECTION DE MEMOIRES AUTHENTIQUES. Expres- 
sions of different opinions on cannon and gunnery, by 
Gribeauval and S. Auban. Also another volume on 
the same subject, entitled, " Observations and Experi- 
ences." Alethopolis, 1774. 8vo. 

337. CONSIDERATIONS SUE LA RFORME DES ARMES. An 
account of the proceedings of the Council at the 
Invalides, Paris. Paris, 1774, fr. 

338. MEMOIRES DE PHYSIQUE. Grignon. Contains an 
article on the manufacture of cannon, forging barrels, 
etc. Paris, 1775. 4to. 

339. GEWEHR-RECHTE JAGER. J. F. Stahl. A treatise on 
the art of shooting with the shot gun for sporting 
purposes. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1776. Svo. 

340. MEMOIRES D'ARTILLERIE, containing also "New 
Artillery," by Scheel. Copenhagen, 1777. 4to. Paris, 
1798. 

341. RECEUIL de pieces sur un nouveau fusil. D'Arcy. 
Paris, 1777. Svo pamphlet. 

342. AVICEPTOLOGIE FRANQAISE. Bulliard. Natural 
history of game birds, etc. This book was in reality 
produced by a gunmaker and sporting goods dealer 
of Paris, named Krezne, q.v. Didot le Jeune. Paris, 
1778. 12mo, 34 plates. Twelve editions have appeared. 

343. EXPLICACION DE LAS PIEZAS, etc. Ncidal y Mora. 
A vocabulary of the component parts of firearms, 
muskets, carbines, pistols, etc. Madrid, 1779. Svo. 



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Eighteenth-Century Books Foreign. 55 

344. LETTRES SUE UNE ARBIE 1 FEU. Relates to a new 
infantry arm, and adduces evidence to show th.it 
musketry fire was not appreciated at its proper value. 
Contains also particulars respecting a new pattern 
Prussian rifle. Avignon, 1780. Svo. 

345. CHASSE AU FUSIL. Magne de Marolles. This book 
is very frequently quoted by writers on firearms and 
gunmaking. The author was born at Tourouvre 
(Orne), France, and employed in the King's House- 
hold. He died at Paris when about sixty years of age, 
in the year 1792. The first edition of his book had 
sis plates illustrating arms (1) the marks of barrel- 
makers ; and (2) plans. Tables of contents, xvi and 
582 pp. The 1836 edition has ten plates, xvi and 
494 pp. Paris, 1788, 1836. 

346. ANFANGS GRUNDE DER GESCHUETZ KUNST. Fuchs. 
An elementary treatise on artillery shooting. Gotha, 
1790. Svo. 

347. VERSUCH UBER DIE GEWEHRFABRIKEN. G. E. L. von 
Timaeus. This treatise on gunmaking, the art of 
shooting, and sport with the gun, appears to be a 
compilation by a well-known publisher, and is said to 
have been derived from English sources. I have been 
unable to examine a copy. Eeinecke, Leipzig, 1792. 
Svo, 8 plates. 

348. RESUMEN SACADO, etc. D. Ig. Ahadia. An account 
of the arms in the Royal Armoury, Madrid. (Spanish.) 
Madrid, 1793. 8vo. 

349. COMPENDIO HISTORICO de los Arcabuecros de Madrid. 
Isidoro Soler. A compendious history of the gun- 
makers of Madrid, with the marks they use and the 
current counterfeits of them. Aznar, Madrid, 1795. 
1 vol. 4to. 



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350. DICTIONNAIRE de Toutes Especes de Chasses. Fr. 
Lacombe. A compilation published with the same 
illustrations as used in L'Encyclopaedie du XVIII. 
Siecle, of which it forms the 19th part. Agasse, Paris, 
1795. 1 vol. and atlas of 32 plates. 4to. 

[NOTE. The compiler has not included in the foregoing list of 
eighteenth-century books several works which treat of gunnery, the 
use of artillery, etc., incidentally, as part of the general scheine of 
works devoted to such subjects as fortification, military architecture, 
tactics, discipline, or naval matters ; particulars of such books are 
readily ascertained upon reference to military bibliographies. In 
the same manner some books of minor interest have been omitted. 
In the following short list are given titles of books, MSS. and articles, 
chiefly of Italian origin, the dates and some other particulars of 
which the compiler has been unable to verify.] 

351. ESERCIZIO D'ARTIGLIERA e maneggio del Fucile. Ant. 
Sorra. A treatise on artillery and musketry drill. 
Venice. 1703. 4to. 

352. LA NOBILITA E VIRTU, che ha in se la virtuosissima 
professione del vera archisbusiere, composta per suo 
divertimento, etc. Cartello de Lari. This is a manu- 
script, circa 1714, praising the soldiers' calling, and 
is said to be written facetiously. Codice della 
Maricelliana CCCLXXV. 

353. DISSEGNI d'ogni sorta de cannoni et mortari. Par- 
ticulars of the various kinds of cannon, mortars, con- 
struction, weight, loads, ranges, etc., with directions. 
A manuscript of the Salluziana collection, date 1732. 

354. SENTIMENTO SOPRA LA PROVA DELLE POLVERE. A MS. 
treating of gunpowder tests, etc. Now in the Turin 
library, date 1745. 

355. SPERIENZE INTORNO ALLA CARICA, ETC. Experiments 
relating to loads, ranges, possible weights of cannon, 
etc., cited by Balbo in his " Life of Papacino." Sup- 
posed to have been written at Valetta, Malta, 1747. 
Marandone of Turin supposed author. 



Eighteenth-Century Books Foreign. 57 

356. SPERIENZE su LA LUNGHEZZA DE Tim. Experiment 
to ascertain the range of cannon. D. Vincenti. Turin, 
1754. 

358. ARTIGLERIA VENETA. Domenico Gasperoni. A rare 
book treating of Venetian artillery, and the author 
promised another dealing with ancient arms, but this 
does not appear to have been written. " Artigleria " 
has 20 engraved plates. Venice, 1779. 

359. REGOLAMENTO, respecting dimensions of the barrel, 
bayonet, lock, etc., of the infantry musket, 1788 model. 
Naples, 1793. 

360. POLVORA. D. Pedro Castro. A paper in which 
proofs are set out that gunpowder was used in Italy 
prior to 1380. MS. now in the library of the Acad. 
de la Hist., Madrid ; written about 1767. 

361. POLVORA. Espicion de Castro. A MS. treating of 
the sale of gunpowder; gives also some particulars 
concerning the use of the arqubus and artillery, and 
a history of firearms generally. (Ayala.) Bib. de F. 
San Roman. Sig. xvi, folio 43. 

362. ESAMINE BELLA POLVERE. D. Antonio, P. A. de 
Villafranca. Published at Turin, 1763. 8vo. 

363. MACHINA. G. Casale. An account of a special 
machine designed in order to prove certain theories 
of ballistics. The description is included in Vol. V., 

COMMENTARII, 1767. 

364. ARTE FABRILE. Petrini Antonio da Firenze. This 
treatise has some particulars of the manufacturing 
arts of possible interest to gunmakers. See No. 156. 

365. DISSERTATIO ARTIGLIERIA. Various MSS. with this 
title are among the MSS. Salluziana. 

366. STATO DELL' ARTIGLERIA. A MS. in the Parmense 
collection. 



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ENGLISH BOOKS, 18001850. 

401. REMARKS ON RIFLE GUNS. Ezekiel Baker. The full 
title to the llth edition is : " Remarks on Rifle Guns ; 
being the result of sixty years' practice and obser- 
vation, with specific remarks on fowling-pieces, the 
percussion lock, and firearms in general. To which 
are subjoined descriptions of a new bullet mould and 
clipper, various improvements in gun and door locks, 
spring bolts ; a description of firearms deposited in the 
Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, including all the improve- 
ments and inventions for which three silver medals 
have been awarded by the Society of Arts, together 
with tables of balls, descriptive plates, etc., by Ezekiel 
Baker, Gun and Rifle Maker to His Majesty, the 
Honourable Board of Ordnance, and the Honourable 
East India Co." The author's work as an inventor 
will be found recorded in the Society of Arts Trans- 
actions. This book has an etching by Barlow, some 
curious plates, and strictures on Birmingham-made 
military guns. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1800 
(1798?), 1804. Eight other editions before 1835. 
(llth edition), 8vo, pp. 268, half-title and plates. 

402. CAUTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN. Sir Thos. Frank- 
land. London, 1801 (2nd edition, with additions). 8vo. 

403. ENGLISH BOWMAN. T. Roberts. This is the most 
easily obtained book containing the Musket and Bow 
Controversy between Sir J. Smith and H. Barwick 
and others in the 16th century. Printed for author 
by C. Roworth, Strand, London, 1801 ; second edition 
1804. Plates, including one folding of cross-bows. 
8vo, pp. 300. 

404. RURAL SPORTS. William Barker Daniels. An in- 
ferior Sporting Cyclopaedia, redeemed by some fine 
plates due to J. Scott. Sometimes found in three 



English Books, 18001850. 59 

vols. London 1801-2. 2 vols. 8vo. A Supplement 
in 1813 ; another edition in 3 vols. 1812. 

405. SPORTING DICTIONARY and Rural Repository of 
general information upon every subject pertaining to 
Sports of the Field. Win. Taplin. There is a stable 
directory, a sort of veterinary handbook, by the same 
compiler, which is sometimes confounded with the 
above. London, 1803. 8vo. 

406. SPORTSMAN'S CABINET. Songs. 1803. 4to. 

407. SHOOTING DIRECTORY. R. B. Thornhill. London, 
1804. 4to; price 31s. Qd. 

408. SPORTSMAN'S DICTIONARY. Improved and enlarged 
by H. J. Pye. Fifth edition, 17 plates. See No. 288. 
London, 1807. 4to. 

409. ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS. Thomas Williamson. A 
complete description of the wild sports of the East. 
Drawings of Animals by S. Howitt. London, 1807. 
Folio. 

410. ORMES' COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS, with 
20 engravings from designs by S[amuel] H[owitt]. 
London, 1807. 4to, oblong. These must not be con- 
founded with a series of copper-plate engravings often 
bound together with this title, but without letterpress, 
and which originally appeared in oblong folio about 
1650, at Leipzig (?). 

411. SCLOPPETARIA. Captain Eeau f oy. "Considerations 
on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns with refer- 
ence to their forming the basis of a permanent system 
of national defence agreeable to the genius of the 
country." On the formation of rifle corps, and arms 
for their use, plates of gun parts, butts, diagrams, etc., 
tables and index. Egerton, London, 1808 ; 2nd edi- 
tion, 1812 ; pp. 251, 10 plates and frontispiece. 

412. GROUP of ANIMALS FROM LIFE. S. Howitt. No text. 
London, 1811. 4to. 



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413. BRITISH SPORTSMAN. Samuel Howitt. A book de- 
scriptive of Field Sports, and illustrated with 70 
coloured plates. Ed. Orme, London, 1812. 4to, plates. 

414. FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, with supplement of New 
South Wales. The supplement has separate title, and 
issued apart. Illustrations by S. Howitt, Atkinson 
Clark, Maus Kirch, etc. The original was produced 
in sumptuous style green morocco, extra bound, 
sporting tools on back and broad borders, gilt edges. 
It contained 50 plates. Present value 3 to <4. 
London, 1814. 4to. 

415. INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that 
relates to Guns and Shooting. Peter Hawker. Pro- 
bably the best known book on the subject. It was 
written, the author states, " at the particular request 
of some sporting friends of the author, who had 
recourse to the press in order to present each of them 
with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions 
also were provided for the amusement and instruction 
of the inexperienced sportsman " ; and eleven editions 
were published between 1814 and 1859. The first 
is very rare, the third is the best early edition, the 
ninth the most full. Subsequent to the author's death, 
his son, P. W. L. Hawker, edited the work, and the 
contents were abridged. The third edition is 8vo, has 
470 pp., 10 lithographed plates, 4 coloured, a list of 
London gunmakers, remarks on the Game Laws, and 
some natural history notes ; but the chief value of the 
book arises from the practical information given, the 
results of original experiments, particulars of " timely 
inventions," and the opinions of gunmakers. There is 
very little superfluous anecdote, and not so much 
argumentative writing as in sporting books of the 
time. Printed by Charles Wood, Poppin's Court, 
Fleet Street, for Longman, Hurst, Eees, Orme, Brown 
and Green. 1814, 8vo; 1816, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1830 
corrected, 1844, 1854, edited by P. W. L. Hawker, 



English Books, 18001850. 61 

1859. A supplement containing the additions to the 
fourth edition was published in 1825, and an Abridg- 
ment of the Game Laws, with suggestions, being an 
Appendix to the sixth edition, was published in 1831. 
The book is not rare, and is worth about 10s. 

416. NOTICES to all Sportsmen, and particularly to 
Farmers and Gamekeepers. Colonel George Hanger. 
This is a medley of recipes, including remarks on 
" fowling-pieces, rifle-guns ; and muskets rifle-shooting ; 
How to keep all arms loaded for two or three years 
so as to fire more sure than if fresh loaded ; methods 
of netting partridges, to prevent poaching, to stalk 
red deer, to shoot wild fowl, remarks on the rifle- 
breach, etc., etc. ; to which is added, A plan for train- 
ing and developing a corps such as never yet has 
appeared in any army of Europe, armed with a pecu- 
liar gun which will shoot with the precision of a rifle 
one-third farther than any rifle hitherto used on 
service, and can also be loaded with cartridges and 
fired as quick as a common musket." This book gives 
much information respecting small-bore American 
rifles, from which the "express" principle is supposed 
to have been developed. J. J. Stockdale, London, 
1814. 8vo, 226 pp.; price 12s. 

417. REPORT: Manton v. Parker. The case for Joseph 
Manton's improved gun lock, heard at Westminster 
July 6th, 1814, relates to the formation of the hammer, 
which allows the air to escape when loading, but stops 
egress of powder. The judge said, " It seems to me 
that the utility of this invention and the purpose of 
the patent wholly fail." W. Clarke & Sons, London, 
1814. 8vo, 65 pp., and plate of gun hammers. 

418. THIRTY YEARS' PRACTICE IN HORSES AND DOGS ; with 
REMARKS ON FOWLING-PIECES, RIFLES, etc., together 
with plan for training a corps armed with a peculiar 
gun. Colonel G. H. Hanger. London, 1814, 1816. Svo. 



62 Ancient Books. 



419. LETTERS ON SHOOTING. Robert, Lascelles. One of 
three parts of a treatise called " Angling, Shooting, 
Coursing." London, 1815. 8vo. 

420. THOMAS'S SHOOTERS' GUIDE, or complete Sportsman's 
Companion. (T. B. Johnson.) London, 1816. Post Svo, 
frontispiece. 

421. COMPLETE SPORTSMAN; containing a compendious 
view of the Ancient and Modern Chase, etc. T. H. 
Needham (i.e. T. B. Johnson). Simpkin & Marshall, 
London, 1817. 12mo, 312 pp. 

422. BRITISH FIELD SPORTS. W. H. Scott. Embracing 
Practical Instructions in Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, 
Racing, Cocking, Fishing, etc., with Observations on 
the Breaking and Training of Dogs and Horses, also 
the Management of Fowling-Pieces and other Sporting 
Implements. Thirty-four engravings by J. Scott, after 
Berenger, etc., and woodcut vignettes and tailpieces 
by Bewick. London, 1818. Svo. 

423. SHOOTER'S COMPANION ; or Directions for the Breed- 
ing, Training and Management of Setters and Pointers, 
with an Historical Description of Winged Game. The 
fowling-piece considered, particularly as to the use of 
Percussion Powder ; the various methods of making 
Percussion Powder, and the best pointed out. Of 
scent . . . shooting illustrated ; and the art of shooting 
flying simplified and clearly laid down. The Game 
Laws familiarly explained ... as well as every infor- 
mation connected with the use of the Fowling Piece. 
T. B. Johnson, author of " Thomas's Guide and Need- 
ham's Companion." The sub-title too fully indicates 
the scope of this small book. It is inferior to others 
of earlier date. Edwards & Knibb, London, 1819. 
12mo, 156 pp., 3 etchings by Charles Towne. 

424. SHOOTERS' GUIDE, or Complete Sportsman. B. Thomas 
[T. B. Johnson]. London, 1820. 12mo, 1 plate. 



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425. NATIONAL SPORTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. John Lawrence 
and Henry Alken. Descriptions in English and French 
of a series of coloured illustrations. London, 1821. 
Folio. 

426. SPORTSMAN'S PROGRESS, a poem descriptive of the 
pleasures derived from field sports. Represented from 
2nd edition of Scott's " British Field Sports." London, 
1820. 

427. SHOOTING ON THE THAMES. J. Hassell. This is 
contained in a scarce little book called " Excursions 
of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames." A series of 
aqua-tint illustrations. Simpkin, London, 1823. 
12mo, pp. iii, 191 ; coloured engravings. 

428. SHOOTING. Henry Alken. Coloured Plates caricatur- 
ing the sport. Oblong folio. McClean, Haymarket, 
London, 1824 (re-issue?). 

429. SPORTSMAN'S COMPANION. Songs. J. Pitts, London, 
1825. S. sh., folio. 

430. SPORTSMAN'S COMPANION or Gamekeeper's Account 
Book. Chelmsford, 1827. 8vo. 

431. OBSERVATIONS, on the manufacture of Firearms for 
military purposes, on the number supplied from 
Birmingham to the British Government during the 
late War, on the proof to which barrels are subjected, 
and on the Proof House, together with some remarks 
upon the inexpediency of the Ordnance Department 
fabricating small arms, and upon the obstacles to the 
free export of arms. [S. .King.] An anonymous 
publication, evidently the work of a Birmingham fire- 
arms merchant, full of statistics relative to the firearms 
trade of this country. Longman, London. J. Drake, 
Birmingham, 1829. 8vo, pamphlet, 3 parts. 

432. ADVENTURES IN RIFLE BRIGADE in the Peninsula, 
France, and Netherlands, from 1809 to 1815. John 



64 Ancient Books. 



Kincaid. A record of soldiering ; later, wrote some 
" Random Shots of Rifleman " (1835). London, 1830, 
12mo; 1838 (12mo). 

433. DICTIONARY OF MILITARY SCIENCE. E. 8. A T . Campbell. 
London, 1830. 8vo. 

434. FIELD SPORTS IN THE NORTH. L. Lloyd. " Comprised 
in a personal narration of a residence in Sweden and 
Norway in the years 1827, 1828." Illustrated. 
London, 1830. 8vo, 2 vols. Enlarged edition. 
Simpkin & Marshall, Glasgow. Printed 1885. 8vo, 
416 pp. Swedish edition, Stockholm, 1830. 

435. SPORTSMAN'S SHOOTING JOURNAL and Game Account 
Book. On an improved plan, embracing the advan- 
tages of the Holkam Game Book. London, 1830. 8vo. 
An annual. 

436. THE SPORTSMAN'S VOCAL CABINET. C. Armiger. 
Lyrics. London, 1830. 12mo. 

437. SPORTSMAN'S CYCLOPAEDIA. " Being an elucidation of 
the science and practice of the field . . . etc." T. B. 
Johnson. London, Liverpool printed, 1831. 8vo, 
frontispiece. 

438. WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. W. H. Maxwell. With 
Legendary Tales, by a writer of fiction. London, 1832, 
4to; 1833, 12mo; 1839, Svo; 1850, 8vo ; 1882, Svo; 
pp. 158. 

439. HINTS to Grown Sportsmen. Longmans, London, 
1832. 12mo. 

440. THE FIELD BOOK. W. H. Maxwell "Sports and 
Pastimes of the United Kingdom, by the aiithor of 
' Wild Sports of the West ' ; being Sports and Adven- 
tures in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland," and 
numerous other similar books. London, 1833. Svo, 
woodcuts. 



English Books, 18001850. 65 

441. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN RIFLE BRIGADE. William 
Surtees. Edited by J. Surtees. Edinburgh, 1833. 
8vo. 

442. METHODS USED IN POINTING GUNS AT SEA. Captain 
J. H. Stevens. A brochure on naval gunnery. J. 
Murray, London, 1834. 8vo, 45 pp., and plates. 

443. THE GUN ; or, a Treatise on the various descriptions 
of Small Firearms. William Greener. The first of 
Mr. Greener's books, and the most original work on 
the subject published this century. Colonel G. Hawker 
considered it "by far the best work ever wrote on the 
subject." The author had much difficulty in procuring 
correct illustrations, and the publication was in con- 
sequence long delayed. In apologising for the delay 
in the preface he adds " Should it be objected that the 
book is too thin for the price, he has only to say that 
had it been half the thickness, he would not have 
thought of charging it one farthing less ; the immensely 
expensive scale upon which his experiments have been 
conducted have, in a great measure, been ruinous to 
himself." The book was written in Newcastle about 
1832, and printed in Sunderland in 1834. Dedicated 
to the Duke of Wellington. Longman & Co., London ; 
Cadell, Edinburgh, 1835. 8vo, 240 pp., 4 plates, and 
woodcuts in text. Price 15s. 

444. REMARKS ON SHOOTING. W. Watt. Instructions on 
shooting, and part of the Game Laws done into 
" familiar verse," by a facetious and much quoted 
sportsman, who lived at Islington. Sherwood & Co., 
London, 1835, Svo ; enlarged edition, 1839, 8vo. 
96 pp., plate. 

445. OAKLEIGH SHOOTING CODE. By Thos. Oakleigh (i.e. 
James Wilson), "containing 220 chapters of infor- 
mation relative to shooting, with numerous notes." 
London, 1836. 12mo. 

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66 Ancient Books. 



446. HUNTERS OF THE PRAIRIE; or, The Hawk Chief. 
J. T. Irving. A Tale. London, 1837. 12mo. 

447. THE ART OF DEERSTALKING ; illustrated by a narra- 
tive of a few days' sport in the forest of Athole. 
William Scrope. This excellent book was republished 
as " Days of Deerstalking," by Hamilton, Adams & Co., 
1883, with illustrations by Sir E. and C. Landseer. 
London, 1838, 8vo ; new edition, 1883, 8vo. 324 pp. 

448. MAXIMS and Hints on Shooting, Richard Penn. A 
book of instructions for all sports. J. Murray, 1839 (?), 
8vo, 7s. 6d.; 1855, 12mo, Is. 

449. NARRATIVE of Expedition to South Africa . . . 
during the years 1836-37. Sir W. C. Harris. Illus- 
trated. Bombay, 1838. 8vo. 

450. SNOBSON'S SEASONS. Annals of Cockney Sports. 
R. B. Peake ; the 92 illustrations by R. Seymour. A 
much -sought, facetious work. A good copy is worth 
12. London, 1838, 1841. Royal Svo, cloth. 

451. SPORTING. Embellished by large engravings and 
vignettes illustrative of Field Sports, with literary 
contributions by various writers. By " Nimrod " (i.e. 
C. Apperhy). London, 1838. 4to. 

452. WILD SCENES IN FOREST AND PRAIRIE. C. F. Hoffman. 
London, 1839. Svo. 2 vols. 

453. WILD SPORTS OF SOUTH AFRICA. Sir W. C. Harris. 
London, 1839, 1840, 1841. 

454. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS. Edited by D. P. 
Elaine. This is a work of mediocre performance, 
essentially a publisher's book. London, 1840, Svo ; 
1852, large Svo, revised by " Harry Hieover " ; and the 
best edition, having plates and 600 woodcuts, 1858, 
revised by R. Braunston, has plates by Leech. An 
edition partly rewritten and brought up to date was 
printed in Edinburgh 1870, and published by 
Mackenzie, London. 



English Books, 18001850. 67 

455. MOOR AND LOCH. John Colquhoun. " Containing 
practical hints on most of the Highland Sports ; and 
notices of the habits of the different creatures of game 
and prey in the mountainous districts of Scotland." 
Edinburgh, 1840, Svo; London, 1851. Fourth edition 
enlarged, 2 vols, 1878; Fifth, 1880, 1884. 

456. PORTRAITS OF GAME. Sir W. 0. Hams. The sketches 
of African Field Sports drawn by F. Howard, the 
animals " delineated from life in their native haunts." 
London, 1840. Folio. 

457. RIFLE AND ITS EXERCISE. Contained in " Defensive 
Exercises." Edited by D. Walker. London, 1840. Svo. 

458. MS. Account of Gun-making in Birmingham. 
Nawkes Smith. Written about 1840. Quoted by 
S. Timmins in " Industrial History of Birmingham." 

459. ROD AND GUN. James Wilson. The Angling and 
Shooting articles from the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." 
Black, Edinburgh, 1840, 1841, etc. Svo, with en- 
gravings and a frontispiece. 

460. GUIDE TO THE TOWER. John Hewitt. Some descrip- 
tions of the Armour and Weapons in the Tower of 
London. First published in 1841. 

461. ENGINES OF WAR; or historical and experimental 
observations on ancient and modern warlike machines 
and implements ; including the manufacture of guns, 
gunpowder, and swords, with remarks on bronze, iron, 
steel, etc. Henry Wilkinson, M.R.A.S. A readable 
treatise by the eminent sword manufacturer and gun- 
maker of Pall Mall. It is based on a paper read 
before the Royal Institution, and its theory of the 
discovery of gunpowder is most ingenious. The de- 
scriptions of manufacturing processes are not accurate, 
and the author was led into a serious error as to the 
" composition of explosives." W. Greener exposed 
the error in his " Science of Gunnery," and a note 



68 Ancient Books. 



correcting the mistake was inserted in copies issued 
after. There seems to have been a charge of plagiarism 
made by Wilkinson, for Greener retorts : " I have 
already shown that Mr. Wilkinson is wrong in a many 
of his conclusions, but in none can he be more so than 
in imagining I had borrowed from him. Impossible ! 
He has nothing to lend, and, of course, nothing worth 
borrowing." Longman & Co., London. 1841. 8vo, 
268 pp. 

462. SCIENCE OF GUNNERY, as applied to the use and con- 
struction of Firearms. William Greener. This book 
embodies " The Gun," and has additional chapters on 
" Ancient Arms, Gunpowder, Shot, etc., together with 
much matter of controversial nature, and examinations 
of the theories of Robins, Hutton, etc." A vigorously 
written and interesting book, and having as frontispiece 
an excellent engraving by Nicholson, representing the 
author shooting the wild white cattle of Britain in 
Chillingham Park. The preliminary " advertisement " 
is incorrectly dated 1831 ; should be 1841. Dedicated 
to Prince Albert ; engraved title. Longman & Co., 
London, 1841. 8vo, 324 pp., 8 plates. New edition, 
Woking, 1846. 

463. SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. F. Tolfrey. Account of a 
sporting ramble through Picardy and Normandy, with 
particulars of boar shooting in Lower Brittany. 
London, 1841. 12mo, 2 vols., 12 illustrations. 

464. MODERN SHOOTER. Certain R. Lacy. " Containing 
practical instructions and directions for every descrip- 
tion of inland and coast shooting." Was reviewed by 
P. Hawker, in the preface to the ninth edition of 
" Instructions," and did not reach a second edition ; it 
is nevertheless well worth possessing, and if not con- 
taining much that is new, is fairly illustrated, and a 
happy specimen of the facetious style of writing then 
the fashion. Whittaker & Co., London, 1842. 8vo, 
548 pp., engraved title by Landells, frontispiece by 
T. A. Priors, woodcuts. 



English Books, 18001850. 69 

465. THE OLD FOREST RANGER ; or, Wild Sports of India, 
on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and on the 
Plains. Walter Campbell. London, 1842, 8vo ; third 
edition, 1852 ; American edition, 1853. 

466. SHOOTER'S HANDBOOK ; being the treatise on shooting 
from the " Rod and Gun." By J. Wilson. Edinburgh, 
1842. 12mo. 

467. SCENES AND SPORTS IN FOREIGN LANDS. E. H. D. E. 
Napier. London, 1842. 12mo, 2 vols. WILD SPORTS 
IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA. E. H. D. E. Napier. 
London, 1844. Svo, 2 vols. 

468. HYDE MARSTON ; or, a Sportsman's Life. " Craven " 
(i.e. W. Carleton). London, 1844. Svo, 3 vols. 

469. HIGHLANDS OF ETHIOPIA. Sir W. C. Harris. A 
book of African Sport. London, 1844. 8vo, 3 vols. 
Second edition same year. 

470. THE SHOOTER'S PRECEPTOR. T. B. Johnson. Certain 
practical instructions in the choice and management of 
dogs used in shooting. The fowling-piece fully con- 
sidered. The art of shooting flying simplified, etc. 
London, 1844. 12mo. 

471. SPORTSMAN'S DIRECTORY and Park and Game Keeper's 
Companion. John Mayer. Illustrated. London, 1845. 
Svo. 

472. SPORTING EXCURSION TO NIAGARA AND THE CANADIAN 
LAKES. By Saron. Three Articles from The New 
Sporting Magazine. Two cuts added. Svo, half calf. 
London, 1845. 

473. SPORTSMAN IN CANADA. F. Tolfrey. London, 1845. 
2 vols. 12mo. 

474. RECREATIONS IN SHOOTING. "Graven" (i.e. John 
William Carleton}. A pleasantly written and well 
illustrated book on the favourite field sport, with some 



70 Ancient Books. 



account of the game of the British Islands. London, 
1846. 8vo. Added to Bohn's Illustrated Library, with 
engravings on wood by Branston and on steel after 
A. Cooper, 1849. 

475. THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY. J. Mills. A compilation 
by a novelist ; P. Hawker and others are laid under 
heavy contribution for the matter. Edinburgh, 1845. 
8vo. 

476. HIGHLAND SPORTS and Highland Quarters. H. B. 
Hall. H. Hurst. London, 1847. 2 vols. Svo, 21s. 

477. INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG MARKSMEN. John R. Chap- 
man. Treats of the general construction, practical 
manipulation, causes and liability to error in making 
accurate performances, and the theoretic principles 
upon which such accurate performances are founded, 
as exhibited in the improved American Rifle. Has 
some interesting notes on rifle manufacture in America. 
Appleton, New York, 1840. 160 pp., litho. plates, 
woodcuts. 

478. NATURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND. -Thompson. This 
work has a chapter on punt guns, punts, and some 
notes on wildfowling. Reeve & Co., London, 1849. 

479. WALKER'S MANLY EXERCISES. The ninth edition, 
edited by " Craven," has more about gun handling 
than others. London, 1849. Svo. 

480. THE SHOOTERS' POCKET COMPANION. " Trigger" A 
manual for sportsmen. Field, London, 184-. 12mo, 
2s. Qd. 

481. SHOOTERS' HANDBOOK. A treatise on shooting. 
Simpkin, London, 184-. Post Svo, 6s. 

482. SPORTSMAN AND HIS DOG ; or, Hints on Sporting. 
By the Author of " Scottish Sports and Pastimes." 
London, 1850. 12mo. 

483. THE SPORTING ADVENTURES of T. S. HaubucJc. 
Facetious. Longman, London, 1847. 



French Books, 18001850. 71 

484. INTRODUCTION to the Field Sports of France. R. 
O'Connor. Murray, London, 1846. 8vo, 6s. 

485. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SPORTS. Spiers, London. 2 
vols., 4to, 16s. each. 

486. THE ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, his Sports and 
Pastimes. Lloyd. A poem. Longman, London, 

1849. 8vo, 2s. 

487. SPORTING EXCURSION in the Rocky Mountains. /. K. 
Townshend. Colburn, London, 1839. 2 vols. 8vo, 18s. 

488. FIELD SPORTS IN AMERICA. H. W. Herbert. The 
English edition of " Frank Forester." Bentley, 
London, 1848. 2 vols., post 8vo, 21s. 

489. YOUNG SPORTSMAN'S MANUAL. Chapman & Hall, 
London, 1849. Post Svo, 7s. Qd. 

490. EXMOOR ; or, Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West. 
H. B. Hall. Of little sporting interest. Newby, 
London, 1849. 2 vols., Svo. 

491. SPORTSMAN AND HIS DOG; or, Hints on Shooting. H. 
B. Hall. Darling, 1850. 12mo, 2s. Qd. 

492. THIRTY-SIX HINTS TO SPORTSMEN. Okehampton, 

1850. 4to, 18 pp. 



FRENCH BOOKS, 18001850. 

501. THEORIE GENERALE de toutes les Chasses. This book 
appeared under various titles ; as Aviceptologie it is 
attributed to Balliard. It appears to have been 
compiled by Kresz, a manufacturer of sporting ac- 
cessories, and the work was again added to by Cussac. 
It is a compilation with 36 illustrations, the literary 
contents drawn chiefly from Marolles, Desgraviers, 
Buffon, and the Encyclopaedia. See also No. 342. 



72 Ancient Books. 



502. DICTIONNAIRE TnfoRiQUE et Pratique de Chasse et de 
Peche. D. de Sales. The author was born at Lyons 
1743, died 1816. He wrote numerous books. This 
one came under the ban of the censor and was sup- 
pressed, only to reappear under other titles. 

503. FABRICATION DES ARMES PORTATIVES. M. Cotty. A 
treatise on the manufacture of small arms for military 
purposes, by an artillery officer, and the inventor of 
the Cotty flint lock. Magimel, Paris, 1806. In 8vo. 

504. INSTRUCTION SUR LES ARMES A FEU. A text-book of 
drill, etc. Magimel, Paris, 1806. In Svo. 

505. MEMOIRS sur la Fabrication des Armes portatives de 
Guerre. H. Cotty. An exact account of the methods 
followed in producing the various types of firearms. 
Magimel, Paris, 1806. Svo, 230 pp. and table. 

506. MANUEL DES CHASSEURS. Chevalier Blanc- St. -Bonnet. 
A shooting code ; manual for sportsmen and a biblio- 
graphy of 5 pp. Eymery, Paris, 1820. 12mo. Another 
edition in Svo; an enlarged edition in 1821. 

507. FUSILS DE CHASSE. Henri Roux. Devoted chiefly 
to the percussion gun invented by Pauly, but with 
some remarks on the manufacture of firearms generally, 
on shooting, on gunpowder, and its effects. Delaunay, 
Paris, 1822. Svo, 82 pp. 

508. PRECIS DES EPREUVES. An account of the com- 
parative test made in 1820 and 1821, with cannon of 

different kinds. Baron Field-Marshal C . Paris, 

1822. 

509. ALBUM DU CHASSEUR. Doneaud du Plan. Has a 
small bibliography. Lefual, Paris, 1823. In ISmo, 
five illustrations. 

510. TARIF DES PRIX DE REPARATIONS. Authorised charges 
for repairing small arms. Verronais, Metz, 1823. 
Folio. 



French Books, 18001850. 73 

511. PRO JET DE LEGISLATION. C. de Girardin. A project 
made in 1817, and printed at the Royal Press in 
1824. 

512. VADE MECUM DU CHASSEUR. An old sportsman's 
hints on kennel management, etc. Paris, 1827. 
Three illustrations. Five francs. 

/ 

513. ECOLE PRATIQUE DE CHASSE. Prospectus of a shooting 
school. Belin, Paris, 1829. In 4to, 16pp. 

514. CHASSE ET PECHE, suivies de poesies diverses. Comte 
de Chevigne. Small edition, printed for the author. 
Odes, stories, etc. Reims, 1832, 265 pp. 

515. DBS EFFETS DE LA POUDRE. Comte de Bouchaye. Pub- 
lished in 1834, this book is of little use now; it gives 
the effect of powder in sporting arms, and upon various 
projectiles. 

516. VIEUX CHASSEUR. Tlieopli. Deyeux. Reminiscences. 
Houdouille, Paris, 1835, in 8vo. Fifty-one litho. illus- 
trations. Other editions 1836, 1837, in 18mo; 1844, 
in 12mo. In 1851, by Aubry, with fifty illustrations, 
also by Peon, 1854-55. ISIew edition, with preface. 
Dentu, 1868, 1873, and one or more later without 
date. 

517. MEMOIRE sur le Fusil de Guerre, 1836. M. Heurteloup. 
A descriptive text-book for the 1836 pattern musket. 

518. MANUEL. Nouveau manuel du Chasseur. M.Thierry. 
This book is further described as being a complete 
treatise on hunting with gun and hound. Huzard, 
Paris, no date (1838). In ISmo, frontispiece, engraved 
title, 6 plates, 252 pp. 

519. MUSEE DU CHASSEUR. Victor Adam. A collection 
of every description of fur and feathered game, with 
an account of their habits, haunts, etc. Arm. Robin., 
Paris, 1838. Two parts in one volume. Large 8vo. 
Coloured lithographs by V. Adam. Italian edition 



74 Ancient Books. 



also published. Part I. contains : Animals, pp. viii, 
224. Part II. : Birds, pp. xvi, 227. Seventy-two 
illustrations, coloured or black. 

520. MANUEL DU CHASSEUR. M. Champeonniere. A 
treatise on sporting rights and game laws. Videcoq, 
Paris, 1844. 16mo. 

521. MANUFACTURES ROYALES D'ARMES. An order re- 
pecting the French Government arms factories. Imp. 
Royale, Paris, 1845. Folio. 

522. USAGE DBS ARMES 1 FEU. Marquis de Saint Auban. 
A translation from the Italian of Papacino d' An- 
tonio. 

523. MAISON RUSTIQUE DU XIX c. Bixio Bailly and 
Malpeyre. A country cyclopaedia, in the fourth 
volume of which are some remarks on field sports and 
the use of firearms. (Vide No. 44.) Dusacq, Paris, 
no date. 4to. 

524. TRAITES DE TOUTES SORTES DE CHASSE ET DE PECHE. 
An imitation of " Ruses Innocentes." The ninety 
plates of illustrations taken from " Amusements de 
la Peche." Yol. I., xvi et 343 pp., II., vi et 271, 
table of contents and alphabetical glossary of sporting 
terms. 

525. TRAITE GENERAL DES CHASSES i COURRE ET 1 Tin. 
A compilation. Vol. I., xiii et 311 pp., 12 pp. 
music ; Vol. II., 323 pp. The book is much sought by 
collectors. 

526. CHASSES ET PECHES ANGLAISES. This is the same 
work as "La Chasse et la Peche en Angleterre et sur 
le Continent," which see. 

527. TRAITE DE LA CHASSE, au silicer a poil. A compi- 
lation from articles in the "Encyclopedic Methodique," 
Marolles, etc. Bulliard appears to be the compiler. 
A modification of a "Traite de la Chasse aux Oiseaux." 
Paris, no date, 223 pp., seven plates (from the 
" Encyc.") 



German Books, 1800 1850. 75 

528. MENAGE DES CHAMPS. Another of Liger's compila- 
tions, and apparently often confounded with other books 
of similar titles. 

529. ECOLE DU CHASSEUR. A compilation, chiefly 
extracted from Diderot's encyclopaedia and the Essai 
of M. de Marolles. Paris, no date, 402 pp., ten 
illustrations, the latter not new. 



GERMAN BOOKS, 18001850. 

601. SCHIESSEN MIT DEE ScHROT FLiNTE. A manual on 
the art of shooting with the shot gun ; for sportsmen. 
From the English. Baumgartner, Leipzig, 1802. In8vo. 

602. ERFAHRUNG GEGRUNDETER UNTERRICHT FUR BUCK- 
SENSCHUTZEN. F. B. G. (h'cisshoff. A guide to the art 
of shooting with the rifle (purschbuchse or Stutze). 
W. B. Korn, Breslau, 1803, and 1813. 8vo. 

603. GEWEHRFABRIK IN SUHL. Heinrich Anschutz. The 
foundation, history, and present position of the industry 
and the methods followed in the manufacture of both 
sporting and military firearms. Arnold, Dresden, 
1811, Svo. Two plates. Price 26| n. groschen. 

604. ANLEITUNG. Carl Fr. von Sponek. How to take 
Red, Fallow, and Roe Deer. Groos, Heidelberg, 1812, 
1819, 1825, 1827 ; also Leipzig, 1819. 

605. HULFSBUCHLEIN fur Jagdliebhaber scheibenschutzen. 
A manual for the sportsman and marksman with the 
art of shooting with the gun. (Steinacker, Leipzig), 
Gotha, 1817. Svo, 7 n.g. 

606. GEWEHRKENNER. J. W. Roux. A theoretical and 
practical treatise on the sporting gun and rifle. 
Steinacker, Leipzig, 1822. Svo, price 15 n. gr. 



76 Ancient Books. 



607. SCHIESSKUNST. C. F. E. Thon. A treatise on the 
art of shooting with the rifle, shot gun and pistol, 
as well at the target as in the field and on service. 
Eight editions. Sonderhausen, 1822, 1824, subse- 
quently issued at Weimar. 8vo, two parts, price 1.10. 

608. SCHIESSPULVER. C. F. Saltzer. A treatise on the 
history, manufacture and qualities of gunpowder. 
Miiller, Carlsruhe, 1824. 26| groschen. 

609. ANWEISUNG. Gunther Schild. The full title is 
" Deutl. Anweisung iiber den richt, und zweckmassig. 
Gebr. d. Jagd-Flinte, mit praktischen beispielen 
erlautert." A treatise on shooting. Nordhausen, 
Leipzig, 1824. 8vo. 

610. ERKLARUNG lib. d. Bestandtheile d. Feuergewehrs. 
How to use firearms, and particulars respecting some 
varieties. Neukirch, Basel, 1824. Svo, one woodcut, 
price 4 groschen. 

611. PRAKT-JAGERSCHULE. Gunther Schild. A treatise 
on the art of shooting, etc. Dorffling, Leipzig, 1824, 
1837. Svo. 

612. FEUER UND SEITEN GEWEHRE. Beroald-Bianchini. A 
general treatise on small arms. Gerold, Vienna, 1829. 
2 vols. 4to, 38 illustrations, price 8 r. thalers. 

613. ENGLISCHE BUCHSEXMACHER, oder gruendliche An- 
weisung alle Arten von Gewehren, Buchsen und 
pistolen, nebst Percussions, Sicherheitsschlosern und 
iibrigem zubehor, nach den neuesten-Erfurdimgen und 
Verberserungen zu verfertigen nebst. Belehrungen 
iiber die verschiedenen Arsen des Schiers- und Knall- 
pulvers, Nachrichten iiber die bedeutensten Gewehr- 
fabriken Europa's und dgl. mehr. Fiir Buchsenniacher 
und Buchsenschafter. George Christ. Alison. Nach 
dem Englischen bearbeitet und mit mehreren franzo- 
sischen und deutschen Erfindungen und Verlusser- 
ungen vermehrt, mit 103 Abbildungen in Steindruck. 



German Books, 18001850. 77 

Gottfr. Basse, Quedlinburg & Leipzig, 1832. This 
book of 84 pp. and three plates of drawings somewhat 
belies its title. It consists for the most part of de- 
scriptions of new inventions, translations of newspaper 
articles and excerpts from technical papers. It has 
an illustrated description of a double-barrelled breech- 
loading fowling-piece furnished with a safety lock. 
Also a description of an intercepting safety bolt working 
from a lever on the hand of the gun-stock, for which 
invention we are informed that Dr. Romershaufen 
received the Civil- Verdienst-orden from his Majesty. 
The book contains interesting details of improvements 
in gun-locks, the manufacture of detonating balls, 
fulminating powder, and copper caps ; also of thread- 
wound shot cartridges, experiments with wire car- 
tridges, the oval bore, etc. The gun factories at Tulle 
and Votka (Viatka) are described in detail ; but with 
the exception of recipes for browning gun-barrels the 
technical instruction is wanting. 

614. JAGERSCHULE. Chr. F. E. Thon. An instruction- 
book for sportsmen and foresters, with a vocabulary of 
technical words. Various editions (published annually 
with calendar). Ilmenau, 1834. Svo, 25 illustrations. 
6 lithographed plates. Subsequently issued by Voigt, 
Weimar. Price 2th. lOngr. 

615. KUNST auf der Jagd gut zu Schiessen. E. JEichenlaub. 
A practical treatise on the art of shooting with the 
shot gun and sporting rifle ; the various kinds of game 
and methods to be used in aiming, etc., described. 
Contains also a glossary of sporting and technical 
words. Various editions published, some with litho- 
graphed illustrations. Furst, Nordhausen, 1834-41. 
16nao. 

616. VOLKOMMENE JAGER. L. Hoffman. The art of 
expert shooting. According to Souhait, first edition 
appeared in 1811. Tender & Schaefer, Vienna, 1834. 
3rd edition. 



78 Ancient Books. 



617. HULFSBUCH FUR JEDEN GEWEHEBESITZER. A. Spone- 

man. Manual for all who have guns. Brasse, Qued- 
linburg, 1839, 1840. 8vo. 

618. WALDSCHNEPPE. C. Diezel Leipzig. 1839 ; also 
in 1842. 

619. SCHIESS FUR SCHIESS. W. K. Chrestman. Shot 
upon shot. A treatise for sportsmen, game shots, etc. 
Forderer, Villingen, 1843. 12mo. 1 litho. plate. 

620. VOLKOMMENDE JAGD UND SCHEIBEN SCHUTZE. Ch. 
Fr. G. Thon. Instructions for becoming speedily a 
correct shot at game or at target. Voigt, Weimar, 

1843, 1852. 12mo. 

621. HANDBUCH cler Gewehr und Schiesskunde. M. F. 
Elrichs. A guide to the art of shooting, instructions 
for handling guns, written for sportsmen, riflemen and 
military. With illustrations. Brugmann, Leipzig, 

1844, 1849. 8vo. 

622. BEHANDLUNG der percussionsirten Jagd- und Schiit- 
zengewehre. M. F. Elrichs. Full instructions for the 
use of percussion, field and target guns. A handbook 
for the rifleman and the sportsman, with illustrations. 
Furst, Nordhausen, 1846. 12mo. 

623. ZEITUNG FUR BUCHSENHACHER und Gewehr fabri- 
kanten. The Gunmaker's Journal, edited by E. O. 
Schmidt, illustrated. Published by Voigt, Weimar, 
1844, etc. This was the first technical periodical for 
the firearms manufacturers, and nominally appeared 
quarterly, really at irregular intervals. The compiler's 
set shows that six numbers were issued to each volume, 
and that publication ceased with the fifth number of 
the 3rd volume, issued in 1855. Large quarto, litho- 
graphed plates with each issue. 

624. PRAKTISCHER JAGD-BETRIEB. L. Allich. Treatise on 
game shooting and trapping. Landherr, Heilbronn, 
1846. 12mo. 



Italian Books, 18001850. 79 

625. VOLLST. ANWEISUNG AUFSCHEIBEN und bei Jagden 
gilt schiessen zu lernen. L. Allich. Treatise on 
art of target shooting, and use of the gun for sport, 
culled from the most trustworthy sources, with prac- 
tical directions for the acquirement of a difficult art. 
Landherr, Heilbronn, 1846. 12mo. 

626. PRAKTISCHES HANDBUCH DBS GEWEHR-FABRIKANTEN 
UND BUCHSENMACHERS. Eduard Oscar Schmidt. A 
treatise on gunmaking, including directions for all 
branches, and the preparation of the necessary ma- 
terial. It is really only a small pamphlet in a paper 
wrapper compiled by a voluminous producer of trade 
and technical handbooks. [The first portion of the 
book is devoted to practical directions for barrel 
making, browning, smith's work, hardening and tem- 
pering ; the second to the fitting of the patent 
breech, lock-making, sight-filing, and particulars of 
the percussion system. The illustrations consist of 
twelve 8vo pages of lithographs of gun parts, furniture, 
etc., and are not of special interest. The book is of 
the kind from which the intelligent artisan of half a 
century ago might obtain useful hints and designs.] 
Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig, 1848. 8vo, 
paper wrapper, 68 pp., 12 plates. 

627. GEWEHR KENNER. Joh. W. Roux. Practical and 
theoretical treatise on sporting firearms, their use and 
expert handling. 



ITALIAN BOOKS, 18001850. 

701. STRUTTURA E GOVERNO DEL FUCILE DE FANTERIA. 
Seb. Maurizio Sordino. A small book approved by 
the Royal Military Academy. Chirio e Mini, Turin, 
1820. In 8vo. 



80 Ancient Books. 



702. AETE DI FARE LE SCIABOLE DI DAMASCO. Antonio 
Crivelli. This brochure is reprinted from the Pro- 
ceedings of the Institute of Science, Letters and Art, 
and is divided into numerous short chapters, the whole 
in 73 pp. It relates to the manufacture of Damascus 
iron, swords, etc. Royal Press, Milan, 1821. In 8vo, 
73pp. 

703. -FuciLE DI FANTERIA CON ESCA FULMINANTE. S. M. 
Sordino. A work on the percussion gun, which had 
the honour of a French translation. The author was 
Director of the Royal Arms Factory. Fodratti, Turin, 
1839. In 8vo. French edition, 1841. Government 
Print. 

704. MOUVEMENT des projectiles applique aux armes a 
feu. P. A. Arena. A treatise on external ballistics, 
the force of explosives and initial velocities. Turin, 
1839. 

705. MUSEO DEL CACCIATORE. See Musee du Chasseur, of 
which it is a translation. In large 8vo, 72 lithographed 
illustrations. Venezia, 1844. 



SPANISH BOOKS, 18001850. 

801. RESUMO HISTORICO das armas de fogo Portatiles. 
Ant. Huet. de Bacellar. Short account of the history 
and development of hand firearms. Written specially 
for the instruction of military cadets. Imp. Reg., 
Lisbon, 1816. Un foil. 8vo, 75 pp. 

802. CONSTRUCTION DE UNA LLAVE DE FUSIL. D. Joaquin 
de Loresecha. Published in the Mem. Artill., 1844. 
Valencia, 1831. 19 pp., 2 plates. 



Italian Books, 18001850. 81 

803. ARTE para aprender a tuar la escope de dos Canones. 
A treatise on the art of shooting the double gun ; a 
curious work. V. Myar. Madrid, 1834. 8vo. 

804. TRATADO DEL PERFECTO TIRADOR. D. Juan Codies. 
A manual for marksmen. F. Pascual. Madrid, 1834. 
1 vol. 8vo, 3 plates. 

805. TIB DU FUSIL. D. J. Gonzalez y Arcaina. A treatise 
written in French for A. des Bordeliers. Madrid, 
1842. Un foil., 48 pp. 

806. FABRICATION de armas de fuego Portatiles. A paper 
on the manufacture of military rifles, written by 
D. F. A. de Elorza in collaboration with D. F. S. 
Meneses, and appearing in the Mem. Artilleria, 1846. 

807. APUNTES HISTORICOS, etc. D. J. Almirante. His- 
torical notes relative to the introduction of gunpowder 
and the early use of firearms. This paper was inserted 
in the Memoirs of the Artillery for 1847. Pamphlet, 
Svo. 

808. FUSIL DE PISTON. D. Victor Duro. A paper on the 
percussion system, inserted in the Rev. Mil., 1847, 
t. i. 

809. FABRICA DE ARMAS. D. Esteban Guillelmi. An 
account of the arms factory at Seville. Chiefly relating 
to cannon. Appeared in the Mem. de Artill., 1849. 

810. TUBOS DE TIROS de M. Delvigne. D. Pedro de La 
Llave. A description and criticism of the well-known 
invention of M. Delvigne, to enable soldiers to become 
expert marksmen without actual rifle practice. See 
Mem. de Artilleria, 1 series, 7 vol., 461 pp. 



PART II. 

/IDooern Books, 



MODERN ENGLISH BOOKS. 



GUNS AND SHOOTING GUNMAKING GUN 
TKADE PEOOF OF GUNS. 



1001. GUN CLEANING, LOADING, etc. ; being practical hints 
to young sportsmen. G. Webb. A handbook of in- 
structions. Simpkin, 1857. 12mo, 2s. Qd. 

1002. GUNNEKY in 1858. W. Greener. The last of the 
late Mr. W. Greener's books. It is a compendious 
treatise of rifles, cannon and sporting arms, the science 
of gunnery and criticisms of new inventions; full of 
controversial matter; and although embodying " The 
Gun," is inferior in point of originality to previous 
works of the same author. Smith, Elder & Co., 
London, 1858. 8vo, 440 pp., 5 plates, 37 woodcuts, 
15s. Out of print. 

1003. MANUAL OF THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OP FIREARMS. 
J. Deane. A good comprehensive treatise, but con- 
taining little original matter. Longmans, London, 
1858. 8vo, pp. ix, 292, 3 folding plates, woodcuts. 

1004. OUR ENGINES OF WAR, and how we got to make 
them. J. W. Jervis. This is a popular account of 
the introduction of firearms into Europe, their early 
use in Italy, and their adoption by Great Britain, and 
development. It is illustrated with facsimiles from 

85 



86 Modern English Books. 

Valturius, etc., and gives a mass of information in too 
concise form to be absolutely accurate as a guide. 
Chapman, 1859. 8vo, 115 pp., illustrations and appen- 
dices, folding frontispiece. 

1005. THE SHOT GUN AND SPORTING RIFLE. Ej 11 Stone- 
henge" (i.e. J. H. Walsh}. When the author of "British 
Rural Sports " undertook the editorship of the Field in 
1857, he found it necessary to inaugurate two gun 
trials, to settle the breechloader and muzzleloader 
controversy ; and being thereby thrown into close 
intimacy with gunmakers, the author determined to 
set forth from the sportsman's point of view all 
respecting guns and shooting. The contents are : 
"The Theory of Gunnery"; "The Shot Gun" and "The 
Sporting Rifle " ; " Game, the Animals used in the Pur- 
suit of it " ; " Methods of Preserving ; " " Present Game 
Laws." The book is not of equal value to the later 
works of the writer ; it is less technical, more popular 
in style, and less dogmatic, and is of course quite out 
of date as a practical sporting guide, and inferior to 
other books of the same period as a technical work of 
reference to arms. Routledge, Warne & Co., London, 
1859. 8vo, 448 pp., woodcuts, n.e. 1862. 

1006. THE GUN ; and How to Use it. T. B. Johnson. A 
sportsman's manual. Houlston, 1860. Fcap. 8vo, Is. Gd. 

1007. STORY OF THE GUNS. J. Emerson Tennent. Treats 
of the Whitwoi-th invention and rifled ordnance. 
Longmans, London, 1864. 8vo, 364 pp., woodcuts. 

1008. ANOTHER STORY OF THE GUNS. A reply to J. E. 
Tennent. Macmillan, London, 1864. 8vo, 2s. 

1009. SHOOTING. Robert Blakey. " A manual of practical 
information." This little book had a large sale, and 
continued in demand until a couple of years ago, 
although it contains very little of interest to users of 
breechloaders, or relating to shooting in the modern 
manner. G. Routledge & Sons, London. Crown 8vo, 



Guns and Shooting Ounmaki/ng, etc. 87 

1865, 183 pp. New edition illustrated with dra wings 
by Harrison Weir. 

1010. SHOOTING HANDBOOK. By " Newtonensis." Illus- 
trated. Routledge, 1861, 6d. ; 1868, 6d. 

1011. SHOOTING HANDBOOK. Cassell's, 1866. 6d. 

1012. MODERN BREECHLOADERS, Sporting and Military. 
W. W. Greener. The first of a numerous series of 
technical books by the Birmingham gunmaker, who 
was son of and "successor to William Greener, C.E., 
author of ' The Gun,' etc." The Field, in its second 
notice of this work, said : " The whole book is useful 
without being pretentious, at the same time giving 
full information up to the latest date on all questions 
connected with guns and rifles." The book was very 
successful, and the best of its kind at that date, 
although inferior to some of Mr. Greener's later books. 
It has 135 illustrations of breechloading mechanisms 
and parts. Cassell, London, 1871. Crown 8vo, 242 
pp., cloth, 7s. Qd. ; second edition, 1874, reprint with 
appendix. 

1013. THE BREECHLOADER. " Gloan" A sportsman's 
manual, which had a large sale. Woodward, New 
York, $2. 

1014. SHOOTING: its Appliances, Practice, and Purpose. 
J. D. Doug all. This is the best edition of " Shooting 
Simplified," and embodies all the later experience of a 
painstaking experimentalist and indefatigable student. 
The illustrations are inadequate, the notes profuse, 
and the style often discursive ; but the book contains 
too much original information to be undervalued. 
Sampson Low, 1875. 8vo, 358 pp., 10s. 6d. ; new 
edition, 7s. 6fZ. 

1015. CHOKE-BORE GUNS. W. W. Greener. "The object 
of this work is to bring into one focus the leading 
features and present position of one of the greatest 



88 Modern English Books. 

improvements ever made in the shooting of sporting 
guns." Contains full information respecting shot guns 
of the description introduced by the author in 1874, 
with instructions for loading them and using to best 
advantage ; many reports of trials, tests, etc. ; but the 
history of the invention is inferior to that subsequently 
given with fuller descriptions. Cassell & Co., London, 
1876. Svo, 215 pp., woodcuts and numerous folding 
diagrams, tables, etc., detached facsimile targets in 
pockets of cover, 7s. Qd. 

1016. THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT, with Notes on 
Shooting. W. W. Greener. This is the standard work 
for all that relates to the history of hand firearms, 
their varieties, manufacture, capabilities. It is a com- 
pilation by a well-known Birmingham gunmaker, but 
contains a large amount of original matter. The book 
has had a larger sale than all other gun books put 
together : of the first edition alone three thousand 
copies were issued, and five editions were quickly 
exhausted. The contents include a history of firearms, 
descriptions and illustrations of the chief types of 
ancient and modern arms, methods of manufacture, 
proof of arms, ballistics of rifles and of shot guns, gun 
trials, theories, experiments; gunpowder, explosives, 
cartridges, shot, targets, etc., etc. ; the work being in 
fact a cyclopaedia of all relating to guns and shooting. 
The "notes" consist of instructions in the art of 
shooting at the target, at game, and of wing and trap 
shooting, and a gazetteer of the shooting grounds and 
game resorts of both hemispheres. Cassell & Co., 
London, 1881. Extra fcap. 4to, 675 pp., 400 wood- 
cuts, cloth, gilt, 21s. ; now scarce. Second edition, 
1884, 740 pp., cloth, plain. Third edition, 1885, 
768 pp. Fourth edition, 1889, 768 pp., reprint of 
third edition. Fifth edition, 1892, 742 pp. Sixth 
edition, announced, 1894, 700 pp., 10s. Qd. The third 
edition is probably the best. French and Russian 
translations have been published. See Nos. 1506, 1922. 



Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 89 

1017. MODERN SPORTSMAN'S GUN AND RIFLE. J. H. Walsh. 
Vol. I.: "Game and Wildfowl Guns." This is a 
comprehensive work on sporting guns ; contains full 
descriptions of many varieties, most being well illus- 
trated with carefully executed woodcuts. The theo- 
retical portion is cleverly written, and the value of the 
results obtained at the various gun and explosives 
trials promoted by the author is well stated. There 
is no history of guns. The chief contents are : 
"Requirements of the Sportsman's Gun for his various 
purposes," " Trials of the Gun," " Construction of the 
Gun," "The Hammered Breechloader," "The Ham- 
merless," "Explosives, Shot, Cartridges and Loading." 
Book II., "Punt Guns." There is also a Glossary, 
Appendices on " Siemens' Steel for Gun-barrels " and 
" Choke-boring by Compression," and a capital Index. 
The excellent woodcuts are the feature of the work. 
(For Vol. II. see No. 1102.) Horace Cox, London, 
1882. Demy Svo, 460 pp. text and 72 pp. advts. 

1018. SOME WEAPONS OF WAR, as improved by recent 
American inventors. Wallace A. Bartlett. A com- 
pilation from patent specifications, about fifty pages 
devoted to small firearms. Republican Press, Washing- 
ton, D.C., 1883. Svo, 98 pp., zincograph illustrations. 

1019. SPORTING FIREARMS, for Bush and Jungle. F. F. R. 
Burgess. " Hints to intending griffs and colonists on 
the purchase, care and use of firearms, with useful 
notes on sporting rifles, etc." Some commonplace re- 
marks, rather superfluous advice, and poor illustrations 
drawn by the author. The last chapter, treating of 
Indian experiences, is the best. W. H. Allen, London, 
1884. Svo, 136 pp., 7 plates. 

1020. SHOOTING. Lord Walsingham and Sir R. P. Gallwey. 
These two volumes of the Badminton Series consist 
of Vol. I." Field and Covert." A short history of 
game shooting, hints for beginners, short history of 
gunmaking, prices of guns, choice of guns, shooters, 



90 Modern English Books. 

partridge shooting, pheasant shooting, rearing, rabbit 
shooting, vermin, keepers, poachers and poaching, dogs 
and dog breaking, pigeon shooting from traps ; index. 
The chapter on trap shooting is the best in the volume, 
which is, however, a readable compilation, well illus- 
trated and carefully indexed. Vol. II. " Moor and 
Marsh." Contains grouse, black game, deer stalking, 
deer forests, woodcock, snipe, wildfowl, surface-feeding 
ducks, diving ducks, waders, rails and cranes, shore 
shooting, punting, fowling punts, swivel guns, a little 
plain law for game preservers, index. There is also a 
short bibliography of wildfowling ; but, on the whole, 
the volume is inferior to the former; it is cleverly 
illustrated. Longmans, London, 1886. 8vo; vol. i., 
358 pp. ; vol. ii., 348 pp. ; price 10s. Qd. each vol. 

1021. TREATISE ON MILITARY SMALL ARMS. Lieut.-Col. 
H. Bond. 1884, 8vo. Military textbook (official). 

1022. PRACTICAL HINTS ON SHOOTING. By " 20-Bore " (i.e. 
Basil Tozer). An ambitious work by a young sports- 
man. Kegan Paul, 1887, 8vo. 472 pp., 55 illustrations. 

1023. MODERN SHOT GUNS. W. W. Greener. The sporting 
gun treated historically, descriptively, analytically, 
technically, specifically, critically, and practically. 
Additional chapters on ammunition and trap shooting. 
This is by far the most scientific of Mr. Greener's 
books, and the best written ; it contains in a small 
compass all that sportsmen wish to know of the 
varieties of sporting weapons and of their capabilities. 
Cassell & Co., London, 1888. Large 8vo, 192 pp., wood- 
cuts and diagrams, cloth, 5s. Another edition, 1891, 
202 pp., additional . illustrations, 5s.; also editions in 
German, Spanish and Italian. The English editions 
are not now easily obtainable. 

1024. LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS. Sir Ralph Payne- 
Gallwey, Bart. First series, " on the choice and use of 
a gun," contains much controversial matter, and some 



Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 91 

of the statements gave offence to particular gunmakers 
when the letters appeared as a serial in The Field. 
The second series on theories, experiments, and com- 
parisons. Both volumes are well illustrated, have a 
capital index, and fulfil the object with which they 
were written. Longmans, 1890. Svo ; vol. i., 263 pp.; 
vol. ii., 274 pp. ; Appendices ; woodcuts, diagrams, etc. 
n.e. 1893 (Third edition) ; price 7s. 6cZ. each vol. 

1025. SOMETHING ABOUT GUNS AND SHOOTING. "Purple 
Heather.'" A chatty book of reminiscences ; hints to 
sportsmen and comments upon sporting doings and 
equipment. Alexander & Shepheard, 1890, 1891. Svo, 
150 pp., cloth, Is. 

1026. A FEW PRACTICAL REMARKS ON GAME SHOOTING AND 
ITS ACCESSORIES. " Purple Heather." A short treatise 
on the art of shooting, with hints on sporting equip- 
ment, etc. Alexander & Shepheard, London, 1893. 
Svo, Is., paper cover. 

1027. THE BREECH-LOADER, AND How TO USE IT. W. W. 
Greener. " Written for that numerous class of sports- 
men who delight in a day's shooting, but have neither 
the time nor the means to make the sport a life's 
study." Not so technical as most of Mr. Greener's 
books ; consists of nine chapters descriptive of guns, 
instructions for their use, shooting etiquette, art of 
shooting on wing, trap shooting, etc., etc. The price 
is nominal, as the work is Avell printed in large type 
and on good paper. Cassell & Co., London. 1892. 
Svo, 288 pp., woodcuts, paper boards. Second edition, 
1894. 2s. Qd. 

1028. BIG GAME SHOOTING. C. Phillips-Wolley. Two 
volumes of the Badminton Library. The first, contri- 
buted to by Sir G. Baker, W. C. Oswell, F. F. Jackson, 
Warburton Pike, and F. C. Selous, deals with African 
sport and the big game of North America, and its 
450 pages contain more sporting information than is 



92 Modern English Books. 



found in all books of African travel put together, and 
is a capital volume. The second is not so good, and is 
more general ; but the Indian section, by R. H. Percy, 
is very well done and as fully as could be expected. 
Arctic Hunting, by Arnold Pike, is capital, and so are 
the chapters on the Caucasian Aurochs, the Ovis 
Argali of Mongolia and the Ovis Poli of the Pamir, by 
S. G. Littledale. Scandinavian elk shooting, by Sir 
H. Pottinger, is comprehensive, and the chapters on 
the Caucasus, camp transport, etc., by C. Phillips- 
Wolley, are in his best style. The remaining sections 
are devoted to Chamois, the Stag of the Alps, by 
W. Baillie-Grohman ; European Big Game, by A. H. 
Percy and the Earl of Kilmorey ; The Large 
Game of Spain and Portugal, by A. Chapman and 
W. J. Buck; Taxidermy; and Notes on Rifles and 
Ammunition. These volumes are not a cyclopaedia of 
large game shooting, but they treat of the most 
popular hunting grounds in an admirable manner. 
The books are well illustrated, and have both indices 
and a short bibliography. The natural history notes 
might have been omitted, and sport in the Malay 
Peninsula, Java, Borneo, etc., substituted with ad- 
vantage. Longmans, 1894. 8vo ; vol. i., 453 pp.; 
vol. ii.j 443 pp. ; 10s. Qd. each, and large-paper edition 
also issued. 

1029. MODERN AMERICAN PISTOL AND REVOLVER. A. C. 
Gould. Contains a description of modern pistols and 
revolvers of American make ; ammunition used in 
these arms ; results accomplished ; and the shooting 
rules followed by American marksmen. A useful 
little book. In addition to illustrations of pistols and 
diagrams, has portraits of noted shots and the positions 
they assume in aiming. A. C. Gould & Co., Boston, 
Mass., 1888. 8vo, 138 pp. 

1030. DIGEST OF PATENTS relating to B/L. and Magazine 
Small Arms (except revolvers) granted in the United 
States from 1836 to 1873 inclusive, classified and 



Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 93 

arranged according to the movement of the principal 
parts for opening and closing the breech. By V. D. 
Stockbridge, Examiner United States Patent Office 
in charge of firearms, etc. Washington, D.C., 1875. 
4to, 172 pp., of which one half consists of illustrations. 
Index to names of patentees, etc. 

1031. PATENTS : ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS. Fire- 
arms and other weapons, ammunition and accoutrements. 
Part I., 15881858, small Svo, Is. 4d. Part IA., 1858 
-1866, 12mo, 2s. 2d. 

1032. PATENTS : Firearms, Ammunition, etc. Division I., 
Weapons, Part II., 18671876. 12mo, 4s. Qd. 

1033. PATENTS : Firearms, Ammunition. Division II., 
Ammunition, Part II., 1867 1876. Svo, 2s. Bd. 

1034. NEW SERIES ABRIDGMENTS. Division I., Firearms, 
Part III., 18771883. Svo, 3s. 

1035. NEW SERIES ABRIDGMENTS. Division II. Ammuni- 
tion, Part III., 18771883. Svo, 2s. 

1036. MSS. MANUFACTURE OF FIREARMS. Richard 
Prosser, C.E. Deals with methods current in 
Birmingham about 1850. Patent Office Library, 
London, No. 10954 137K, 14ff, and press notices of 
R. Prosser. 

1037. GUN ORNAMENTATION. A series of forty-five to fifty 
sheets of lithographed designs suited for models for the 
ornamentation of sporting firearms, revolvers, etc. Was 
issued at Leipzig and Antwerp, 1860. A complete set 
is not now readily obtainable. See also an illustrated 
article by W. 0. Greener in The Magazine of Art, 
February 1891. 

1038. GUN ORNAMENTATION. Plusieurs modeles des plus 
nouvelles manieres qui sont en usage en 1'art d'arqui- 
buzerie. A series of engravings \yjJacquinet, preceded 
by some quaint plates illustrating the gunmaker at 
work. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1892, facsimile 
reprint from the 1660 edition. Oblong folio, plates, 15s. 



94 Modern English Books. 

1039. GUNMAKING BY MACHINERY. An article in the 
Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. xix., p. 423. 

1040. GUNMAKING IN THE UNITED STATES. Rogers Birnie. 
This is a monograph on ordnance construction issued 
by the Public Service Publishing Co., New York, 1888. 
Demy 8vo, 123 pp., plates and diagrams. 

1041. REPORT. On the Manufacture of Firearms and 
Ammunition in the United States. C. H. Fitch. This 
is an extra Census Bulletin compiled by a special agent, 
and contains accurate and well illustrated descriptions 
of the methods of making rifles, guns, revolvers, and 
metallic ammunition by machinery, as practised in 
New England and at the Springfield Factory. 
Washington, D. C., 1882. 4to, 38 pp., woodcuts. 

1042. GUNSMITH'S MANUAL. J. P. Stelle and W. B. Harri- 
son. Described as a "Complete Handbook for the 
Apnerican Gunsmith, being a practical guide to all 
branches of the trade." This book is really a collec- 
tion of workshop recipes and hints, and is designed 
to furnish such information as shall be of most use 
as a guide to the everyday conduct of the shop, and 
for such demands or emergencies as are liable to 
challenge the skill of the workmen. It does not 
assume to guide the skilled manufacturer in the 
management of a large factory ; it is intended rather 
as a guide to the workman in acquiring, first, a prac- 
tical knowledge in every branch of his calling; and, 
secondly, in the proper conduct of his business when 
he is established in a shop of his own. The work 
covers descriptions of guns and pistols, gun-stocks, gun- 
barrels, tools for breeching guns, tools for chambering 
breechloading barrels ; gun-ribs, thimbles, rifling guns, 
gun-locks, fitting gun-hammers, nipples or cones, 
springs, rods, bullet moulds, screw-making tools, and 
in fact everything necessary to the instruction of the 
working gunsmith in his handicraft. Jesse Haney 
& Co., New York, 1883. 8vo, 376 pp., 3 folding 
plates, woodcuts, etc., in text; price $2. 



Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 95 

1043. SIGHT-MAKING MACHINERY. An introductory account 
of Messrs. Muir & Co.'s improved machinery for the 
manufacture of rifle sights. By G. F. Partinyton. 
London, 1857. Printed for private circulation. Svo, 
40 pp., woodcuts. 

1044. BULLET-MAKING MACHINE. Illustrated descriptions 
of Ward's bullet machine, shell-moulding machine, 
and self-centering railway turn-table. London, 1863. 
Demy Svo, 12 pp., plates. 

1045. GUN TRADE. London Gunmakers' Company. The 
best account of this Company, its charter, its history, 
its powers, its revenue, and its work, is given in the 
Export of the Royal Commission on the City Com- 
panies, vol. iii., 1884. 

1046. GUN TRADE. THE CASE OF THE GUNMAKERS. A 
petition by the London Gunmakers' Company asking 
that the importation of weapons may be discontinued 
and the sale of foreign-made small arms prohibited. 
Single sheet folio, 1680 (Brit. Mus. Collection). 

1047. GUN TRADE. THE CASE OF THE COMPANY OF GUN- 
MAKERS OF LONDON. This petition refers to the one 
presented in 1680, and complains that arms were 
bought and paid for in cash in Holland ; that English 
arms were not ordered, and for those ordered and 
delivered payment could not be obtained, ,30,000 
being then due to the Company from the Government. 
Single sheet folio, 1710 (Brit. Mus. Collection). 

1048. GUN TRADE, BIRMINGHAM. The best account of 
the introduction of the firearms trade into Bir- 
mingham, and its progress, is contained in an article 
contributed by F. Godwin, F.S.A., to The Gentleman's 
Magazine of February 1869. 

1049. GUN TRADE. The Gunsmiths' Queries. This is 
a political tract rehearsing the facts given in the 
petitions of 1706 and 1710, and still further com- 
plaining of the support given to foreign manufacturers, 



96 Modem English Books. 

and the want of work at home. Single sheet folio. 
Printed 1710. 

1050. GUN TRADE. Pamphlets. A number of pamphlets, 
reprints of newspaper articles, correspondence, etc., 
relating to the firearms trade of Birmingham, circa 
1860, are conserved in the Birmingham Reference 
Library. Catalogue No. 60394. 

1051. GUN TRADE. The Firearms Industry of Birming- 
ham. An article contributed by J. D. Goodman to 
the Handbook of Birmingham Manufactures, edited 
by S. Timmins, 1866. 8vo. 

1052. GUNMAKER OF Moscow. S. Cobb. A Novel. New 
York. 16mo, SI. 

1053. GUNMAKER OF Moscow. This is the title of a 
costume play, temp. Peter the Great, in French's 
Acting Edition. Several musical pieces bear the same 
title. 

1054. PROOF ACTS. The Acts of Parliament relating to 
the proving of firearms are private acts, not public 
statutes ; and the only complete copies known to the 
compiler are conserved in the Reference Library at 
Birmingham. They are: the Acts of 1813 and 1815, 
Catalogue No. 17720; the Act of 1855, Cat. No. 
17904; the Act of 1867, Cat. No. 34964; the Act of 
1868, Cat. No. 17953. Under the heading of "Gun 
Trade " in the same catalogue there will be found a 
reference to the " New Rules of Proof " adopted in 
1888, and to copies of the Proof House Annual 
Reports since 1888. See also under "Gun Trade," 
and numerous articles in The Sporting Goods Review, 
vols. i. vi. 

1055. PROOF HOUSE. The present proof company the 
bane of the Gun Trade : a letter addressed to the 
masters and journeymen gunmakers of the kingdom. 
By William Greener, Ass. Inst. C.E. A pamphlet in- 



Rifles. The Volunteer Movement, etc. 97 

dieting the wardens of the Proof House. It was owing 
to the publication of this letter that the Gun Barrel 
Proof Act of 1855 was promoted. Guest, Birmingham, 
1845. 8vo, 12 pp. 

1056. NOTES ON THE PROOF OP GUNS. J. H. Walsh. (?) 
Comments on the new rules and scales of proof passed 
in 1888, with various letters, etc., reprinted from the 
Field. Mr. Walsh died whilst this brochure was at 
press; it was really produced in order to prove that 
the course taken by the Field in demanding a better 
proof test was justified. Horace Cox, London, 1888. 
8vo, 54 pp., Is. See also Nos. 1535-42. 



RIFLES. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. 
MONOGRAPHS OF SPECIAL ARMS. 

1101. MODERN AMERICAN EIFLES. "Ralph Greenwood" 
(J. C. Gould). Contains descriptions of processes of 
manufacturing ; appliances used by riflemen for 
hunting and target shooting ; directions for bullet 
making and reloading cartridges ; positions adopted in 
various styles of shooting ; trajectories of rifles ; a 
record of inventions, improvements, and work accom- 
plished with American rifles. A fairly written and 
comprehensive monograph of American target rifles, 
with some excellent criticism of their qualities as 
sporting arms. Bradlee Whidden, Boston, 1893. 8vo, 
338 pp., woodcuts and diagrams ; 2 dollars 50 cents. 

1102. MODERN SPORTSMAN'S GUN AND RIFLE. J. H. Walsh. 
Vol. II. "The Sporting Rifle, Match Rifle, and 
Revolver." The chief contents of this volume are : 
" Definition of Terms used in reference to the Rifle 
itself," " Rifling Machines," " Theory of Projectiles by 

7 



98 Modern English Books. 

' TV " " The Mechanical Construction of the Sporting 
Rifle and its Ammunition," " Modern Rifled Pistols," 
" Match or Target Rifle and its Ammunition." This 
book contains by far the best introduction to scientific 
gunnery ; its fault is that it is too technical and 
elaborate for the firearms maker, and quite beyond 
the understanding of the general reader. Copious 
extracts are made from the " Proceedings of the Royal 
Society," and the work of Professor Bashforth is 
utilised. The author acknowledges the assistance 
received from the late Mr. F. Osborne, and there are 
numerous contributions from gunmakers and others 
embodied in the work, which can be regarded as the 
best compilation of its kind, and affording the readiest 
reference to the multitudinous technical subjects of 
which it treats. H. Cox, 1884. Demy 8vo, 544 pp. 
and 72 pp. advts., woodcuts and diagrams. 

1103. THE RIFLE; its effects on the War; on National 
Military Organisation and preparation for Defence. 
J. Le Conteur. A brochure written by " one of the 
rejected," and evidently inspired by the Crimean 
campaign. Contains a folding plate of target shield. 
Parker, Furnival, & Parker, London, 1855. Svo, 
132 pp., cloth limp. 

1104. THE RIFLEMAN. Captain Rafter. A book of ad- 
ventures. Routledge, 1858. Is. Qd. 

1105. RIFLE and Revolver Clubs. P. E. Dove. Longmans, 
1858. 3s. Qd. 

1106. PROSE AND POETRY about Rifle Clubs. M. F. Tupper. 
Routledge, 1859. Qd. 

1107. RIFLE CLUBS and Volunteer Corps. W. H. Russell. 
Routledge, 1859. Is. Qd. 

1108. RIFLE VOLUNTEER'S HANDY BOOK. W. G. Hartley 
Saunders, 1859. 7s. Qd. 



Rifles. The Volunteer Movement, etc. 99 

1 109. MANUAL for Rifle Volunteers. J. Boucher. Mitchell. 
1859. 5s. 

1110. RIFLE AND VOLUNTEER CORPS. L. Jewitt. Ward 
& Lock, 1860. Is. 

1111. STORIES about Riflemen and Rifles. JV. Thornton. 
A compilation. Whittaker, 1860. Is. 

1112. RIFLEMAN'S Book of Jokes. Abingdon, 1861. Qd. 

1113. RIFLEMAN'S RECORD of Target Practice. fi. Pinkney. 
A score-book. Whittaker, 1860. 

1114. RIFLEMAN'S REGISTER. R. Brewin. A score-book. 
Leicester, 1861. 2s. Qd. 

1115. BURY REGISTER of Rifle Practice. Virtue, 1863. 
12mo. 2s. 

1116. DARBY REGISTER of Rifle Practice. Hamilton, 
1861. Is. 

1117. SCORING BOOK. New and Improved Rifle Shot's 
Register. Gale and Polden, Woolwich, 1894. 16rno, Is. 

1118. SCORING BOOK. Andrews, Woolwich. Is. 
1119. SCORING BOOK. Parker, Birmingham. Is. 

1120. SCORING BOOK. Shooting Register. Spiers & Son. 
2s. Qd. 

1121. RIFLE SIMPLIFIED. J. D. Dougall. A familiar 
treatise on an important weapon, and on its efficiency 
for national defence. A. Hall, Glasgow, 1859. Svo, Is. 

1122. RIFLES; and Rifle Practice. C. M. Wikox. New 
York, 1860. 

1123. LECTURES on the Rifle. E. C. Walford. Marl- 
borough, 1860. 2s. 

1124. RIFLE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. A. Walker. 
Longmans, 1865. Svo, 5s. 

1125. RIFLE ; its Theory and Practice, Judd, New York, 
n.d. 50 c. 



100 Modern English Books. 

1126. BREECHLOADING RIFLES. V. D. Majendie and C. 0. 
Browne. Detailed notes on the Snider and Martini 
rifles and Boxer ammunition. 4 pts. Woolwich, and 
Simpkin, London, 1869. 8vo, 3s. Qd. 

1127. THE ENFIELD-PRITCHETT RIFLE. 1854. 8vo. New 
edition, 1859. 2s. 

1128. SNIDER RIFLE; its construction. Simpkin, 1871. 
8vo, Is. 

1129. RIFLE RANGERS. Captain Mayne Reid. Fiction. 
Chapman, 1873, and numerous editions. 

1130. CRITICAL DISCUSSION of Systems of Rifling and 
Projectiles. J. S. Butler. Van Nostrand, New 
York, 1875. $7.50. 

1131. MAGAZINE AND SMALL BORE RIFLES. Report by 
C. G. Slade (official). Harrison & Sons, etc., 1888. 
2 parts, 12 pp., foolscap folio. 

1132. NEEDLE GUN. M. U. Sears. A full descriptive 
specification of the Sears' breechloader, adapted for 
military and sporting use. M. U. Sears, London, 
1851. Demy 8vo, 24 pp. and folding plate. 

1133. HENRY BREECHLOADER. A series of reprints from 
various periodicals, temp. 1868, descriptive circulars, 
etc., collected into one volume, are in the London Patent 
Library. 

1134. THE WHITWORTH RIFLE. Sir J. Whitivorth. "Rifled 
Small Arms " is one of a series of papers on mechanical 
subjects by Sir J. Whitworth, and contains some 
controversial matter, and is an important contribution 
to the Enfield Controversy. E. and F. N. Spou, 
London, 1852. 4to, 42 pp. 

1135. MACHINE GUNS. Most of the machine guns, the 
Gatling, the Hotchkiss, the Nordenfeldt, and the quick- 
firing Driggs Schroeder are described and illustrated 



Gunnery, Ballistics, Field Trials, etc. 101 

in quarto volumes, privately printed and published by 
the inventors, patentees or manufacturers. Some are 
published by Simpkin, and in the case of the Norden- 
feldt the price is fixed at 30s. 



GUNNERY, BALLISTICS, FIELD TRIALS, ART 
OF RIFLE SHOOTING. 

1151. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, on Gunnery, etc., for the 
use of officers of the Auxiliary Forces at Woolwich and 
Shoeburyness. F. W. Panzera. Clowes, 1882. Svo, 
76 pp. ; third edition, 1892, pp. xvi, 146. 

1152. TREATISE ON FIREARMS. F. C. Simons. Dalton, 
1857. Post Svo, 2s. Qd. 

1153. GUNNERY MANUAL, for the Fleet. Official text- book. 
Harrison, 1873. 2s. 

1154. GUNNERY INSTRUCTOR. E. Barret. An American 
service manual. New York, 1862. 7s. Qd. 

1155. POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO RIFLED ORDNANCE. 
Simpkin, London, 1871. Is. 

1156. GUNNER'S POCKET BOOK. T. W. Bridges. This is 
a treatise for the artilleryman. Spur, 1871. Svo, Is. 

1157. GUNNERY CATECHISM. J. D. Brandt. A service 
book. (American.) Triibner, London, 1864. ISmo, 
7s. Qd. 

1158. ELEMENTS OF GUNNERY. J. T. Hyde. London, 
Allen, 1861. Svo. 12s. 

1159. SCIENCE OF GUNNERY. T. A. Blakely. Ridgway, 
London, 1867. Is. 



102 Modern English Books. 

1160. LEADING PRINCIPLES OF GUNNERY. F. L. Simons. 
Particularly those parts of it relating to rotatory 
motion ; the Minie, Jacobian, and other practical facts 
examined. Thacker, Calcutta, 1859. 8vo, 4s. Qd. 

1161. TRAJECTORIES OF AMERICAN HUNTING RIFLES. A 
series of tests made by the Forest and Stream, at the 
Creedmoor Range, Sept. 26th to Oct. 19th, 1885. 
Office of Forest and Stream, New York, 1885. Paper, 
96 pp., folding table. Illustrated. 50 cents. 

1162. REPORTS on Experiments made with the Bashforth 
Chronograph, to determine the resistance of the Air 
to the motion of Projectiles, 1865-70. W. Clowes & 
Son, London, 84/B/1941. Demy 8vo, 170 pp., tables, 
folding plates of trajectories, etc. 

1163. TABLES of remaining Velocity, Time of Flight and 
Energy of various Projectiles, calculated from the 
Results of Experiments made with the Bashforth 
Chronograph, 1865-70. London, 1871. 

1 164. MATHEMATICAL TREATISE on the Motion of Projectiles, 
founded chiefly on the results of experiments made 
with the Bashforth Chronograph. Asher & Co., 
London, 1873. Demy 8vo, 132 pp., 82 pp. tables, 
frontispiece illustrating chronograph. 

1165. Supplement to No. 1162. Same publishers, London, 
1881. 

1166. REPORT on Experiments made with the Bashforth 
Chronograph to determine the resistance of the Air to 
the motion of Elongated Projectiles (Part II.), 1878-9. 
Printed for the Stationery Office, 84/B/2853, 1879. 

1167. FINAL REPORT on Experiments made with the 
Bashforth Chronograph to determine the resistance of 
the Air to the motion of Elongated Projectiles. 1878-80. 
W. Clowes & Sons, etc., London, 1881. 



Gunnery, Ballistics, Field Trials, etc. 103 

1168. BASHFORTH CHRONOGRAPH. Francis Bashforth. "A 
revised account of experiments made with the Bash- 
forth Chronograph, to find the resistance of the air 
to the motion of projectiles, with the application of 
the results to the calculation of trajectories according 
to J. Bernoule's method." Also calculated tables. 
University Press, Cambridge, 1890. Demy 8vo, 318 pp. 

1169. REPORT. The Field Trial of Explosives. A full 
account of the results obtained at the Field trial of 
explosives in choke-bore and cylinder shot guns. H. 
Cox, Field office, 1878. Demy 4to pamphlet. 

1170. REPORT. The Field Trial of Large and Small 
Bores. A full account of the results obtained at the 
Field trials instituted in 1879 to determine the 
relative values of 12, 16, and 20 bores for sporting 
purposes. H. Cox, Field office, 1879. Demy 4to 
pamphlet, with illusti'ations of the Field rest and 
" force gauge." 

1171. TABLE OF CALCULATIONS for use with the Field 
Force Gauge. J. II. Walsh. H. .Cox, London, 1882. 
4to. 

1172. REPORT. The Field Gun Trials of 1875. This 
is the report of the committee of sportsmen appointed 
by the proprietors of the Field to watch the trials 
carried out under the superintendence of the Editor, 
J. H. Walsh, to determine which of the makes of guns 
submitted for trial gave the best shooting. The trials, 
which will be found fully reported in the Field of 
May 1875, proved the superiority of the choke-bore 
guns in general, and of W. W. Greener's make in 
particular ; from them may be dated the modern era 
of gunmaking. Horace Cox, Field Office, 1875. 
Demy 8vo, illustration of prize cup, tables, etc. 
Pamphlet. 

1173. PRACTICAL HINTS on Rifle Practice with military 
arms. Orange Judd Co., New York, 1883. 12mo, 
36 pp. 



104 Modern English Books. 

1174. RIFLE SHOOTING POSITIONS; On the Hythe School 
of Musketry Instruction in Rifle Shooting. J. Mac- 
Greyor. A reprint from the Journal of the Society 
of Arts of May 17th, 1861. It has some illustrations 
of old-fashioned positions in shooting. The Orderly 
Room of the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers, 1861. 
4to, ten pages, Id. 

1175. THE RIFLE AND How TO USE IT. J. V. Bridgeman. 
This is the title of a one-act farce in Lacy's collection. 
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 
September 20th, 1859. French, Strand, London. Qd. 

1176. CRACK SHOT. E. C. Barber. The young rifleman's 
guide : a treatise on the use of the rifle, with rudi- 
mentary and finishing lessons ; including a full 
description of the latest improved breechloading 
weapons, illustrated with numerous engravings; rules 
and regulations for target practice ; directions for 
hunting game found in the United States and British 
provinces, etc., etc. The hunting notes are very short ; 
the book is useful as showing the state of arms 
manufacture in the United States after the war. 
W. A. Townsend Adams, New York, 1868. 8vo, 
342 pp., appendix and advertisements, woodcuts of 
guns, parts, and diagrams. Price $1 75 c. 

1177. PRACTICE OF RIFLE FIRING. Captain Thackeray. 
The substance of three lectures delivered at Bath, with 
a description of prismatic telometer. Parker & Co., 
London, 1853. 8vo, 44 pp. and litho. plates. 

1178. HINTS TO RIFLEMEN. H. W. S. Cleveland. Apple- 
ton, New York, 1864. $1 50 c. 

1179. HANDBOOK FOR RIFLEMEN. G. 0. Starr. One of 
the Forest and Stream manuals. Ford, New York, 
1876. 50 c. 

1180. INSTRUCTION in Rifle and Carbine Firing. S. E 
Blunt. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1885. $2 net. 



Gunnery, Ballistics, Field Trials, etc. 105 

1181 MANUAL OF RIFLE PRACTICE. G. W. Wingate. This 
work includes a complete guide to instruction in the 
use and care of the modern breechloader. W. T. 
and T. P. Church, New York, 1872. 16mo, 186 pp., 
illustrated. $1 50 c. 

1182. MATCH SHOOTING with the Enfield Rifle. New- 
castle and London, 1866. Is. 

1183. RIFLE SHOOTING. Heaton. Longmans, 186- ; new 
edition, 1865. 2s. 6d. 

1184. RUDIMENTS OF RIFLE PRACTICE. C. H. Fenton. 
Simpkin, circa 1865. 8vo. Is. Qd. 

1185. COMPANION to the Rifle Musket. Sir B. Browne. 
Allen, 1859. 2s. 

1186. RIFLE PRACTICE. J. Jacob. Smith, Elder & Co., 
1856, 1858. 2s. 

1187. MANUAL OF TARGET PRACTICE FOR UNITED STATES 
ARMY. G. L. Willan. Claxton; Lippincott, New 
York, 1862. 75 c. 

1188. SYSTEM OF TARGET PRACTICE. H. Heih. Van 
Nostrand, New York, 1862. 75 c. 

1189. ON SOLDIERS SHOOTING. H. de B. Novell. Being 
vol. xxxvii. of Gale and Polden's Military Series. 
Gale and Polden, and Simpkin, London, 1888. Post 
8vo, pp. 37. Is. Qd. 

1190. HINTS ON RIFLE SHOOTING. A pamphlet issued 
from the office of Land and Water, attributed to Sir 
Henry Halford, Bart. 1889. 8vo, Is. 



106 Modern English Books. 



CURRENT ENGLISH SPORTING BOOKS. 

LADIES AND FIELD SPORTS SPORTS GENERALLY BIO- 
GRAPHIES TALES MISCELLANEOUS. 

1201. SPORTING SKETCHES. "Diane Chasseresse." A 
series of cleverly written and interesting reminiscences 
of a sportswoman with the gun. Macmillan, 1890. 
8vo, illustrations, 6s. 

1202. GENTLEWOMAN'S BOOK OF SPORTS. A volume of 
the Victoria Library, edited by Lady Beatrice Violet 
Greville. The shooting department is from the pen 
of " Diane Chasseresse." London, 1892. 8vo. 

1203. LADIES IN THE FIELD. A compilation on outdoor 
sports for ladies, edited by Lady B. V. Greville. The 
shooting portion contributed by " Diane Chasseresse " 
and Miss Leale. Ward & Downey, London, 1893. 
Crown 8vo. 

1204. MERRIE ENGLAND; its Sports and Pastimes. Lord 
W. Lennox. Of little sporting interest. Newby, 
1857. 12s. 

1205. PICTURES OF SPORTING LIFE. Lord W. Lennox. 
Hurst & Blackett, 1859. 2 vols., post 8vo., 21s. 

1206. RECREATIONS OF A SPORTSMAN. Lord W. Lennox. 
Hurst & Blackett, 1862. 2 vols., post 8vo, 21s. 

1207. MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME. By George 
Daniel, with etchings and other illustrations by John 
Leech and G. Cruikshank. Of no shooting interest. 
London, 1842; new edition 1869. 8vo, 2 vols. 

1208. OLD ENGLISH SPORTS ; Pastimes and Customs. 
Peter Hampson-Ditchfield. Methuen & Co., 1891. 
8vo, pp. xii, 132. 



Current English Sporting Books. 107 

1209. MODERN ENGLISH SPORTS. F. Gale. Sampson Low, 
1885. Svo, 6s. 

1210. COUNTRY SPORTS. There is a chapter on shooting 
in this compilation. Ward & Lock, 1882. Post Svo, Is. 

1211. SPORTS AND RECREATIONS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. 
Sonnenschein, 1888. Svo, 2s. 

1212. SPORTING ANECDOTES, Annals, Descriptions, Tales 
and Incidents. Hamilton, London, 1S8-. Svo. 

1213. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COUNTRY LIFE. /. K. Foider. 
Social, Political, Agricultural, and some Sporting 
Reminiscences. Longmans, London, 1894. Svo, 
256 pp., 10s. Qd. 

1214. FORTY-FIVE YEARS' SPORT. J. H. Corballis. Edited 
by A. T. Fisher. Bentley & Son, 1891. Svo, pp. x, 502. 

1215. OLD SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN. J. Randall. An 
account of the Willey Country, Biographical Anecdotes 
of Hunting, etc. Virtue, 1873, 1875. Svo, 7s. 6d, 5s. 

1216. THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN (J. Mytton). " Nimrod " 
(i.e. C. J. Appei-ley). This book is much .sought after, 
possibly on account of its 35 coloured illustrations by 
Alken. London. Royal Svo, plates. Yalue 1 10s. 

1217. BROOKLANDS. A sporting biography. H. B. Hall. 
Newby, 1852. 2 vols., post Svo, 21s. 

121S. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GAMEKEEPER. John Wilkins 
of Stanstead, Essex. A book of interesting reminis- 
cences. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Svo, illustrated, 6s. 

1219. MR. SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR. Illustrated by Leech. 
Caricatures. Bradbury, 1852. Svo, 14s. 

1220. TOMMIBEG SHOOTINGS. T. Jeans. A facetious work. 
London, 1860. 8vo. 



108 Modern English Books. 

1221. A SHOOTING ADVENTURE. Talberg. A tale with- 
out words. Simpkin, 1889. Square 16ino, Qd. 

1222. TALES FOR SPORTSMEN. "Dragon." Illustrated by 
G. Bowers. Simpkiii, 1885, 1887. Svo, 10s. Qd. ; '2s. Qd. 

1223. THE GUN RUNNER. Bertram Milford. A romance 
of Zululand. Chatto & Windus, London, 1893. Svo, 
frontispiece by S. L. Wood. 

1224. SPORT AND ITS PLEASURES. E. G. Grenville-Murray. 
London, 1859. Svo. 

1225. SPORT AND ITS PLEASURES. An essay in " Palatable 
Essays." Lucullus Hall. 

1226. HORNS AND HOOFS. R. Lydekker. A book on 
hoofed animals ; wild oxen, pigs, sheep, goats, Asian 
and African antelopes, the deer of Asia and South 
America, ancient and modern rhinoceroses. With 
illustrations. H. Cox, 1893. Svo, pp. xv, 411. 30s. 

1227. NOTES ON GAME SHOOTING. J. J. Manley. Re- 
printed from The Country. J. U. Gill, 1880. Svo, 
389 pp., illustrated. 

1231. HANDBOOK OF THE GAME LAWS. G. C. Okes. The 
legal digest of Acts relating to game-preserving and 
the prevention of poaching. Butterworths, 1881, 3 e.p. 
Svo, 16s. Supplement separate, 2s. Gd. 

1232. CURIOSITIES OF THE GAME LAWS. Hugh Barclay. 
A reprint of an article in Journal of Jurisprudence, 
with additions. Glasgow, 1864. 8vo. 

1233. PRACTICAL GAME-PRESERVING. W. Carnegie. A guide 
to the preservation and propagation of winged game 
and the destruction of vex-min. Bazaar office, 1884. 21s. 

1234. A FEW HINTS ON GAME-PRESERVING. E. J. F. 
London (privately printed?), 1894. 

1235. LAW OF FIELD SPORTS. G. P. Smith. Judd, New 
York, 1886. $1. 



Current English Sporting Books. 109 

1236. GAME LAWS. A Compendium of the Laws relating 
to Game and Game Fish. Revised to date, and edited 
by Charles B. Reynolds. The scope of the work em- 
braces all the laws relating to game and game fish of 
every State and Territory in the Union and British 
Provinces. The better to insure accuracy, all the 
important sections are given in their full text, as they 
appear on the statute-books. Forest and Stream Co., 
New York. 8vo pamphlet. Price 50 cents. 

1237. GAME LAWS IN BRIEF. Laws of the United States 
and Canada relating to Game and Fish Seasons. For 
the guidance of sportsmen and anglers. Compiled by 
Charles B. Reynolds. Forest and Stream Co., New York. 
Svo pamphlet, price 25 cents. 

1238. GAME LAWS FOR GAME KEEPERS. H. Neville. 

ART OF SHOOTING GAME SHOOTING WILDFOWLING 

BRITISH SHOOTING. 

1251. THE ART OF WING SHOOTING. Charles Lancaster. 
" An illustrated treatise, with extracts from the best 
authorities." This is an attempt to teach by giving 
pictorial representations, from instantaneous and other 
photographs, of actual practice by experts. There is 
very little theory, the explanations of the sketches 
made by James Temple are succinct, sometimes meagre, 
and the author too often advances the opinions of 
diverse authorities when his own views would be more 
intelligible and instructive. It is the fullest work 
on the subject. The author, 151, New Bond Street, 
London, 1889, 1891, 1893, etc. Demy Svo, 212 pp., 
51 full-page illustrations and numerous cuts in text, 
7s. Qd. net. 

1252. FIELD COVER AND TRAP SHOOTING. Adam H. 
Bogardus. Contains hints for skilled marksmen, 
instructions for young sportsmen, and a chapter on 
trap and pigeon shooting. The book was edited by 



110 Modern English Books. 

C. H. Foster. It contains a lifelike portrait of the 
author engraved by Perine. J. B. Ford & Co., New 
York, 1874. 8vo, 343 pp. 

1253. SHOOTING SIMPLIFIED. J. D. Dougall. A concise 
treatise of the Art of Shooting. One of the best 
appreciated books on this subject. A. Hall, Glasgow. 
1857. 8vo. New edition, rewritten and enlarged, with 
a special chapter on breechloaders. London, 1865. 
Svo. 

1254. DEAD SHOT. " Marksman." A book of instructions 
in the art of shooting, and manual to the sport 
generally. London, - - 1889. Svo, illustrated. 

1255.- PLAIN DIRECTIONS FOR ACQUIRING THE ART OF 
SHOOTING ON THE WING. Industrial Publishing Co., 
New York, 1873. 75 cents. 

1256. WING AND GLASS BALL SHOOTING. H. C. Bliss. 
Shooting with the rifle ; instructions for beginners in 
snap-shooting, and exposure of some of the popular 
fallacies in regard to it. New York, 1884 (?). Svo, 
50 cents. 

1257. SHOOTING ON THE WING. Plain directions for 
acquiring the art of shooting on the wing ; with useful 
hints concerning all that relates to guns and shooting, 
and particularly in regard to the art of loading so as 
to kill. To which have been added several valuable 
and hitherto secret recipes of great importance to the 
sportsman. By "An Old Gamekeeper." This is a 
popular little manual of instruction, which treats of 
the gun, how to load, clean, carry and handle it ; how 
to learn to shoot ; and gives besides many useful hints 
and recipes, which contribute to one's success and 
comfort afield. New York. Svo, 75 cents. 

1 258. ON THE WING. A book for sportsmen. /. Bumstead. 
Happy, New York, 1869. $1 50c. 



Current English Sporting Books. Ill 

1259. THE GUN, and How to Use it to kill every wing shot. 
Gwynne Price. A pamphlet on the art of shooting, 
more particularly trap shooting. New York, 1876 (?). 
Svo, pamphlet, picture cover. 

1260. A SHORT ACCOUNT OF INANIMATE BIRD SHOOTING, 
and Hints on the Formation and Management of 
Clubs. F. 0. Borer and W. Keep. Reprinted from 
the Shooting Times, 1894. Svo pamphlet. 

1261. RULES OP PIGEON SHOOTING. These are included 
in most shooting books, and the Hurlingham and Gun 
Club Rules published under the one cover, price Qd., 
by H. Cox. Various editions, 32mo. 

1262. MANUAL OF BRITISH RURAL SPORTS. " Stonehenge " 
(i.e. J. H. Walsh). A cyclopaedia of field sports, etc. 
Kentledge, London, 1856, 1859, 1867, 1871, 1875, 
1878, etc. Svo, pp. xvi, 720. 

1263. HINTS ON SHOOTING, FISHING, etc. "Christopher 
Idle" Longman, 1855. 12mo, 5s. 

1264. GAMEKEEPERS' DIRECTORY. T. B. Johnson. A book 
of hints on destroying vermin, etc., for gamekeepers. 
Paper, 1S51, 12mo, 5s. An edition also published 
by Sherwood. See No. 470. 

1265. TREATISE ON THE GUN AND DOG. R. B. Fellows. 
Groombridge, 1857. 12mo, 2s. 6d. 

1266. DOG AND GUN. J. J. Hooper. Judd, New York. 
60 cents ; 30 cents. 

1267. KNAPSACK MANUAL FOR SPORTSMEN. Edward Ward. 
Bradbury & Evans, London, 1866, 1872. 8vo. 

1268. SHOOTING AND TROUT FISHING. W. Barry. Tinsleys, 
1871. Svo, 7s. 6d. 

1269. SHOOTING ADVENTURES. Canine lore and Sea- 
fishing trips. Chapman & Hall, 1878. Post Svo, 
2 vols., 21s. 



112 Modem English Books. 

1270. SPORTING SKETCHES. G. F. Mason. Kent, 1879. 
Folio, 10s. Qd. 

1271. THE WILDFOWLER : a treatise on Ancient and 
Modern Wildfowling. Henry Colman Folkard. The 
best treatise on the subject, whether for historical or 
practical purposes. Longmans, London, 1859. 8vo. 
Third edition, 1875. 

1272. HINTS ON SHORE SHOOTING; with a chapter on 
Skinning and Preserving Birds. J. G. Harting. 
London, 1871. 8vo. 

1273. SHOOTING AND FISHING TRIPS. Lewis Clement. 
Second Series. Sketches contributed by " Wildfowler " 
to Bell's Life, and by " Snapshot " to the Country. 
London, 1876, 1877. 4 vols. 8vo. 

1274. PUBLIC SHOOTING QUARTERS. "Wildfowler" (i.e. 
Lewis Clement). This is a descriptive gazetteer of 
localities where wildfowl and other shooting can be 
obtained. Field Office, 1881. 8vo, pp. iv, 193. 

1275. MODERN WILDFOWLING. By "Wildfowler" (i.e. 
Lewis Clement). A guide to the sport a vade mecum 
for the wildfowler. H. Cox. Demy 8vo, plates and 
woodcuts, 10s. 6d. 

1276. THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS, their Construction, 
Management, and History. Sir R. Payne Gallwey. 
J. van Voorst, London, 1886. 4to, pp. x, 214. 

1277. THE FOWLER IN IRELAND; or, Notes on the Habits 
and Haunts of Wildfowl and Seafowl, including in- 
structions in the art of shooting and capturing them. 
Sir ft. Payne Gallwey. With illustrations. Van 
Voorst, London, 1882. 8vo, pp. xiii, 503. 

1278. SPORTING SKETCHES WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Francis 
Francis and A. W. Cooper. A series of twelve sketches, 
of which five relate to shooting, the others to fishing. 
The sketches are portraits of sporting men. H. Cox. 
Demy 4to, 12 illustrations, 24 vignettes, 10s. Gd. 



Current English Sporting Books. 113 

1279. NEW BOOK OF SPORTS. Essay reprinted from the 
Saturday Review. Bentley, 1885. Crown 8vo, 6s. 

1280. IN THE GUN ROOM. H. Knight Horsfield. Shooting 
sketches, stories reprinted from sporting periodicals, 
interspersed with original verse. Eden, Remington 
& Co., 1892. Svo, 245 pp., 2s. Qd. 

1281. ROUGH SHOOTING. T. E. Kebbel. Sonnenschein 
& Co., 1889. Svo, 90 pp., illustrations. 

1282. SPORT AND NATURE. T. E. Kebbel. Contains " My 
First Grouse " and other memories. Sonnenschein 
& Co., 1893. 8vo, 94 pp., illustrations. 

1283. SHOOTING AND SALMON FISHING; Hints and Recol- 
lections. Augustus G-rimble. A book of reminiscences, 
of no great interest, but readable. The drawings are 
far from being good. Chapman, Hall & Co., London, 
1892. 4to, pp. xi, 259, photogravures. 

1284. TOUR AND SPORT IN SUTHERLANDSHIRE. Charles St. 
John. John Murray, 1849. 2 vols., post 8vo, 18s. 

1285. WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS. Charles St. John. 
John Murray, 1846. Post Svo, 6s.; 1860, 12mo, 
3s. Qd. 

1286. WILD SPORTS IN THE HIGHLANDS. W. H. Maxwell. 
Baily, 1843. 2 vols. 8vo, 24s.; Routledge, 12rno, Is. 6d. 

1287. STRAY SHOTS. J. Colquhoun. Published with 
" Salmon Casts." Edinburgh, 1858. Svo. And later 
as " Sporting Days," 1866. Svo. 

1288. WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. W. H. Maxwell. 
Routledge, 1849, 2 vols. Svo, 21s.; 12mo, 3s. Qd ; 
1860, Is. Qd. 

1289. SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF SCOTLAND. Roht. S. Fittis. 
A short history with illustrations. A. Gardner, 
Paisley, 1891. Svo, 212 pp. 

8 



114 Modern English Books. 

1290. SCOTTISH FIELD SPORTS. J. D. Douyall. "A volume 
of mingled gossip and instruction," and a very well 
written book. A. Hall, Glasgow, 1861. Foolscap 
8vo, 3s. Qd. 

1291. HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND WITH ROD 
AND GUN. T. Speedy. Blackwoods, 1884-6. 8vo, 15s. ; 
new edition, 15*. 

1292. OUTDOOR SPORTS IN SCOTLAND. " Ellangowan " (i.e. 
W. H. Allen}. New edition, 1890. Post 8vo, 3s. 6d. 

1293. TWENTY-SIX YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF SCOTCH GROUSE 
MOORS. W. A. Adams. A book of interesting ex- 
periences from 1863 to 1888, containing much useful 
information and some clever illustrations by Charles 
Whymper and Douglas Adams. Cox, 18 . Crown 
8vo, coloured wrapper, Is. 

1294. MOORS. Return of Game registered each season on 
Grouse Moors. A guide for renters of shooting. Issued 
from Land and Water Office, 58, Pall Mall, London, 
1892, etc. 

1 295. How I BECAME A SPORTSMAN \ being early reminis- 
cences of a veteran. " Avon." With illustrations. 
Chapman & HaD, 1882. 8vo, pp. xii, 208. 

1296. SPORT : Fox Hunting, Covert Shooting, Deer 
Stalking, etc. W. Bromley Davenport. Edited by 
A. B. Davenport, and illustrated by H. H. Crealocke. 
Chapman & Hall, 1885. 4to, large paper, 215 pp.; 
also 8vo. 

1297. ESSAY ON SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY. J. G. 
Hartiny. Contains chapters on Shooting, Lark mirrors, 
Seals, Wild Swans : altogether thirty-eight essays, with 
practical hints on Bird-preserving, for the use of 
travellers and collectors. H. Cox, 18 . Svo, 463 pp., 
32 illustrations, 10*. Qd. 

1298. GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING SKETCHES. Coloured 
plates by Millais. Sotheran, 1892. 4to, 105s. 



Selected English Books on Foreign Sport. 115 

1299. THE PARTRIDGE. A book of the Fur and Feather 
series, which will provide handbooks to the principal 
game birds from the zoological, sporting, and gastro- 
nomical points of view. Lord Walsingham is responsible 
for that portion of this volume which treats of shooting. 
Longmans, London, 1893. 8vo. 



SELECTED ENGLISH BOOKS ON FOKEIGN 

SPOET. 

FOREIGN SPORT GENERALLY IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, 
AMERICA AND AUSTRALASIA. 

1301. SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL AND 
EXPLORATION. W. B. Lord and T. Baines. A practical 
handbook for the explorer and hunter, and the very 
best book of its kind. H. Cox, new edition, 18 . 
8vo, 704 pp., xxiii. ch., 400 woodcuts, etc., 15s. 

1302. TEN YEARS' WILD SPORT IN FOREIGN LANDS. H. W. 
Seton-Karr. Chapman. 6s. 

1303. SPORT AND ANECDOTE. C. T. S. B. Reynardson. 
Scribner & Br. New York, 1887. $4 50 c. 

1304. SPORT WITH GUN, etc. A. M. Mayer. Century Co., 
New York, 1885. New edition. $5. 

1305. SPORTING ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS. J. D'Eives. 
Routledge, 1857. 8vo, 5s. ; 1862, 2s. 

1306. LEAVES FROM A SPORTSMAN'S DIARY. Parker Gill- 
more. Sports, adventure, reminiscences. W. H. Allen. 
8vo, pp. vii, 341, 6s. 

1307. ADVENTURES AFLOAT AND ASHORE. Parker Gittmore. 
1873. 8vo, 2 vols 



116 Modem English Books. 

1308. ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS. Parker Gillmore. 
Has illustrations by S. P. Hall. Marcus Ward, 
Belfast and London, 1879. 8vo. 

1309. ALL ROUND THE WORLD. Parker Gill/more. A 
story of travel, with illustrations by S. P. Hall. Marcus 
Ward, London, 1871. 8vo. 

1310. ACCESSIBLE FIELD SPORTS. Parker Gillmore. Some 
sporting experiences in North America. London, 
1869. 8vo. 

1311. PRAIRIE AND FOREST. Parker Gillmore. W. H. 
Allen. New edition, illustrated. 1874. Or. 8vo, 
pp. x, 383, 3s. Qd. 

1312. GUN, ROD AND SADDLE. Parker Gillmore. Some 
records of personal experiences. W. H. Allen, 1869, 
1893. Or. 8vo, pp. viii, 341. 6s. 

1314. ENCOUNTERS WITH WILD BEASTS. Parker Gillmore. 
W. H. Allen, 1881. Or. Svo, pp. 305, illustrated, 
3s. Qd. 

1315. HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE WORLD. Victor Meunier, 

with 32 full-page illustrations. Sampson Low, . 

Small 8vo, cloth, 5s. ; new edition, 2s. 6d. 

1316. WILD ADVENTURES IN WILD PLACES. W. Gordon 
Stables. A boys' book. Cassell & Co., 1881. 8vo, 
176 pp., illustrations. 

1317. WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. Sir S. W. Baker. 
An excellent treatise on large game shooting. Mac- 
millan, 1830. Svo, 2 vols. ; 1891, Svo, 1 vol. 

1317a. SHORT STALKS. E. N. Buxton. E. Stanford, 1892, 
n.e. 1893. Svo, pp. xiii, 405, illustrated. 



EUROPE. 

1318. WOLF HUNTING AND WILD SPORT IN LOWER 
BRITTANY. H. H. Crealocke. Illustrated, 1875. Svo. 



Asia. 117 

1319. SPORTING RAMBLES IN GERMANY, FRANCE, etc. Hon. 
F. St. John. Longman, 1853. Post Svo, 9s. Qd. 

1320. CHAMOIS HUNTING IN BAVARIA. C. Boner. An 
interesting account of a little-known sport. Coloured 
illustrations. 1860, Svo, 10s. ; 1865, 8vo, 5s. 

1321. NOTES ON SPORT AND ORNITHOLOGY. Prince Rudolph 
of Austria. Translated by G. Danf or d. Gurney& Jack- 
son, 1889. 8vo, illustrated, 18s. 



ASIA. 

1322. SKETCHES OF FIELD SPORTS AS FOLLOWED BY THE 
NATIVES OF INDIA, with Observations on the Animals, 
etc. Daniel Johnson. The second edition contains 
"Boar Hunting." London (Torrington), 1822. Svo. 
New edition, 1827. 

1323. RIFLE AND HOUND IN CEYLON. Sir Samuel White 
Baker. A practical treatise, but not now of much 
use as a guide to the shooting obtainable in the 
Island. 1854, 1857, 1874. 8vo, 2s. 

1324. EIGHT YEARS' WANDERINGS IN CEYLON. Sir S. W. 
Baker. London, 1855, 1874. 8vo. 

1325. SHOOTING SCENES IN THE HIMALAYA. F. Markham. 
Bentley, 1856. Royal 8vo, 21s. ; 1860, 10s. Qd. 

1326. RIFLE IN CASHMERE. Arthur Brinckman. A 
narrative of shooting expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, 
Punjaub ; with advice on travelling, shooting, etc., 
with notes on Army Reform and Indian Politics. 1862, 
cr. 8vo, 2 illustrations. New edition, 1865. 



118 Modern English Books. 

1327. SPEAR AND RIFLE. H. A. Leveson. Recollections 
of Sport in India. 1860. 8vo. 

1328. SPORT IN MANY LANDS. A memoir of Major H. A. 
Leveson (" Old Shikari"), by H. F., with illustrations. 
Chapman & Hall (1876), 1879. Two vols. 8vo. 

1329. HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE OLD WORLD. H. A. 
Leveson, London, 1860, 1865. 8vo. 

1330. CAMP LIFE AND ITS ACQUIREMENT, for soldiers, 
travellers, and sportsmen. By H. A. L(eves<m), the 
" Old Shikaree." 1872. 8vo. 

1331. WRINKLES : or Hints to Sportsmen and Travellers. 
H.A.L. 1874. Svo. 

1332. THE HIGHLANDS OF TIBET. Large Game Shooting 
in Thibet and the North-west. A. A. Kinloch. 
Illustrated with photographs of trophies, etc. London, 
1869, 1876. 4to, Series 1 and 2. A similar book, 
illustrated with photogravures, published by Thacker, 
Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1885. 4to, pp. vi, 237. 

1333. FROM PALL MALL TO PUNJAUB, or With the Prince 
in India. /. Drew Gay. London, 1876. Svo. 



1335. SPORT IN BRITISH BURMAH, ASSAM, etc. Lieut.-Col. 
Pollock. Chapman, 1879. 8vo, 2 vols. 

1336. THIRTEEN YEARS AMONG THE WILD BEASTS OF 
INDIA ; their Haunts and Habits, from Personal 
Observation. With an account of the Modes of 
Capturing and Taming Wild Elephants. G. P. Sander- 
son. The author was the officer in charge of the 
Government elephant keddahs, Dacca, and his book is 
the best work ever written on elephant hunting, the 
weapons, etc., necessary, and is indispensable to hunters 
of large game, whether in India or elsewhere. There 



Asia. 119 

is a coloured frontispiece, and twenty other fine plates 
of spirited hunting scenes. W. H. Allen, 1879 (?) 
Four editions, fcap. 4to, maps, plates, 12s. 

1337. EVERY TRUE SPORTSMAN'S FRIEND. A compilation 
made from the newspapers by the " Old Shikaree." 
P. M. Jones, Serainpore, 1880. 8vo, 19 pp. 

1338. REMINISCENCES OF SPORT IN INDIA. E. F. Burton. 

1885. 8vo, illustrated, 18s. 

1339. TENT LIFE IN TIGER LAND. Hon. J. Inglis. This 
is included in " Sport and Work " (q.v.), but also pub- 
lished separately by Sampson Low & Co. Royal 8vo, 
8s 

1340. SPORT AND WORK ON THE NEPAUL FRONTIER. Hon. 
Jas. Inglis ("Maori"}. Sporting reminiscences of a 
pioneer planter in an Indian Frontier district, with 
22 illustrations in chromolithography. Sampson Low 
& Co., 1878, pp. xv, 366 : 1888, 8vo, 21s. ; Macmillan, 
1880, pp. xiv, 466. 8vo. 

1341. SPORT IN THE FAR EAST. C. Cradock. A guide 
illustrated with maps, etc. Griffith, 1889. 8vo, 6s. 

1342. SPORTSMAN'S VADE MECUM FOR THE HIMALAYAS. 
K. C. A. J. A book of shooting notes, hints on camp 
life, etc., and stories. Contains : Guns and Rifles, 
Ammunition, Useful Articles, Dress, Camp Equip- 
ments, Stores, Medicines, Writing Materials, Maps, 
etc. ; Summary of Kit, etc. ; Removing and Drying 
Skins, General Notes. SPORTING YARNS : Black 
Buck, Oorial, Chinkarah, Bustard, Coolun, Markhor 
Ibex, Gooral, Barasingh, Thar, Musk Deer, Bears. 
H. Cox, 1891. Demy 8vo, 2s. 

1343. RECORDS OF SPORT IN SOUTHERN INDIA. Douglas 
Hamilton. From journals written between 1844 and 
1870, with notes on Singapore, Java, and Labuan. 
Illustrated from sketches by the author, and portrait. 
R. H. Porter, 1892. 4to, pp. xlviii, 284, 30s. net. 



120 Modern English Books. 

1344. GOLD, COFFEE, AND SPORT IN MYSORE, R. H. Elliott. 
Every-day life and red-letter days in the career of 
a planter, by the author of " Experiences of a 
Planter." A. Constable & Co., London, 1893. Crown 
8vo, map. 

1345. WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. J. L. Kipling. 
Contains some interesting natural history notes, 
exciting adventures and sporting reminiscences of 
practical value. Must not be confounded with " The 
Jungle Book," by Rudyard Kipling, a volume of 
fantastic stories. Macmillan, 1891. 8vo, pp. xii, 401. 

1346. SEONEE ; Camp Life on the Satpura Range, a 
tale of Indian adventure. Robert Armitage Sterndale. 
Illustrated by the author, with map, etc. Sampson 
Low & Co. 8vo, 21s. 



AFRICA. 

1347 SPORTING SCENES AMONG THE KAFFIRS. A. W. 
Drayson. Illustrations by Harrison Weir. This book 
was translated into Russian in 1867. The author 
wrote several tales of South African life, the first 
being " Hans Sterk." Routledge, 1858, 1862. 

1348. ALBERT NYANZA. Sir S. W. Baker. An account 
of the famous explorer's discoveries in Africa. A 
French translation, " Haut Nil," by Decouvert, was 
published in 1868 and 1880; and a German edition 
has appeared. London, 1866. 8vo, 2 vols. 

1349. ISMAILA. Sir S. W. Baker. Contains information 
respecting sport in Upper Egypt. London, 1874. 8vo. 

1350. WILD TRIBES OF THE SOUDAN. Sir S. W. Baker. 
Contains much information respecting game in northern 
Central Africa. 1884. 8vo. 



Africa. 121 

1351. THROUGH GASA LAND. Parker Gillmore. Harrison, 
1890. 8vo, pp. xii, 349. 

1352. THE GREAT THIRST LAND (i.e. Kalahari Desert). 
Parker Gillmore. Sampson Low, 1878. Svo. 

1353. UNKNOWN HORN OF AFRICA. F. L. James. An 
account of an exploration from Berbera to the Leopard 
river. With additions by G. J. Thrupp. Illustra- 
tions by Eose Hake, and of the fauna by K. Keuleman. 
The author also wrote of the "Wild Tribes of the 
Soudan" and on the routes from Wady Haifa to 
Berber. G. Philip & Son, London, 1888. 4to, pp. 344, 
illustrations. 

1354. SPORTSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA. J. A. Nicolls. 
Brit. & Col. Pub. Co., 1892. Svo, 10*. net. 

1 355. FIVE MONTHS' SPORT IN SOMALILAND. Lord Wolverton. 
An account of a trip of a hundred miles across a desert 
into a poor game country, and so unhealthy that 2000 
three-grain quinine pills proved an inadequate supply. 
The book is not carefully written, but is fairly illus- 
trated from photographs by Col. Paget, and is furnished 
with a good map. Chapman & Hall, 1894. Svo, 
108pp. 

1356. HUNTER'S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA. F. C. /Selous. 
A narrative of nine years amongst the big game in 
the far interior of South Africa. Bentley & Son, 
London, 1881. Svo, pp. xvii, 455, illustrations by 
E. Whymper. 2nd ed., 1890. 

1357. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA. F. C. 
Selous. The best account of game hunting. R. Ward 
& Co., London, 1893. Svo, pp. xvii, 503, photographic 
illustrations. 

1358. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURES IN THE CONGO FREE STATE, 
and its big game shooting. By " Boula N'Zau " (i.e. 
" Elephant Smasher "). H. Bailey. A four years' 



122 Modern English Books. 

record of sport, etc. Chapman, London, 1894. 8vo, 
320 pp., illustrations from Author's sketches, map, 14s. 

1359. CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. T. J. Lucas. 
Chapman, 1878. Demy 8vo, 258 pp., with plates. 

1360. Moss FROM A ROLLING STONE. C. A. Payton 
(" Sarcelle "). Shooting in Morocco, etc. Cox, 1879. 
Svo, illustrated. 



AMERICA. 

1361. AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. E. J. Lewis. Lippincott, 
Philadelphia, 1855. Svo, illustrated. 

1362. SPORTING ADVENTURES IN THE NEW WORLD. C. 
Hardy. Hurst & Blackett, 1855. 2 vols., post Svo, 21s. 

1363. WILD SPORTS IN THE FAR WEST. F. Gerstcecker. 
(Fictitious.) Routledge, 1856. 12mo, Is. Qd. ; illus- 
trated edition, 3s. Qd. 

1364. SHOOTING AND FISHING IN NORTH AMERICA. B. H. 
Revoil. Tinsleys, 1865. 2 vols., Svo, 21s. 

1365. HUNTER'S AND TRAPPER'S G-UIDE. S. J. Hunter. 

An illustrated handbook. Hunter, New York, 1869. 

$1 ; $1.50. 
1366. SHOOTING, BOATING, FISHING. T. R. Warren. Scrib- 

ner, New York, 1871. $1. 
1367. HUNTER AND TRAPPER. H. Thrasher. Judd, New 

York, n.d., $1. 
1368. LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS. F. M. Reed. A trapper's 

guide and manual. (?) New York, 1874. 20 c. 
1369. GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. /. Mast. Meth. Epis., New 

York, 1876. $1.25. 
1370. ART OF HUNTING, TRAPPING, FISHING, etc., made 

easy. Hurst. 25 cents. 



America. 123 



1371. HUNTER'S GUIDE AND TRAPPER'S COMPANION. //. E. 
Hunter. Hunter, New York, 1876. 50 cents ; 25 cents. 

1372. SPORT AND TRAVEL, Men and Manners in two 
Americas. Sir R. L. Price. Longmans, 1876-77. 
8vo, 18s. ; new edition, 18s. 

1373. FIFTY YEARS WITH THE GUN AND ROD. D. W. Cross. 
Cleveland, Ohio. IGnio, 7s. Qd. 

1374. SPORTSMAN'S GAZETTEER AND GENERAL GUIDE. The 
game, animals, birds, and fishes of North America ; 
together with a directory to the principal game resorts 
of the country. Illustrated with maps. C. Hallock. 
Revised and enlarged edition. Orange Judd Co., New 
York, 1877-83. Svo, 2 parts, maps. 

1375. CAMP LIFE IN FLORIDA. C. Hallock. A handbook 
for sportsmen and settlers. New York, 1876. 12 mo. 

1376. OUR NEW ALASKA. C. Hallock. The Seward 
purchase vindicated. Forest and Stream Co., New 
York, 1886. 80 pp., 209 illustrations. 

1377. HUNTER'S HANDBOOK. B. Straton. Lee & S. N. G., 
1885. 50 cents. 

1378. RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL. Th. Roose- 
velt. Century Co., New York, 1888. $5. 

1379. THE STILL-HUNTER. A Practical Treatise on Deer- 
Stalking. By Theo. S. Van Dyke. "The Still- 
Hunter " is a work devoted entirely to the subject on 
which it professes to give instruction. The author is 
a man familiar with the habits of deer, and his treatise 
is the best on the subject. New York, 1888. Svo, 
390 pp., $2. 

1380. SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE. B. A. Watson. The lake 
lands of Canada. With illustrations by W. C. and H. 
Beard. First appeared at Philadelphia. Second edition, 
1888. J. Bumpus, London, 1889. Svo, pp. xii, 390. 



124 Modern English Books. 

1381. SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE. W. C. Harris. A sporting 
gazetteer to the hunting and fishing grounds of the 
United States and Canada. Angler's Publishing Co., 
New York, 1889. $1. 

1382. CRUISINGS IN THE CASCADES. G. 0. Shields. A 
narrative of travel, exploration, hunting, amateur 
photography, and fishing, with special chapters on 
hunting the grizzly bear, the buffalo, elk, antelope, etc., 
also on trouting in the Rocky Mountains, life among 
the Cow Boys, etc. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 
1889. Svo, 339 pp., illustrated. English edition, Low. 
10s. Gd. 

1383. RUSTLINGS IN THE ROCKIES. G. 0. Shields. A 
narrative of hunting and fishing experiences. Belford, 
Clarke & Co., Chicago, 1883. 8vo, pp. xv, 306. 

1384. BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA. G. 0. Shields. 
" Habitat, haunts, habits and characteristics of the 
big game of the North American continent : how, 
where, and when to hunt it." Rand, McNally & Co., 
Chicago, 1890. Svo, 581 pp., illustrated. 

1385. HINTS AND POINTS FOR SPORTSMEN. "Seneca." This 
compilation comprises six hundred and odd hints, helps, 
kinks, wrinkles, points and suggestions for the shooter, 
etc., about threescore hints on firearms and their use 
in the field. Forest and Stream Co., New York, 1890. 
Svo, 610 pp., $1.50. 

1386. SPORT; or Fishing and Shooting. Edited by A. G. 
Gould. Chiefly sought for its illustrations of mallard, 
antelope, deer, turkey, moose, and wapiti shooting, 
after water colours by Denton, Remington, Zogbaum, 
Frost, and Sandham. Bradlee Whidden, Boston, 
Mass., 1890-93. Five sections, 18 x 24, each three 
plates. $10 each part, complete half Roxburgh, $55. 

1387. SHOOTING ON UPLAND, MARSH, AND STREAM. Edited 
by W. E. Leffingwell ("Horace"). Contains articles 



America. 125 



by prominent sportsmen on hunting the upland birds 
of America ; their nights, habits, resorts, etc. ; the 
scientific methods of shooting ducks, prairie chickens', 
grouse, wild turkeys, geese, pigeons, snipe, quail, 
woodcock, and plovers. The book is, in effect, a 
collection of monographs on North American game 
birds, supplemented by accounts of the pursuit of 
them ; and this, even, is humanely considered. 
Sampson Low, 1890. Svo, 473 pp., illustrated, 18s. 
Another edition, Svo, 10s. Qd. 

1387. WILDFOWL SHOOTING. W. B. Leffingwdl. Con- 
taining scientific and practical descriptions of wild- 
fowl ; their resorts, habits, flights, and the most 
successful method of hunting them ; of guns for wild- 
fowl shooting ; how to load, aim, and to use them ; 
decoys, blinds, boats, etc. New York, 1890, 1892. 
Svo, illustrated, 373 pp., $2.50. 

1389. AMERICAN BIG GAME HUNTING. Theo. Roosevelt 
and Geo. B. Grinnell. Contains " A Buffalo Story " 
(G. S. Anderson), "The White Goat and his Country" 
(0. Wister), "A Day with the Elk" (W. Chanler), 
"Old Times in the Black Hills" (R. D. Williams), 
" Big Game in the Rockies " (A. Rogers), " Coursing 
the Prongbuck" (T. Roosevelt), "After Wapiti in 
Wyoming" (F. C. Crocker), "In Buffalo Days" (G. B. 
Grinnell), " Nights with the Grizzlies " (W. D. Pickett), 
" The Yellowstone Park as a Game Preserve " (A. 
Hague), " A Mountain Fraud " (Dean Sage), " Black- 
tails in the Bad Lands" (B. Rumsey), "Photographing 
Big Game" (W. B. Devereux), "Literature of American 
Big Game Hunting," " Our Forest Reservations," etc. 
Forest and Stream Co., New York, 1893. Svo, 16 full- 
page plates, 345 pp., $2.50. 

1390. GOLD IN CARIBOO. C. P. Wolley. A story of ad- 
ventures in British Columbia. Blackie & Son, 1894. 
Svo, 288 pp. " Sportsman's Eden," another book by 
the same author, also treats of British Columbia ; the 



126 Modern English Books, 

" Trottings of a Tenderfoot to Columbian fiords and 
Spitsbergen " was published by Bentley in 1884, 8vo, 
350 pp. ; and the author's other book, " Savage 
Svanetia" also. First edition, 1883. Two vols. 8vo. 

1391. THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. By Hon. Theodore 
Roosevelt. This work records the experiences of the 
author with all kinds of game found in the United 
States, and gives as well many interesting and exciting 
incidents of cowboy life on the plains. Forest and 
Stream Pub. Co., New York. 8vo, $3.50. 

1392. RIFLE, ROD AND GUN IN CALIFORNIA. Flirtation 
Camp ; or, The Rifle, Rod and Gun in California. A 
Sporting Romance. By Theodore 8. Van Dyke. Cloth, 
300 pp., $1.50. 

1393. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN. Sketches of 

Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. By Theodore 

Roosevelt. Illustrated with 26 full-page illustrations. 
Cloth, 350 pp. Price $3.00. 

1394. WOODCRAFT. By Nessmuk. A book written for 
the instruction and guidance of those who go for 
pleasure to the woods. Its author, having had great 
experience in camp life, has put the wisdom so acquired 
into intelligible English. Forest and Stream Co., 
New York, 1889. 8vo, cloth, 160 pp., illustrated, $1. 

1395. CAMPING AND CRUISING IN FLORIDA. Jos. A. Hen- 
shall. A narrative of yachting, fishing and hunting 
adventure in the Southern peninsula. The volume 
embraces the narrative of two distinct cruises, the one 
undertaken in the Blue Wing and the other in the 
Rambler, in the course of which the author saw 
enough to write a vast deal of information on the 
.soil, climate and natural productions of Florida, and 
on its fish, game, and people. Forest and Stream Co., 
New York, 189-. Svo, 260 pp., 84 illustrations, list 
of fauna, maps, $1.50. 



America. 127 



1396. THE BOYS' BOOK OF OUTDOOR SPORTS. Edited by 
Maurice Thompson. Discusses shooting, fishing, archery, 
boats and boating, etc., etc. Forest and Stream Co., 
New York, 188-. 8vo, illustrated, 350 pp., $2.50. 

1397. AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING. J. M. Murphy. 
New York, 188-. $12.0. 

1397. AMERICAN WILDFOWL SHOOTING. J. W. Long. 
Contains also notes for a theory of the action of 
Choke-boring on a load of shot. Orange Judd & Co., 
New York, 1879. 8vo, 330 pp., woodcuts. 

1398. CHIPLOQUORGAN. Captain Dashwood. A treatise on 
moose hunting, etc., in Canada. Dublin, 1871. 8vo, 
293 pp., illustrated. 

1399. GAME OF THE NORTH-WEST. J. Hubbard. A paper 
on the hunting grounds of the Far West, prepared 
for the Natural History exhibit of Manitoba at the 
London Colonial Exhibition. Svo pamphlet. 

1399rt. THE WILD NORTH LAND. Sir W. F. Butler, the 
author of " The Great Lone Land." Both works 
relate rather rto travel and adventure than to 
sport. W. H. Allen, 1873. Svo, 18s.; crown 8vo, 
Is. Qd. 

13995. SPORTING SKETCHES IN SOUTH AMERICA. Admiral 
Kennedy. Porter. Post Svo, illustrated, 6s. 

1399c. WANDERINGS OF A NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA. A 
privately printed anonymous book, full of information 
respecting the large and small game of Central 
America. London, 187-. Svo. 

1399d WILD SPORTS ON THE FRONTIER. J. S. Campion. 
Some excellent reminiscences. Chapman, 1877. Svo 
16s.; 1878, new edition, 16s. 



128 Modern English Books. 



AUSTRALASIA. 

1399e. OUR AUSTRALIAN COUSINS. Hon. Jas. Inglis. 
Contains a fair account of sport in the bush. Mac- 
millan, 1880. 8vo, pp. xiv, 466. 

1399/*. OUR NEW ZEALAND COUSINS. Hon. J. Inglis. 
Gives particulars of some New Zealand sports. Samp- 
son Low, 1887. 8vo, pp. xii, 311. 

1399#. WANDERINGS IN A WILD COUNTRY. W. B. Powell. 
An account of three years' wanderings amongst the 
cannibals of New Britain, etc. Sampson Low, 1883. 
8vo, pp. vii, 283. 



FEENCH BOOKS. 
CURRENT WORKS ON SHOOTING. 

1401. DICTIONNAIRE DBS CHASSES. A. Pairault. A 
vocabulary of sporting terms ancient and modern. 
Has an introduction by M. de Cherville, and is 
dedicated to the Duchess d'Uzes. The work is done 
thoroughly, and the natural history notes are better 
than the explanations of some of the foreign sporting 
terms ; but the book is compiled for the enlightenment 
of those amongst whom it is counted a sin not to know 
the meaning of such words as " field-trials " and 
" mail-coach," and not for the use of experts. Contains 
430 pp., and is illustrated with 50 vignettes and culs- 
de-lampe. Pairault, Paris, 1885. 8vo, 15 francs. 

1402. LIVRE DE TOUTES LEs CHASSES. E. Parent. A 
compilation, and not a good one ; a cyclopaedia of field 
sports. Parent, Brussels ; Tanera, Paris, 1865. 8vo, 
2 vols. 

1403. CHASSE PRATIQUE. E. Bellecroix. An account of 
shooting societies, shooting grounds, game raising and 
watching, vermin destroying, etc. Didot, Paris, 1875 
and 1879. 18mo. 

1404. CHASSEUR AU CHIEN D'ARRET. Elzear Blaze. One 
of a number of sporting books by a French writer, 
born at Cavaillon about 1786. His other works 
are " Chasseur au Chien Courant," " Causeries de 
Gourmets et Chasseurs." Tresse & Stock, Paris. Tenth 
edition, 1887, 12mo. The first edition, Montardier, 
Paris, 1836, second, Barba, 1837, third, Barba, 1839, 

129 9 



130 French Books. 



all in 8vo ; other Paris editions in 1846, 1854, 1858, 
1862, 1868, 1872 and 1887. Belgian editions in 1836, 
1844, 1852. 

1405. CHASSE AU CHIEN D'ARRET. Dr. J. C. Chenu. A 
treatise on shooting over dogs by an author well known 
as a writer of the " Encyclopaedic Natural History " 
and of the " Ornithologie du Chasseur." Marcq, Paris, 
1851. Picard, 1865 ; pp. viii, 184, 89 plates, 19 
vignettes, in 12mo. Illustrated. 

1406. CHASSEURS EXCENTRIQUES. C. cVAmezeuil. A 
sporting souvenir. Dentu, Paris, 1875. In 18mo. 
3 francs. Not of sporting interest. 

1407. CHASSEUR COSMOPOLITE. Dentu, Paris. 2 francs. 

1408. LIVRE DU CHASSEUR. Charles Diguet. A popular 
manual for the sportsman. Fayard, Paris, n.d. (1881). 
Gr. 8vo, 464 pp. [This may be regarded as a fair 
specimen of a class of sporting book for which there 
appears to have been a large demand in France. It is 
a book written in the style of a penny-a-liner round 
about shooting and natural history rather than of it, 
has many literary allusions, and is well studded with 
Latin quotations and sporting slang. The illustrations 
are in some cases of very fair quality, in others appear 
to have been taken from a cheap natural history 
book. An advantage of the book as a class was 
that it could be divided into various volumes, " Gibier 
a Plume," " Gibier a Foil," etc., and separately 
published with a coloured lithograph on paper cover.] 

1409. MANUEL ILLUSTRJ& DU CHASSEUR. Robert Du Chene. 
A work by the editor of the " Almanach Manuel du 
Chasseur." A sportsman's calendar, illustrated by 
Emy. De la Rue, Paris, n.d. 

1410. MANUEL DBS CHASSEURS. Viscomte de Noe ("\Ckam"). 
Sixty-one caricatures. Martinet, Paris, n.d. Svo. 



Current Works on Shooting. 131 

1411. GUIDE DU CHASSEUR. F. Cassassoles. A manual 
for sportsmen, with instructions for the use of setters, 
pointers, etc. A theoretical, practical and judicial 
treatise. Paris, n.d. In 24mo, illustrations. Another 
edition, Garnier freres, Paris, 1864. 

1412. GUIDE-GARNET DU CHASSEUR. N. Libouille. A 
small treatise on arms by a Belgian gunmaker, who 
was for some time editor of Le Franc Tireur. Dentu, 
Paris, 1879. 12mo. 

1413. GUIDE DU CHASSEUR. C. Diguet. A treatise on 
field sports. Paris, 1887. 12mo. 

1414. MANUEL DU CHASSEUR. Leonce de Curd. A book 
for young sportsmen, followed with the laws relating 
to game preserving in France. Metz, 1857, in Svo, 
with plate. Dentu, Paris, 1858, 1861, and 1863. 

1415. CONSEILS AUX CHASSEURS. II. Robinson. A manual 
for sportsmen, treating of shooting, firearms, ammu- 
nition, and shooting requisites. Goin, Paris, 1860, 
Svo, pp. 333, plates. Parent, Bruxelles, 1860, 1865. 
Another edition, Tanera, Paris, 1865. 3 fr. 50 c. 

1416. MANUEL DU JEUKE CHASSEUR. Tonne Chatin de 
Mizelles. Instructions for young sportsmen ; How to 
become a dead shot ; Game Register. Ceas et fils, 
Valence, 1869, 18mo. Other editions, Rothschild, 
Paris, n.d., 12mo; and later, with 37 vignettes, 70 pp., 
under new titles, by Melchior Chatin. 1 franc. 

1417. CHASSES DANS L'HIMALAYA. C. Jules Basile Gerard. 
An apocryphal work, similar to " Le Mangeur 
d'Hommes" by same author. Paris, 1862, 1863, 1865. 

1418. TUEUR DE LIONS. C. J. B. Gerard. Lion hunting 
and other sports in Algeria ; highly coloured sketches 
of sporting adventures. Paris, 1854, with an illus- 
tration by Grenier. Other editions 1856, 1858, 1864, 
1868, 1875, 1878, etc. 



132 French Books. 



1419. CHASSE AU LION. 0. J. B. Gerard. Paris, 1852, 
12mo; 1885, 12mo, engraving by G. Dore; Paris, 
Levy, 1862, 1869, has portrait of M. Gerard, 1874. 
There are some editions in Svo with the Dore illustra- 
tion which are much sought. 

1420. AFRIQUE DU NOED. G. J. B. Gerard. A history 
of the French territory, with some sporting notes. 
Dentu, Paris, 1860. Other editions without date. 

1421. CHASSES D'AFEIQUE. C. J. B. Gerard. A made-up 
book, 12 illustrations by Grenier and Moraine, in 
black or colour. Paris, n.d. 

1422. MES DERNIERES CHASSES. Jules Gerard. This work 
is preceded by a notice of the famous lion killer by 
A. Dumas. Calmann-Levy, Paris, 1877. 12mo. 

1423. MES CHASSES AU LION. J. Chassaing. With a 
preface by Gamier. Dentu, Paris, 1865, in 18mo. 
Second edition, 1879. Spanish edition, Madrid, 1868. 

1424. TIGRES EN COCHIN CHINE. Duyatejf. Some par- 
ticulars of tigers and tiger hunting in Cochin China, 
contributed to or incorporated with the " Rendezvous 
de Chasse." Barbon, Limoges, n.d. 8vo. 

1425. CHASSES AUX INDES. Castillon. Paris. 4to, 8 illus- 
trations by V. Adam, two-coloured. 

1426. CHASSES EN AFRIQUE. Castillon. Courcier, Paris. 
4to, oblong, 12 illustrations. 

1426. TUEUR DE PANTHERES. H. Chevreuil, the panther 
killer. An article reproduced from the Debats of 
August 4th, 1860. Aubry, Paris, 1860. 

1427. MES CHASSES. Th. Anquetil. Includes an account 
of tiger hunting, etc. Of little interest to sportsmen, 
and without technical value. Dentu, Paris, 1866. 
18mo, 1 franc. 



Current Works on Shooting. 133 

1428. AVENTURES ET CHASSES DANS I/EXTREME ORIENT. 

Th. Anquetil. Sport and adventure in the Far East. 
Includes " Men and Beasts," " Elephant Hunting and 
Tiger Hunting," which were separately published. 
Charpentier, Paris, 1874-76. In ISmo. 

1429. CHASSE AUX BETES FEROCES. E.Campagne. Megard, 
Rouen, 1882. 12mo. 

1430. CHASSE AUX LIONS. A. Assolant. With illustra- 
tions by Jules Girardet and Bembled. Third edition, 
1892. Bardoin, Paris. 

1431. CHASSE 1 LA BECASSE. E. Jourdeuil. A new 
edition, limited to five hundred copies, and a few on 
hand-made and special papers. 

1432. EXPEDITION DE CHASSE AU NEPAUL. Philippe (Due 
d'Orleans). C. Levy, Paris, 1892. 4to, 241 pp. 

1433. ART D'ELEVER, DE MULTIPLIER, ET DE CHASSER LES 
CANARDS. F. Routillet. Paris, 1892. 18rno, 36 pp. 
Sketches. 

1434. IMPRESSIONS DE CHASSE. G. Azais. Sporting 
sketches and notes on natural history. Hachette, 
Paris, 1870 and 1872. 12mo. 

1435. CHASSE. B. Asher and Ad. Belot. Gives an 
account of a sporting tour in Spain, and of elephant 
hunting. Barbon, Limoges, n.d. 12rno. 

1436. CHASSEUR DE CHAMOIS and "Chasseur de FOurs." 
C. Buet. Barbon, Limoges, n.d. 12mo. 

1437. CHASSE AU MOUFLON. E. Bergerat. An account of 
sport in Corsica. Delagrave, Paris, 1891. 8vo, 383 pp., 
43 plates, 55 illustrations in text, title-page in red 
and black. 

1438. CHASSES AUX LOUPS. Baron Halna du Fretay. 
Priidhomine, St. Brieuc, 1891. 8vo, 141 pp., frontis- 
piece. 



134 French Books. 



1439. CHASSE DE LA CAILLE EN EGYPTE. M. Magaud 
d' Aubusson. Paris, 1891. 8vo, 4 plates. 

1440. CANAEDS D'EGYPTE. M. M. d'Aubusson. This and 
the preceding are from a series of re-issues of ornitho- 
logical papers from the " Revue des Sciences." Cerf 
et fils, Paris, 1891. Svo, 7 plates. 

1441. CHASSE 1 L'OPOSSUM. Oscar Wilde. Oudin et Cie, 
Paris, 1891. 18mo, 64 pp., and illustrations. 

1442. CHASSE AUX PETITS OISEAUX. E. Campagne. 
Megard, Rouen, 1882. 12mo. 

1443. CHASSES D'AUTOMNE. A. Grassed. Pairault, Paris, 
1886. In 16mo, 23 vignettes, 200 copies only. 

1444. LES CHASSES DU GLOBE. P. Gamier. A work of 
no great interest, by a voluminous writer ; it is only 
one of many books of the same kind written possibly 
with a view to popularise foreign sport and adventure. 
J. Martin, Paris, 1887. 

1445. CHASSE ET PECHE. Delphin Dastugue. Practical 
treatise. Renoux et Maulde, Paris, 1886. In 18mo, 
pp. viii, 332. 3 francs. 

1446. CHASSE ET PECHE. D. Dastugue. A book of hints 
for sportsmen. Durand, Paris, 1868. ISrno. 

1447. CHASSE 1 LA BECASSE. By a " Chasseur Rustique " 
(Varenne de Feuille}. A finely got tip book; 111 copies 
printed. Bourg (printed by Pen-in, Lyon), 1869, 8vo. 

1448. CHASSE 1 LA BCASSE. G. Duwarnet. " Pour chasser 
la Becasse." Goin, Paris, s.d. In ISrno. 

1449. CHASSE AUX BECASSINES. Leopold Elouis. An 
account of shooting in marshes and on the sea shore in 
Normandy. Paris, n.d. 12mo, vignettes and coloured 
woodcuts. 3 francs. 

1450. CHASSES DE MER ET DE GRKVES. C. Diyuet. Marpon, 
Paris, 1886. In 12mo, 3 francs. 



Current Works on Shooting. 135 

1451. CHASSE AU MARAIS. C. Diguet. Treatise on wild- 
fowling. Dentu, Paris, 1889. 18mo, 107 pp. 1 fr. 50 c. 

1452. TRAITE DE LA CHASSE DBS ALOUETTES. P. Gamier. 
Some particulars concerning the use of a revolving 
mirror to attract larks. 

1453. DE LA CHASSE 1 L'ALOUETTE AU MIROIR ET AU FUSIL. 
Neree-Quepat. Paris, Goin, n.d. 12mo. Two editions 
published. 

1454. GIBIER-PLUME ; GiBiER-PoiL. Marquis de Cherville. 
A book about sport. Another work of the kind is 
" Ornithologie du Chasseur." 

1455. SOUVENIRS DE CHASSES. Viscount Louis de Dax. 
Sporting recollections by a contributor to the Chasse 
Illustree, concluding with particulars of game shooting 
in France. A second edition, " Nouveaux Souvenirs," 
published by Dentu, Paiis, in 1860, is the more rare. 
Cartel, Paris, 1858. 12mo. 

1456. COMMENT L'ESPRIT VIENT AUX BETES. C. cVAmezeuil. 
What one sees when hunting. Not of great sporting 
interest or technical value. 

1457. SOIXANTE ANNEES DE CHASSE. J. A. Clamart. Prac- 
tical guide to sport and forestry. Afterwards appeared 
as an Illustrated Cyclopaedia for Sportsmen, when 20 
illustrations were added by A. Goin, who bought up 
the edition printed by Lelaurin at Mezieres, and 
published by Letellier at Charleville, 1866. Petit says 
the Letellier edition is much sought after, and valuable. 
The illustrated editions are of less interest. First 
edition, " Cinquante Annees," etc., Vouziers, 1854, 
166 pp., no illustrations. Third edition the same, but 
added to by Goin, with new cover and title printed by 
Jouaust. Subsequently reissued 1869. 

1458. LITTERATURE DE LA CHASSE. E. Ritter. A mono- 
graph on French sport in the Middle Ages, illustrated 



136 French Books. 



with 18 reproductions of old engravings. The text is 

in German, the citations in French. Neumann, 

Neudamm, 1886. In 8vo, 53 pp., 300 copies only 
printed, 6 f r. 

1459. HISTOIRE DE CHASSE. Benoit-Champy. A pamphlet, 
of which 100 copies only were printed. Pairault, 
Paris, 1886, 1 fr. 

1460. TECHNOLOGIE ARCHEOLOGIQUE. Dr. A. Peigne De 
la Court. This work comprises " Chasse a la Haie," 
" Arts et Metiers de Goquet/' " Chasse au Moyen- 
Age," etc. A work on the sporting methods of the 
Middle Ages and kindred subjects. The author wrote 
an etymological work, showing that the names Bruxelles 
and Louvain are derived from sporting terms. Peromie, 
1873. 8vo. 

1461. ESSAI HlSTORIQUE ET LfiGAL SUR LA CHASSE. MdT- 

chand. Le Jay, London and Paris, 1769. 12mo. 
Founded, it is said, on an earlier essay, " Calendrier, 
ou Essai Historique et Legal sur la Chasse," 1770. 

1462. TRAITE BU DROIT DE CHASSE. F. De Launay, 
author of "Nouveau Traite du Droit de Chasse." 
Paris, G. Quinet, 1681, 1685 (?). 

1463. LA CHASSE D'AUXERRES. Abbe Le Bceuf. Gives 
an account of the history of an old-established custom 
of hare hunting in Auxerre. Reproduced from the 
Mercure de France, 1725. Tochener, Paris. 12mo. 
(Vol. I. of " Collection of Dissertations.") 

1464. GUIDE PRATIQUE DU GARDE-CHASSE. Ernest Belle- 
croix. A manual for the gamekeeper, with notes on 
woodcraft based upon the treatise by A. De la Rue. 
Didot, Paris, 1886. 12mo, 3 fr. 

1465. GUIDE-MANUEL DU GARDE CHAMPETRE. MarcDeffaux. 
A text-book for the gamekeeper ; gives particulars of 
vermin traps and gamekeepers' duties, also methods of 
sporting and fishing. Passard, Paris, 1853. 12mo, 2 fr. 



Current Works on Shooting. 137 

1466. MANUEL DBS GARDES. Jean Henriquez. A work 
for the game preserver by the author of " Principes 
de Jurisprudence sur le Droit de Chasse " and " Code 
Penal . . . ou Precis Raisonne des Ordonnances," etc. 
Delalain, Paris, 1784. 12mo. 

1467. LA CHASSE, SON HISTOIRE ET SA LEGISLATION. 
Ernest Jullien. A. trustworthy, comprehensive book. 
Didier, Paris, 1868. 8vo, table, 6 fr. 

1468. DROIT DE CHASSE. Charles Boulen. A book on 
sporting rights and game laws, showing the property 
in game from the institution of the French monarchy 
to the present time. Paris, 1887. 8vo, 7 fr. 

1469. CODE FORESTIER. Dalloz. The laws of forestry, 
sporting and fishing, with annotations. Paris, 1884. 
4to, 3(Hr. 

1470. LA CHASSE. - Giraudeau. Paris, 1882. In 12mo 
and in 4to. 

1471. TRAIT! DE LA CHASSE. J. B. Gail. With an 
engraving of Diana by Chaudet. Paris, n.d., xxiii. 
et 227 pp. 

1472. SPORT 1 PARIS. Eugene Chapus. Chiefly relates 
to the turf, hunting, but also contains particulars of 
pistol shooting, rifle shooting, etc. Hachette, Paris, 
1854. 12mo. 

1473. L'OuvERTURE DE LA CHASSE. A one-act play, by 
Gustave Albitte and Desvergers. Paris, n.d. 

1474. CHASSE AU TIR. Songs. 131 pp., 5 ill. 



138 French Books. 



FEENCH BOOKS. 
GUNS, GUN MANUFACTURE, GUNNERY. 

1501. EXTRAIT DU COURS SUR LES ARMES. Cap. L. Panot. 

An instruction-book for the musketry instructor and 
for the use of non-commissioned officers. J. Dumaine, 
Paris, 1850. In 8vo. 

1502. TECHNOLOGIE DBS ARMES i FEU. Moritz Meyer. 
The best-known edition is the French translation made 
by M. Reiffel, and enlarged with many annotations. 
The work is a chronological history of firearms, and 
is in two parts : (1) from the invention of firearms, 
A . D . 401763 ; and (2) 17641832. Gen. Bracken- 
bury, in his paper on the history of firearms, says of 
this publication : " Contains a series of assertions and 
assumptions unsupported by any evidence, or even by 
references, and in some cases carrying on their faces 
the stamp of improbability. It is, therefore, as regards 
that portion which relates to the archaeology of cannon, 
utterly worthless to the student or antiquary." J. 
Correard, Paris, 1837. 8vo, 2 vols., 280 and 336 pp., 
exclusive of copious indices of 88 and 78 pp. 

1503. ARMES ET POUDRE DE CHASSE. Louis Roux. Lacroix, 
Paris, 1869. 12mo. 

1504. ARMES 1 FEU PORTATIVES. Rodolphe Schmidt. An 
account of hand firearms, from the date of their 
development from cannon until the present day. 
Translated by J. K Cuttat, and illustrated with 400 
chromolithograph drawings in 56 plates, forming a 
separate volume. This is a popular account of the 
development of military arms, and contains numerous 
descriptions of little known varieties of breechloaders. 
Ch. Tanera, Paris, 1877. Demy 4to, pp. 96, and atlas 
of 56 plates. 



Guns, Gun Manufacture, Gunnery. 139 

1504A. FUSIL SUISSE 1 REPETITION. R. Schmidt. This is 
a manual for users of the 1889 model Swiss repeating 
rifle. H. Georg, Bale, 1891. 16mo, 36 pp., and 
coloured folding plate. 

1505. MEMOIRES D'UN FUSIL. C. Diguet. An autobio- 
graphy of a sporting gun. Dentu, Paris, 1883. In 
12mo. 

1506. FUSIL ET SES PERFECTIONNEMENTS, avec Notes de 
Chasse. IF. W. Greener. A translation, by Georges 
Bonjour, of W. W. Greener's best known book. 
Firmiii Didot, Paris, 1884 (London printed). 4to, 
pp. vi, 522, 500 illustrations. 

1507. MANIEMENT ET USAGE DBS ARMES A FEU. A. de 
Metz-Noblat. A manual for all who use firearms ; 
treats of accidents in the field and elsewhere, and the 
means to avoid them. Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1889. 
18rno, 1 fr. ; bound, 1 fr. 50 c. 

1508. ARMES DE CHASSE. Arthur Guinard. A short 
history of sporting firearms, descriptions of modern 
varieties, and practical hints on their use. A concise 
and clearly written little work. Dentu, Paris, 1882. 
12 mo. 

1509. CHASSE ET TIR. Album Galand. A gunmaker's 
catalogue. Paris, Author. 8vo, 111 pp., 70th edition, 
1890. 

1510. FUSIL DE CHASSE, SES MUNITIONS ET SON TIR. 
General Faure-Biguet. Firmin Didot, Paris, 1891. 
18mo, pp. vii, 186. 

1511. LES ARMES. G. R. M. Maindron. May et Motherez, 
Paris, 1891. 8vo, 344 pp., with illustration. 

1512. ARMES DE GUERRE. Louis Figuier. A popular 
treatise on weapons, for the most part extracted from 
the " Merveilles de Science," and produced " pour 
renseigner le public " on the occasion of the declaration 
of war against Germany. Paris, Fume, Jouvet et 
Cie, 1870. 4to, 582 pp., woodcuts. 



140 French Books. 



1513. INSTRUCTION PROVISOIRE SUE LE DEMONTAGE, etc., 
DU FUSIL MOD. 1869. An instruction-book for the 
Comblain rifle. P. Vanderlinden, Bruxelles, 1871. 
In 12mo. 

1514. INSTRUCTION SUR LA NOMENCLATURE, etc., DU Mos- 
QUETON MODELE 1871. An instruction-book for the 
1871 pattern musket. E. Guyot, Bruxelles, 1872. In 
8vo, 1 p., 23 pp. 

1515. ARMES PORTATIVES. R. Lachevre. An instruction- 
book, being pt. 2, s. i. of the " Cours d'Artillerie." 
Lithographed for the use of students at the special 
schools. Various appendices have also been published 
in like manner. Fontainebleau, 1873. In 4to. An- 
other edition 1879. 

1516. LES ARMES PORTATIVES. R. Colard. A description 
of the Werndl and Frlihwerth rifles, and the Gasser 
revolver used in the Austro- Hungarian army 1874. 
8vo, 3 plates, 2 fr. (Rev. d'Artill. reprints.) 

1517. LES ARMES PORTATIVES EN ALLEMAGNE. A descrip- 
tive and critical account of the Bavarian Werder rifle, 
1869 model, reprinted with additions from the Rev. 
d'Artillerie of 1874. Berger-Levrault, Paris. Svo, 
plate, 1 fr. 50 c. 

1518. LES ARMES PORTATIVES EN ALLEMAGNE. A descrip- 
tion of the Mausor, 1871, model of the Prussian infantry. 
2nd edition, 1877. Svo, plate, 1 fr. The Mauser 
rifle, repeating model, 1882. Svo, plate, 50 c. Fusil 
d'lnfanterie, modele 18711884. Svo, plate, 1887, 
75 c. Fusil, 1888 modele. Svo, plate, 1890, 75 c. 
These brochures consist of reprints of various articles 
in the Rev. d'Artillerie, which have been published by 
Berger-Levrault, Paris. 

1519. LES ARMES PORTATIVES EN RUSSIE. L. Labiche. 
A descriptive account of the Berdan and Krnka rifles 
(Rev. d'Artillerie reprint), 1875. 8vo, 2 plates, 2 fr. 



Guns, Gun Manufacture, Gunnei^y. 141 

1520. LES ARMES PORTATIVES EN FRANCE. A description 
of the French 1874 model, Gras, infantry rifle, reprinted 
from the Rev. d'Artillerie, 1876. Svo, plate, 2 fr. 

1521. FUSIL RATIONNEL. E. Guillaumot. A disquisition 
upon and specification of the Nagant infantry breech- 
loader. C. Muquardt, Bruxelles, 1884. Svo, pp. 154, 
table and plates, illustrations in text. 

1522. ARMES A REPETITION. J. Raenkel. A descriptive 
account of the repeating rifles, other than French (Rev. 
d'Artillerie reprint), 1891. Svo, 3 plates, 1 fr. 50 c. 

1523. LEBEL contre Mannlicher et Vetterli. Colonel 
Ortus. A criticism of the Lebel, Mannlicher, and 
Vetterli systems, and prophecies as to their use in the 
next war. Baudoin, Paris, 1S92. Svo, 88 pp. 

1524. DE LA RASANCE DBS FUSILS DE PETIT CALIBRE. E. 
Pagine. Baudoin, Paris, 1892. Svo, 88 pp. 

1525. TRANSFORMATION DBS ARMES. De Sparre. A lecture 
on the principles which have permitted the conversion 
of firearms to newer systems. Lyon, 1892. Svo, 25 pp., 
illustrations. 

1526. ARMURERIE. Nouv. man. complet de 1'Armurerie, 
du Fourbisseur et de 1'Arquebusier. M. A. 0. Paulin- 
Desormeaux. This is one of the Manuels-Roret on 
the manufacturing arts, and is a practical treatise on 
gun-making, repairing, etc., with descriptions and 
illustrations of many varieties of firearms and fire- 
arms parts ; now quite out of date. Roret, Paris, 
1852, 18mo, 2 vols. : vol. i., pp. 396, vol. ii., pp. 792, 
17 folding plates, with 1600 figures. 

1527. TRAITE DU FUSIL DE CHASSE ET DBS ARMES DE 
PRECISION. H. Mangeot. This is a complete treatise, 
and quite up to the highest standard of the period 
at which published. Bruxelles, 1852 ; Bruxelles and 
Paris, 1854; Paris, 1857. Paris, Tanera, no date. 
All in Svo, 6 to 8 fr. 



142 French Books. 



1528. COUES ELEMENTAIRES SUR LES AEMES POETATIVES. 
F. Gillion. Contains a complete account of the method 
of manufacturing military arms in Liege. Liege, P. 
Gouchon, 1856, 8vo. 384 pp., 5 folding plates. 

1529. FABRICATION DBS AEMES POETATIVES. M. Dumord. 
A course of four lessons on gun-making by a chef of 
Artillery. October, 1874. In 4to. 

1530. MANUEL DE L'AETIFICIEE. A work for the Armourer 
Sergeant. E. Guyot, Bruxelles, 1877. In Svo. 

1531. FABRICATION DBS AEMES. J. Piebourg. A course 
of four lessons on practical arms manufacture by a 
professor attached to a French military academy, 
1881. In 4to. 

1532. ETUDE SUR L'ORGANISATION DU SERVICE TECHNIQUE 
DANS LES MANUFACTURES D'ARMES. G. Ply. An 
extract from the Revue de I'Artillerie. Nancy and 
Paris, 1888. 8vo, pp. 260 

1533. ENQUETE SUR LE MATJ&RIEL. An official report of 
the committee appointed to investigate the stores used 
in the Franco-German war. Part 4 contains all that 
relates to small arms. J. Dumaine, Paris, 1871. In 
Svo. 

1534. METALLURGIE DU FER. M. Dumord. A treatise 
on metallurgy by a professor of gunmaking. Imp. 
Nat. Paris, 1876, in 4to ; and E. Bourges, Fontaine- 
bleau, 1881. 

1535. L'EPREUVE DBS ARMES 1 FEU, AU PAYS DE LIEGE. 
Alphonse Polain. A history of the Liege firearms trade 
so far as shown by documents relating to the proof or 
possession of arms. The author was for many years 
director of the Liege proof -house. He collected a large 
number of legal documents and historical papers deal- 
ing with proof-house law, and his book was translated 
into English and largely circulated. H. V. Carmanne, 
Liege. 



(rims, Gun Manufacture, Gunnery. 143 

1536. BECHERCHES HISTORIQUES, sur 1'Epreuve des Armes 
a Feu au Pays de Liege. Jules Polain. This is a 
revised and enlarged edition of the work issued by the 
Director of the Liege proof- house, and it is the stan- 
dard work upon proof tests and the history of gun- 
barrel proving and the practice followed in Belgium, 
etc. H. Vaillant Carmanne, Liege, 1891, large 8vo, 
368 pp., 6 plates of plans, proof marks, etc., and 
woodcuts of proof marks in text, paper cover. 

1537. DES BANGS D'EPREUVES. Jules PoUdn. A brochure 
dealing with rules of foreign proof-houses, and the 
scale of charges imposed at Liege. H. V. Carmanne, 
Liege, 1892. 8vo, 28 pp. and folding table. 

1538. DES BANG D'EPREUVES, DE L'ORGANISATION. Jules 
Polain. A brochure describing the Liege proof -house, 
new rules relating to the proof of barrels thereat, and 
some remarks on the Hungarian proof law. H. V. 
Carmanne, Liege, 1892. 8vo, 32 pp. 

1539. BANG D'EPREUVES. Jules Polain. The law and 
rules of proof proposed in Germany. A brochure 
giving a translation of the Prussian Act to found 
proof-houses in the Empire of Germany. H. V. 
Carmanne, Liege, 1892. Svo, 24 pp. 

1540. BANGS D'EPREUVES. J. Polain. A brochure giving 
further documents relating to the establishment of 
proof-houses in Germany. H. V. Carmanne, Liege. 
1893. Svo, 56 pp. 

1541. BANG D'EPREUVES. Jules Polain. An interesting 
brochure on " The influence the gun-barrel proving- 
hoiises exert upon the gun manufacturing industry," 
together with a review of the work done in the year 
1892 at the English, French, Austrian, and Belgian 
proof -houses. H. V. Carmanne, Liege, 1893. 8vo, 
56 pp. 

1542. DISPOSITIONS LEGALES, Beiges, Frangaises, Anglaises, 
Autrichiennes et Allemandes, concernant la repression 
des frauds en matiere d'epreuves d'arrnes a feu. Juks 



144 French Books. 



Polain. A brochure giving precise details of the laws 
of various countries against forging proof-marks and 
possessing unproved arms. H. V. Carmanne, Liege, 
1894. 8vo, 68 pp., pamphlet. 

1543. BALISTIQUE. Experience sur la justesse comparee 
du tir & balles spheriques, plates, et longues. Didion. 
The author or writer of a treatise on ballistics published 
in nine parts at Metz, at various dates prior to 1860. 

1544. BALISTIQUE. Sur un appareil destine a figurer le 

mouvement des projectiles oblongs dans 1'air. J. 

Perrodon, 1875. 8vo, 4 illustrations, 1 franc. (Rev. 
d'Art. reprint.) 

1545. BALISTIQUE. De la resistance de Fair. C. E. Page, 
1878. 8vo, 1 franc. (Rev. d'Art. reprint.) 

1546. BALISTIQUE. Sur 1'etablissement des tables de Tir 
de 1'artillerie. Beauvoir. Trajectory formulae, 1878. 
8vo. 2 francs 50 cents. (Rev. d'Art. reprint.) 

1547. BALISTIQUE. Sur le mouvement des projectiles 
oblongs dans 1'air. E. Muzeau, 1879. 8vo, 25 illustra- 
tions. 2 francs. (Rev. d'Art. reprint.) 

1548. BALISTIQUE CHRONOGRAPHS PENDULE DE M. CASPER- 
SEN. L. Cochard, 1882. Svo, plates. 50 cents. (Rev. 
d'Art. reprint.) 

1549. BALISTIQUE. Theorie elementaire des phenomenes 
qui presentent le gyroscope, la toupie et le projectile 
oblong. E. Jouffret, 1874. Svo, 1 franc. (Rev. d'Art. 
reprint.) 

1550. BALISTIQUE. Etude balistique sur les bouches & 

feu, etc. J. B. V. Lefevre, 1891. Svo, 9 illustra- 
tions. (Reprint from the Memorial de I'Artitterie de la 
Marine.) 

1551. BALISTIQUE. Influence de la diminution progressive 
des vitesses initiales donnees par les cartouches metal- 
liques sur la portee du fusil d'infanterie. J. B. V. 
Lefevre. 1882. Svo, 75 cents. (Rev. d'Art. reprint.) 



Guns, Gun Manufacture, Gunnery. 145 

1552. BALISTIQUE. Determination des vitesses des pro- 
jectiles au moyen des phenomenes sonores. Capt. 
Gossot. 1891. Svo, 1 franc 25 cents. (Reprint from 
the Mem. de I' Art. de la Marine.) 

1553. BALISTIQUE. Essai sur les principes de la balistique 
exterieure. E. Vallier. 1886. Svo, 1 franc. (Rev. 
d'Art reprint.) 

1554. BALISTIQUE. Sur les methodes actuelles de balis- 
tique. E. Vallier. 1890. Svo, 1 franc 25 cents. 
(Rev. d'Art.) 

1555. BALISTIQUE EXTERIEURE. This is an annotated 
translation into French of the celebrated work of 
F. Siacci by P. Laurent, and is followed by a " Note 
sur les projectiles discoi'des," by F. Chapel. Berger- 
Levrault, Paris, 1892. Svo, 60 illustrations, 490 pp., 
paper, 12 francs. 

1556. INSTRUCTION SUR LE TIR DU FUSIL RATE. A text- 
book of musketry for the use of the French Infantry 
and Carabineers armed with rifles. Imp. Roy., Paris, 
1861. 12nio. 

1557. TIR AU PISTOLET. Adolphe d'Houdetot. A treatise 
on revolver shooting, chiefly theoretical, but with 
practical hints. Four editions published. Charpentier, 
1864 (last edition) ; the second edition 1843. 

1558. TIR AU FUSIL DE CHASSE. A. d'Houdetot. A com- 
plete work on the art of shooting with the shot gun, 
the target rifle, and the pistol. Charpentier, Paris, 
1857, 1865. 12mo, illustrations, 3 francs. 

1559. REGLES DE TIR DU MOUSQUETON, m. 1871. An 
instruction-book. E. Guyot, Bruxelles, 1872. In 
12mo, pp. i, 14. 

1560. INSTRUCTION SUR L'EMPLOI DU TUBE 1 TIR. A pro- 
visional order relating to the vise of shooting tubes for 
practice. Imp. Nat., Paris, 1873. In 18mo, 48 pp. 

10 



146 French Books. 



1561. INSTRUCTION DE Tin. A manual for the use of 
officers and military schools. Published with the 
approval of the Minister of War. J. Dumaine, Paris, 
1873. In 8vo. 

1562. INSTRUCTION POUR TIR. A manual for the use of 
the musketry instructor of the Swiss infantry. K. J. 
Weiss, Berne, 1881. In 12mo. 

1563. FUSIL SUR L'EPAULE. F. Pharaon (M. de Cherville). 
A book of no particular interest by the author of a 
treatise on Venerie, and writer of the notes " La Vie 
en Plein Air," in the Paris Figaro. These notes for 
1885, 1886, were published separately in 12mo. 

1564. LE TIREUR INFALLIBLE. This is the French edition 
of "The Dead Shot," by "Marksman" The trans- 
lation by H. Robinson. Goin, Paris, 1861. 8vo, illus- 
trated. 

1565. TIR DE CHASSE RAISONN. T. Sourbe. A theory of 
shooting based on the Franco -English method; dog- 
breaking, sporting hints, etc. Paris, 1885. 12mo, 
3 francs. 

1566. TIR DU GIBIER. Jules F. Petit. On the art of 
wing shooting : why one misses, how one hits. In- 
structions for the young sportsman. Paris, 1885. 
16mo. 

1567. CHASSE A TIR MISE 1 LA PORTE DE Tous. L. 
Boussenard. A manual for sportsmen; hints on 
shooting, etc. Paris, 1887. One vol. 12mo. 

1568. LE CHAPITRE DBS ACCIDENTS. Maurice Alhoy. A 
book illustrating the " accidents " of the chase. 
Paris, n.d. 

1569. CHAPITRE DES ACCIDENTS. Maurice Alhoy. With 
illustrations by Victor Adam. A book of pictures 
illustrating sporting episodes. Soulie, Paris, n.d. In 
8vo oblong. 



Guns, Gun Manufacture, Gunnery. 147 

1570. TIR. L. D. A. J. Pons. A brochure on the 
shooting of infantry in general. 1882. 8vo, 51 
illustrations, table, 3 francs 50 cents. There is also a 
brochure, "Etude sur le Tir de 1'Infanterie," 1883, 8vo, 
9 illustrations, 2 francs 50 cents. Both are reprints 
from the Revue Maritime. 

1571. L'OUTILLAGE D'UNE ARME. G. Befhuys and C. 
Manceau. A volume written to popularise military 
technics. There is a good introduction treating of the 
development of weapons from the stone age. The first 
ninety pages deal with small arms, the concluding 
portions of the volume of artillery, fortifications, etc. 
The illustrations are numerous, but of mediocre quality. 
Lecene, Oudin & Co., Paris, 1892. Gr. 8vo, 320 pp. 
Woodcuts and process blocks in text. 

1572. FUSIL DE CHASSE, " Hammerless," comment s'en 
servir. A translation by A. and G. Guinard of "The 
Breechloader, and How to Use it," by W. W. Greener. 
Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1894. 8vo, 390 pp., Plates and 
woodcuts in text, 3 francs. 



MODEEN GEEMAN BOOKS. 

GENERAL WORKS.-MILITARY RIFLES. 
MUSKETRY. GUN-MAKING. SPORTING. 

1601. KRIEGSWAFFEN. Emil Capitaine and Ph. von 
Hertling. A periodical devoted to modern military 
armaments. The first volume illustrates a few leading 
principles of breechloading, and was published at 
Berlin in 1888. 8vo, pp. xii, 176 and 96, profusely 
illustrated. The fifth volume was published in 1893 
by M. Babenzien, Rathenow, a 4to of 262 pp. In 
progress. 

1602. GESCHICHTE DER WAFFEN. F. U. von Specht. A 
complete and comprehensive work on weapons generally. 
The treatment is original, and the material has been 
gathered with care and well selected ; the work is one 
of the most painstaking and thorough of any 011 the 
subject. Vol. I., Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age, 
526 pp., 18 folding plates. II., Australasian and 
American, 674 pp., xxiv plates. III., African, etc., 
902 pp., xvi plates, 1877. C. Luckhardt, Cassel and 
Leipzig, 1870, etc. 8vo, 2 vols. ; 19 parts issued. 

1603. HANDFEUER WAFFEN, ihre Entstehung, etc. Rud. 
Schmidt. The original edition of " Armes a Feu por- 
tatives" (q.v., No. 1504). The Atlas of 56 plates is 
the same. B. Schwabe, Basel, 1878. 4to, 2 vols. 

1604. NEUERUNGEN im Bewaffnungswesen der Infanterie. 
R. Schmidt. Forms a continuation of the earlier work, 
bringing it down to 1882. 

148 



General Works. Military Rifles, etc. 149 

1605. NEUERUNGEN, etc. R. Schmidt. A supplement 
continuing the work to 1885. 

1606. ALLGEMEINE WAFFENKUNDE DER INFANTERIE. R. 
Schmidt. A treatise on modern military small arms. 
Volume of text and atlas of 23 engraved plates with 
400 illustrations. B. Schwabe, Basel, 1888. 25 marks. 

1607. GESCHICHTLICHE ENTWICKELUNG DER HANDFEUER 
WAFFEN. M. Thierbach. An elaborate treatise on the 
development of the infantry rifle, the early portion 
chiefly from German sources. The first portion deals 
chiefly with the lock mechanism, the third wholly with 
breechloaders. 0. Hockner, Dresden, 1888. Long 
4to, 538 pp., 34 double-page coloured litho. plates, 
comprising 111 separate illustrations. 

1608. RUCKLADUNGSGEWEHRE. Mattenheimer. Fragments 
of a history of breechloaders and their development. 
Seidel, Vienna, 1876. 102 coloured plates. 9 florins. 
A supplement, " Neue Folge," sheets 103-11, 1890. 1 
florin 68 kreuzers. 

1609. HINTERLADERGEWEHRE. F. Hentsch. A series of 
monographs on the small arms in use in the various 
European armies. No. 2, for instance, treats of the 
history of the breechloader in the Dutch army. Fr. 
Luckhardt, Leipzig, 1873. 8vo, 55 pp. and 5 
lithographed plates. Sweden, Norway and Denmark 
are treated in another volume of 143 pp. and 6 
plates, published in 1879 j French arms in another 
published in the same year, 173 pp., 7 plates. The 
work is now to some extent superseded by the periodical 
Kriegswaffen, of which one volume appears annually. 
See No. 1601. 

1610. BESCHREIBUNG. A description of the French 1886 
model gun. Seidel, Wien, 1888. 24 kreuzers. 

1611. REPETIR-GEWEHRE. A text-book of the 1888 model, 
with lithographed plate, 1888. 



150 Modern German Books. 

1612. REPETIR-GEWEHRE. A history of the origin and 
development of repeating arms, with descriptions of 
the varieties in use. A well-arranged compilation, 
clearly printed in Roman type. E. Zernin, Darmstadt 
and Leipzig, 1882. 8vo, 256 pp., 56 woodcuts, 
numerous tables, paper covers. 

1613. GEWEHR, der Gegenwart und Zukunft, 1883. 

1614. GEWEHR. Gegenwartige Stand de Bewaffnungsfrage 
der Infanterie. One lithograph, 1886. 

1615. GEWEHR. The new rifle and smokeless powder, with 
explanatory drawings. L. W. Seidel, Wien, 1890. 
Part I. 

1616. HANDFEUERWAFFEN. Laukmayr. Part IV. of 
" Waffenlehre " treats of hand firearms. Seven tables, 
four sheets of drawings. 1888. 

1617. HANDBUCH DBS OSTERUNGEN HANDFEUERWAFFEN. 

Laukmayr. A military text-book. Seidel, Wien, 
1888. Seven plates. 

1618. WlCHTIGSTEN REPETIR-VERSCHLUSS-, SchloSS- Ulld 

Abzugs Mechanismus sammt, Kurzer geschichtlicher 
Entwicklung des neuen Osterreichischen Armee- 
Gewehrs (188 m.). Hogg. A short account of the 
1888 Austrian Mannlicher rifle ; 2 plates, 80 figures. 
Seidel, Wien, 1888. 

1619. DREH- UND REPETIRPISTOLEN. C. H. Schmidt. A 
short practical treatise on the pistol and revolver and 
its manufacture. B. F. Voigt, Weimar, 1858. 8vo, 
228 pp., 6 engraved folding plates of pistols and 
machinery. 

1620. INFANTERIE GEWEHR. E.Tkiel. A technical treatise 
on the ballistics of the infantry rifle. Bonn, 1883. 8vo. 

1621. TECHNISCHE ENTWICKELUNG. H. Weygand. A 

treatise on the development of the infantry rifle as 

a weapon of precision. Berlin and Leipzig, 1876-8, 
8vo, 3 parts. 



General Works. Military Rifles, etc. 151 

1622. BALLISTIK DER HANDFEUERWAFFEN. A. Indra. The 
ballistic qualities of small arms shown in a series of 
comparative tables. Seidel, Wien, 1879. 1 plate, 24 pp. 

1623. BALLISTIK. Theoretische aussere Ballistik nebst 
einer Anleitung zur praktischen Ermittlung der 
Flugbahn-Elemente. Mieg. 1884, 5 plates, 10 marks. 

1624. BALLISTIK. Rotation der Geschosse. Pfister. 1864, 
1 plate. 

1625. BALLISTIK. Beurtheilung unserer ballistischen 
Rechenforineln. Pfister. 1882. 

1626. BALLISTIK. Theorie des schiessens der Handfeuer- 
waffen. Hentsch. A popular treatise on theoretical 
gunnery. Seedel, Wien, 1878, 2 parts, 4 illustrations. 

1627. BALLISTIK DER HANDFEUERWAFFEN. Hentsch. With 
23 tables. 1876. 4to. 

1628. BALLISTIK. Theoretische Studien zur Ballistik zur 
gezogenen Gewehre. Cranz. Compai-ative ballistics. 
8vo, 11 illustrations. 1887. 



1629. BALLISTIK. Neue Theorie der Flugbahn von Lange- 
schossen auf Grund einer neuen Theorie der Drehung 
der Korper. Dahne, Vienna, 1888. 8vo. 

1630. BALLISTIK DER GEZOGENEN FEUERWAFFEN, niit einer 
mathematiscl 
table. 1884. 



mathematischer Einleitung. Dam van Isselt. One 



1631. DAS KLEINSTE KALiBER ; oder das zukiinftige Infan- 
trie gewehr. F. W. Hebler. A mathematical treatise 
on calibres, velocity, etc. A Miiller, Zurich and 
Leipzig, 1886. 8vo, 142 pp., 4 tables and 2 plates. 

1632. INSTRUCTION FUR WAFFEN-OFFICIERE, etc. An 
official text-book for officers, and more particularly 
armourers, respecting the Werndl breech action. Hof 
& Staatsdruch, Vienna, 1878. 



152 Modern German Books. 

1633. BETRACHTUNG liber die Schiess iibungen der Infan- 
terie. A treatise on marksmanship and the handling 
of the rifle, by a Prussian staff officer. 1882. 8vo 
pamphlet. 

1634. ELEMENTARE SCHIESSTHEORIE. Lauffer & Winch. 
Seedel, Wien, 1884, 101 figures. 

1635. ZUKUNFTS GEWEHR, seine Wirkung. K. Krnka. 
With 1 plate. 1884. 

1636. WAFPENTECHNIK. Erfindung der Neuzeit auf dem 
Gebiete der Waffentechnik zur Erhohung der Feuer- 
schnelligkeit bei Handfeuerwaffen. Kromar. Four 
plates. 1885. 

1637. GRUNDRISS DER WAFFENLEHRE. K. T. von Sauer. 
A comprehensive technical book covering every variety 
of small firearms. Th. Biedel, Munich, 1876. Large 
8vo, pp. vi, 568, and supplement of 76 pp., 12 plates of 
illustrations and 30 others bound, and a separate 
atlas. 

1638. 
1639. 
1640.- 

1641. MODERNS GEWEHR FABRIKATION. F. Brandeis. An 
elaborate text-book or manual of instruction for the 
gunsmith. The principles of firearms construction 
carefully stated and numerous varieties of sporting 
gun mechanisms described. This work goes more 
fully into gunmaking details than any book since 
published, and is singularly free from theory and con- 
troversial matter. B. F. Voigt, Weimar, 1881. Svo, 
402 pp. An atlas 4to, 22 folio plates, with 430 figures. 

1642. DIE JAGDGEWEHRE DER GEGENWART. Georg Koch. 
"A handbook for sportsmen." .A short treatise on 
firearms, covering much the same ground as W. W. 
Greener's " Modern Shot Guns," but having chapters 



General Works. Military Rifles, etc. 153 

on revolvers and rifled guns. B. F. Voigt, Weimar, 
1891. Demy 8vo, 152 pp., 94 illustrations. 

1643. JAGD-, SCHIEBEN- UND SCHUTZ-WAFFEN. Ig. Neu- 
mann. A book on sporting weapons and target rifles. 
Voigt, Weimar, 1872. 8vo, 1 mark 50 pfge. 

1644. WESEN DER HINTERLADUNGS-GEWEHRE. Ig. Neu- 
mann. A complete treatise on breechloading mechan- 
isms. Voigt, Weimar, 1880. 8vo, 27 litho. plates, 
3 marks 75 pfge. 

1645. JAGD-FLINTE. W. W. Greener. A translation by H. 
Leue of " Modern Shot Guns " with additions ; a chapter 
on rifles, and numerous fresh illustrations and full-page 
plates. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1894. Svo. 

1646. MODELLBUCH FUR BtJCHSENMACHER. C. Martin. 

A book of illustrations of many varieties of guns, with 
simple descriptions intended to serve as a gunmaker's 
catalogue. Voigt, Weimar. 8vo, large folio, 32 plates, 
2 marks. 



1651. DER JAGDLIEBHABER in der Schule der gerechten 
Waidmann's und Vogelstellers, unterhaltende Beleisti- 
gungen auf dem Lande mit der Jagd, dem Vogel- 
fange . . . mit 2 litho. Von Ehrenkreutz. Weimar, 
Voigt, 1856. In 8vo. 

1652. DER DEUTSCHE SCHUTZE in alien ihm vorkommenden 
Lagen und Verhaltnissen auf dem Scheibenstand, im 
Krieg, und auf der Jagd. Mit vielen Holschnitt. 
C. Pistoris. Warnberg, Zeh., 1862. Gr. in Svo. 

1653. WALDSCHNEPFE UND IHRE JAGD. R. A. v. Benburg. 
Gartner, Berlin, 1857, 1866. 

1654. PRAKTISCHE JAGER. Rob. Bermisch. A manual of 
instruction for sportsmen. Adler et Dictze, Dresden 
(2nd edition), 1859. 



154 Modern German Books. 

1655. WAIDMANN'S-FAHRTEN. A. v. Basedow. Sporting 
rhymes. Leipzig, Schmidt, 1865. 8vo. 

1656. GESETZE ZUM SCHUTZE DER FORSTER UND FORST- 
BEAMTEN. F. J. J. Bank. A treatise on the Prussian 
forest laws, fines, etc., etc. G. Renner, Berlin, 1867. 
8vo. 

1657. DIE JAGD und ihre Wandlungen in Wort und Bild. 
R. Cornell. This book was the outcome of the Cleves 
Sporting Exhibition, and is a clever compilation. 
Harms, Amsterdam, 1883. Large folio, 384 pp., wood- 
cuts. 



MODERN ITALIAN BOOKS. 



1701. ARCHIBUSO DI NUOVA FOGGIA. Domenico Berio. 
Relates to the use of fulminate. See p. 2, ch. v., 
Vol. XL., of the " Memoirs of the Academy of Science 
of Turin." Not separately published. 

1702. TIRO DELL ARMI Fuoco. Du Quesnay A. Delorme. 
Relates principally to the shooting of the Italian 
infantry, but is denounced by military critics as a 
useless publication. The work is that of A. 
Desbordeliers. A version from the French was made 
by Malagoli Vecchi of Modena, and another version 
appeared in Genoa later. Florence, 1848, in Svo ; 
Genoa, 1851, in Svo. 

1703. STORIA DEL TIRO FEDERALS SVIZZERO. Luigi Torrdli. 
Torino, 1851. 

1704. MANUALS DEL CACCIATORE. Alberta Bacchi della 
Leg a. Bologna, 1876. 

1705. MANUALE DEL CACCIATORE ITALIANO. E. Azzi. A 
modern cyclopaedia of shooting and sporting arms ; the 
gun portion written by Dr. Azzi, the kennel contributed 
by F. Delor and N. Camusso. A carefully compiled 
work, fairly written, and got up in an attractive style ; 
the illustrations are numerous, but not all original. 
Dumolard Brothers, Milan, 1887. Demy Svo, 907 pp., 
woodcuts and plates, half vellum, 25 lire. 

1706. ARMI A RIPETIZIONE. Ippolito Viglezzi. A 
technical treatise on modern magazine guns. The 
Kropatschek and Mannlicher systems are compared 

155 



156 Modern Italian Books. 

in detail, and the whole question of military small 
arms thoroughly entered into. Voghera Carlo, Rome, 
1890. 8vo, 262 pp., numerous figures in 40 engraved 
folding plates. 

1707. FUSILI DA CACCIA MODERNI. W. W. Greener. An 
English edition of " Modern Shot Guns." The trans- 
lation, by the Marchese G. D'Adda Salvatera, is a 
very good one, and the edition is well printed on good 
paper. Preface by " Grilletto " (Dr. E. Azzi), who 
appears to have revised the translation. P. B. Bellini 
& Co., Milan, 1890. Large 8vo, 202 pp., illustrations 
as in English editions, 5 hre. 



MODERN SPANISH BOOKS. 

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. 

1801. FABRICA DE FUSILS DE OVIEDO. D. Manuel Paez 
Jaramillo. An account of the firearms factory at 
Oviedo, included in the Mem. Artilleria, 1850; also 
published separately. 

1802. PROJECTO UNA ESCUELA DE TIRO. D. Jose A. 
Berruezo. The prospectus of a shooting school for 
Madrid. Madrid, 1851. 1 vol. 8vo. 

1803. CACERIAS EN MARRUCCOS. J. Alvarez-Perez. Au- 
thentic adventures of a Spaniard. Madrid, Printed 
for the Society of Instruction and Recreation. 8vo. 

1804. RESENA DE LAS ARMAS PORTATILES. D. Santiago 
Loriya. A writer on military subjects and contributor 
to the Mem. Artilleria. This paper forms a continuation 
to that published in 1852 on the "Fusil Reformado." 
Madrid, 1 vol. 8vo. 

1805. HISTORIA DE UN FUSIL, 1853. D. Manuel d. Burto. 
Appeared in the Revista Militar. Madrid, 1853. 

1806. FUSILES DE AGUJA FULMiNANTE. D. Luis de Anstegui 
y Doz. An early notice of the Dreyse percussion gun ; 
compare with Mosar's account, published in Mem. 
Artilleria, 1854. London, 1853, 10 pp. pamphlet. 

1807. ESTADO ACTUAL DE LAS ARMAS DE FUEGO. D. J. M. 

Aparici y Bredma. A translation from the French. 
See Arts, et Rev. Mil, 1854, t. xv. 

157 



158 Modern Spanish Books. 

1808. TIRO CON LA CARABINA. D. Vicente Atienza y 
Martinez. Lessons in military rifle shooting. Habana, 
1859. 1 vol. 4to, 12 illustrations. 

1809. ESCUELA MILITAR DE TIRO. D. Jose Coello y Quesada. 
A study on the subject of military schools for the 
practice of musketry. Rivadeneyra. Madrid, 1859. 
1 vol. 8vo. 

1810. ENSAYO TEORICO-PRACTICO SOBRE LAS ARMAS POR- 
TATILES. D. Miguel Correct, and D. F. Martinez de 
Viergol. Part I. : Infantry arms. Madrid, 1859. 
1 vol. 8vo. 

181 1. MANUAL DE TIRO. D. M. Correa and D. F. Martinez 
y Viergol. A text-book for sergeants and musketry 
instructors. Estrada, Madrid, 1864. 1 vol. 8vo, 
plates. 

1812. ARMAS PORTATILES CARGADAS FOR LA RECAMARA. 
D. J. Buega. A treatise on military breechloaders, 
written in New York in 1866, and inserted in the 
Mem. Artitt., ser. 2, t. vi. Was translated into French 
and separately published. Correard, Paris, 1867. 
1 vol. 8vo. 

1813. ARMAMENTO DE LA INFANTERIA. D. E. Gonzalez 
Velasco. A treatise on the arms actually in use with 
European armies, and a historico-descriptive summary 
of breechloading small arms. Madrid, 1867. 1 vol. 
8vo, 6 plates. 

1814. CHASSEPOT. Particulars of the Chassepot rifle, 
translated into Spanish from the French. Mem. Art., 
second series, t. vii., 1868. 

1815. EXAMEN CRITICO DEL ARMAMENTO FRANCES. A 
critique of the armament of the French during the 
German war. Madrid, 1870. 1 vol. 4to. 

1816. ARMAMENTO MODELO DE 1871. Report of the com- 
mission on the new gun, Remington, and the order in 
respect thereto. Madrid, 1871. 1 vol. Svo, 108 pp. 



General Works. 159 



1817. REGLAMENTO PARA DE LA REAL MONTEKIA, BAL- 
LESTERIA Y ARMERIA. Baron Benifayo. Madrid, 1871. 

1818. GAZA Y su LEGISLACION. /. Joaquin de Bada. A 
treatise on sport, the use of arms and the game laws, 
more particularly the enforcement of the latter by 
local authorities. J. Miret, Barcelona, 1879. 8vo. 

1819. CURSO ELEMENTAL DE TIRO. D. Jore Ferron y 
Saavedra. An elementary course of lessons, theo- 
retical and practical, on the art of rifle shooting. 
Cuevas y Menneras, Madrid. 1 vol. 8vo, 336 pp., 
12 plates. 

1820. ESCOPETAS MODERNAS. W. W. Greener. A Spanish 
edition of " Modern Shot Guns " (q.v.). The translation, 
by Messrs. Arts y Ocon, is not good. Malaga, Gallegos 
y Urbano, 1893 (?). Small 4to, 222 pp., woodcuts 
as in 2nd English edition, 5 pesetas. 



MODERN BOOKS (VARIOUS). 

1901. BIJBKAGEN tot de kennis van het getrokken geschut 
naar Schmoelzl, von feilitzen maievoky en anderen. 
A. G. Kempers. A book on gunnery, by an artillery 
captain. Utrecht, 1860. Demy 8vo, 176 pp., 5 litho. 
folding plates. 

1911. ILLUSTRERAD IDROTTSBOK HANDLEDNING i OLIKA 
GRENAR AF IDROTT OCR LEKAR. V. Balck. An ency- 
clopsedia of sports and pastimes, with instructions for 
every amusement, from playing the Jew's harp to 
driving a four-in-hand. The shooting portion by 
0. B. Rydholm, and the chapter on firearms by C. 
Lempchen. These portions are largely translations of 
the Badminton Library, and W. W. Greener's " Gun 
and its Development," from which illustrations have 
been reproduced. Issued in parts by C. E. Fritze, 
Stockholm. Commenced in 1886, 30 parts published 
to end of 1888. 8vo, 1 or 2 kroner each part, 
1000 illustrations, woodcuts. 

1921. RUSSIAN. Instructions for shooting with the Smith 
and Wesson revolver. Epichin. Published for the 
Smith and Wesson Revolver Works, U.S.A. 

1922. RUSSIAN. Roojia. W. W. Greener. A translation 
by L. Tarnovski of "The Gun and its Development." 
L. Sabanaev, Moscow, 1887. 4to, 2 vols. 



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PART Ml. 

Hppen&fces. 



n 



A SHOKT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
EXPLOSIVES. 

NOTE. In addition to the works given below, particulars of the 
early use and manufacture of gunpowder are given in most of 
the early treatises on firearms, particularly Nos. 11, 13, 43, 123, 
139, 143, 145. 147, 149, 173, 205, 232, 354, 360, 361, and 362 in 
Part I. For the Invention of Gunpowder see Daniel's " Histoire 
de Milice"; H. A. Hoyer's " Geschichte des Kriegskunst " ; and 
Beckman's " History of Inventions." For early use in England, 
Harleian MSS., "Richard III., anno 1483," Eccleston's "English 
Antiquities," Smith's "Military Discourses inEllis's Original Letters " 
(Camden Society's edition, p. 53) ; also for Manufacture Bohlen's 
" Alte Indien," vol. ii., p. 68. See also "List of Technical Papers, 
etc.," Nos. 2201 et seq. 



BOOKS RELATING TO GUNPOWDER 

2101. GUNPOWDER MANUFACTURE. A statement of facts 
relative to the savings which have arisen from manu- 
facturing gunpowder at the Royal powder-mills ; and 
of the improvements which have been made in its 
strength and durability since the year 1783. Sir W. 
Congreve. Dedicated to Lord Mulgrave, privately 
published, printed by J. Whiting, Finsbury Place, 
1811. 8vo, 44 pp. 

2102. MANUFACTURE OF GUNPOWDER as carried on at the 
Government Factory, Waltham Abbey. Major Fraser 
Baddeley. A privately issued pamphlet. E. Littler. 
Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, 1857. Demy 8vo, 44 pp. 

2103. MEMOIR ON GUN-POWDER; in which are discussed 
the principles both of its manufacture and proof. 
J. Braddock. This book was printed at public expense, 

163 



164 Appendices. 



300 copies only issued, and it is somewhat rare ; 
the only copy I have been able to examine formerly 
belonged to M. Faraday, and is now in the Patent 
Library. Madras, 1829. 8vo, pp. viii, 138. 

2104. MEMOIR ON GUN-POWDER. John Braddock. This 
is the London edition of No. 2103 ; it was also trans- 
lated into French as " Notes on Manufacture of Gun- 
powder in the East Indies, by Ravichio de Peretsdorf" 
Paris, 1840. London, 1832. 8vo. 

2105. SKETCH of the mode of manufacturing Gunpowder 
at the Ishapore Mills in Bengal, with a record of the 
experiments carried on to ascertain the value of 
charge, windage, vent, and weight, etc., in mortars 
and muskets ; also reports of the various proofs of 
powder. Col. W. A'nderson ; with notes and additions 
by Lieut.-Col. Parlby. This is a comprehensive and 
apparently exhaustive work. J. Weale, London, 1862, 
303 pp., plates, tables, etc. 

2106. HANDBOOK of the manufacture and proof of Gun- 
powder as carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, 
Waltham Abbey. F. Smith. This is a serviceable 
handbook. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1870. Demy 8vo, 
132 pp., plates. 

2107. NOTES ON GUNPOWDER, by a manufactui-er. A 
pamphlet issued gratuitously by Messrs. Curtiss and 
Harvey. Contains some practical hints on loading 
shot cartridges, and states the advantages which black 
gunpowder possesses when compared with the nitro 
compounds. 74, Lombard Street, London, 1890, etc. 
8vo, cloth limp. 

2108. GUNPOWDER. Methode suivie & la Poudrerie du 
Bouchet, pour les essais et analyses des salpetres 
raffines. F. Castan, 1880. 8vo, 1 franc (Rev. d'Art 
reprint). 

2109. TEORIA CHIMICA DELLA COMPOSIZIONE DELLE POLVERE 
A Fuoco. Carlo Sobrero. A work of considerable 
interest, and based upon a long study of explosives. 



Modern High Explosives, etc. 165 

The author was a Commandant of Artillery. Mil. Tip., 
Torino, 1852. Svo. 

2110. INDEX TO THE LITERATURE OF EXPLOSIVES. C. F. 
Munroe. A Bibliography and Index to articles in 
Technical Magazines. Baltimore, 1893. Svo, 195 pp. 



MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES, ETC. 

2111. NEUMEYER'S INEXPLOSIVE GUNPOWDER. An in- 
ventor's description, etc. Published for E. H. Newby, 
1867. 4to, 44 pp. 

2112. EXPLOSIVE AGENTS. F. A. Abel. A lecture on 
recent investigations and applications of explosives. 
Read before the British Association at Edinburgh, 
1871. Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1871. 
Demy Svo, 40 pp. 

2113. EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS. Perry F. Nursey. The 
text of a paper read before, and discussion at, the 
Society of Engineers, November 1871. Privately 
printed, London, 1871. Svo, 145 pp. (Patent Library, 
London.) 

2114. NOTES ON GUNPOWDER AND GUN-COTTON. W. H. 
Wardell. Extracts from Service Notes for the use of 
the Cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 
J. Cattermole, Woolwich, 1882. Demy Svo, 52 pp. 

2115. EXPLOSIVES. W. P. Bloxham. Text of a paper 
read before the Science Society of King's College, 
London. W. Pile, Wallington. 8vo pamphlet, 40pp., Qd. 

2116. REPORT. Experiments in Gunpowder made at 
Washington Arsenal, 1843-4. A. Mordecai. (Official.) 
Washington, D.C., 1845. Demy Svo, 328 pp., S plates. 

2117. SHORT NOTES on the Manufacture of Gunpowder 
and Gun-cotton, prepared for the use of the Gentlemen 
Cadets of the R. M. Academy, Woolwich. 0. H. 
Goodenouyh. Woolwich, 1872. 4to, 24 pp., 4 pp. plates. 



166 Appendices. 



2118. RESEARCHES ON EXPLOSIVES. Fired Gunpowder. 
Captain Noble and F. A. Abel. Reprinted from the 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Perth, 
1875. Triibner & Co., London, 1875. 4to, i33 pp., 
illustrations in text and 11 plates. 

2119. MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Manuel Eider. A 
handbook to nitro-glycerine and dynamite, their 
manufacture and use, and application to various 
purposes ; pyroxiline or gun-cotton, the fulminates, 
picrates and chlorates, also the chemistry and analysis 
of the elementary bodies which enter into the manu- 
facture of the principal nitro-compounds. Chiefly 
from the mining engineer's point of view. J. Urley 
& Sons, New York, 1884. Demy 8vo, 395 pp., wood- 
cuts, etc. 

2120. HANDBOOK ON MODERN EXPLOSIVES. M. Eisler. 
" A practical treatise on the manufacture and applica- 
tion of dynamite, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine and other 
explosive compounds, including the manufacture of 
collodion-cotton." Crosby Lockwood, 1890. Crown 8vo, 
318 pp., 100 illustrations in the text. 

2121. EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR POWER. A condensed trans- 
lation of M. Berthelot, by C. Napier Hake and W. 
Macnab, with a preface by J. P. Cundill. This gives 
the results of M. Berthelot's researches in a succinct 
form. J. Murray, London, 1892. Demy 8vo, 564 pp., 
illustrations. 

2122. SMOKELESS EXPLOSIVES. Roos. A pamphlet. 
McLure, Victoria Street, London, 1894. 

2123. DICTIONARY OF EXPLOSIVES. J. P. Cundill. Gives 
the composition of nearly all known explosives and the 
properties of many of them. W. J. Mackay & Co., 
Chatham, 1889. Demy 8vo, 104 pp., interleaved. 

2124. NOTES ON EXPLOSIVES. Dr. W. R. HodgUnwn. A 

pamphlet, 6d. 



Modern High Explosives, etc. 167 

2125. MODERN GUNS AND SMOKELESS POWDER. Arthur 
Rigg and James Garvie. E. & F. N. Spon, London. 
A short treatise on cordite and the use of smokeless 
explosives in ordnance. 1892. Demy Svo, 84 pp., 
diagrams. 

2126. THE MANUFACTURE OF MODERN EXPLOSIVES. Oscar 
Guttmann. A practical treatise on factory and 
laboratory work. Whittaker & Co., London, 1894. 

2127. EXPLOSIVES. W. J. Orsman. A lecture delivered 
at University College, Nottingham, Nov. 25th, 1893, 
and giving in popular language a succinct history and 
description of the chemical composition of modern high 
explosives. London, 1894. Svo pamphlet. 

2128. ROYAL GUNPOWDER FACTORY, Waltham Abbey. 
First Report of the Committee appointed to inquire 
into the accident on the 13th December, 1893, and 
also into the construction, etc., of the danger buildings 
at Waltham Abbey and the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 
together with minutes of evidence and appendices. 
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1894. Fcap. folio, 2s. 

2129. EXPLOSIVES. Annual Report of H. M. Inspectors. 
The eighteenth (for 1893). Eyre & Spottiswoode, 
London, 1894. Fcap. folio, Is. id. 

2130. HANDBOOK TO THE EXPLOSIVES ACT and Orders in 
Council. V. D. Majendie. A text-book for Explosive 
Inspectors, Explosive Manufacturers, and all interested 
in the licensing of persons and places as provided by 
the Explosives Act of 1875, and later Orders in Council 
relating thereto. Harrison & Sons, London, 1878, etc., 
various editions. 16mo, 2s. 

2131. POUDRE SANS FuMEE ET LES POUDRES ANCIENNES. 

A. Ponteaux. Damidot, Dijon, 1892. 8vo, pp. xxv, 
156. 



1 68 Appendices. 



2132. EXPLOSIFS MODEENES. Paul F. Chalon. A prac- 
tical and theoretical treatise on modern explosives, and 
dictionary of gunpowder and explosive substances. 
An exhaustive work. Bernard & Oie, Paris, 1889 ; n.e., 
507 pp., illustrations. 

2133. -SuR LA FORCE DE MATIERES EXPLOSIVES. M. 
Berthelot. The standard work on the thermal dynamics 
of explosives. Gauthier Villars, Paris. Third edition, 
1883, 2 vols. 8vo, 405 and 445 pp. (See No. 2121.) 

2134. RAUCH FREIE PULVER. An anonymous pamphlet 
of 32 pp., published by R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin, 1889. 
8vo. 

2135. GEPRESSTE SCHIESSWOLLE. Franz Plach. An ex- 
haustive monograph of the use of pressed gun-cotton, 
more particularly with reference to torpedoes and 
submarine mining. Pola, 18.91. 4to, 133 pp., 24 
illustrations. 

2136. VOCABOLARIO Di POLVERI ED EsPLOsivi. Ferdi- 
nando Salvati. A complete work on modern explosives, 
giving the composition of almost every known variety. 
Reprinted from the Revista Maritima. 



AMMUNITION, GUN WOUNDS, ETC. 

2140. BORES AND LOADS FOR SPORTING GUNS. W. A. 
Adams. This is a short treatise on calibres and loads 
for various guns for British game shooting. H. Cox, 
1894. Foolscap 8vo, limp cloth, Qd. 

2141. TABLES OF LOADS. " Purple Heather" A pamphlet 
on the qualities of various loads for game shooting, 
more particularly with reference to the size of shot. 
Alexander & Shepheard, London, 1893. 8vo, paper. 



Ammunition, Gun Wounds, etc. 169 

2142. TABLE OF LOADS for shoulder guns of all sizes, 
chokes and cylinders, and for punt guns. Leivis 
Clement. Field Office, 1880. Oblong 16mo, Qd. ; 
n.e., 1881 (?), Shooting Times Office. 

2143. PROJECTILES, WEAPONS OF WAR, and explosive 
compounds. J. Scoffern, M.B. Treats of new weapons, 
rifled ordnance, Armstrong's breechloading cannon, etc. 
Longmans, London, 1859. 8vo, 376 pp., illustrated. 

2144. RIFLE AMMUNITION. Captain Hawes. Mitchell, 
1859. 8vo, 14s. 

2145. TREATISE ON AMMUNITION. Official. A service 
handbook to ammunition of all kinds. Harrison & Sons, 
etc., 1892. Fifth edition. Svo, 582 pp., 6s. 

2146. CARTOUCHES METALLIQUES. An account of the 
metallic cartridges in use for war purposes. St. Peters- 
burg, 1872. In Svo. 

2147. NOTIONS SUE LE MATERIEL : ET LES MUNITIONS. 
(Official.) Imp. Nat., Paris, 1889 ; 2nd edition, 1891, 
1 fr. 50 c. 

2148. PATRONEN. Mattenheimer. Illustrated with two 
lithographs and a coloured copper-plate engraving. 
Vienna, 1868. 

2151. BOOKE OF OBSERVATIONS. W.Clowes. " A profitable 
and necessarie tretise for all those that are burned 
with the flame of Gunpowder, and also for curing of 
wounds made with musket and caliver shot." E. 
Bollifant (for T. Dawson), London, 1596. 4to. 

2152. SPAGERICKE ANTIDOTARIE FOR GUNNE SHOT. P. A. T. 
Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). A collection of 
114 cases of treatment. London, 1596. 4to. 

2153. ACCIDENTS. G. Piobert. Sur les moyens de dimi- 
nuer les dangers des explosions de la poudre. This 
consists of extracts from a paper read before the 
Academie des Sciences of " New Experiences of the 
Inflammation and Combustion of Powder." Bachelier, 
Paris, 1840. 4to, pamphlet, 12 pp. 



170 Appendices. 



2154. MMOIRES SUE LES POUDRES DE GUERRE. G. Piobert. 
This is a resume of comparative trials of powders made 
by different processes in 1831-2 and 1836-7. Bachelier, 
Paris. 8vo, 96 pp., folding tables. 

2155. LES MILITAIRES BLESSES. C. de Reincourt. A 
history of the wounded and their treatment, and par- 
ticularly of pensions and pensioners in France and 
abroad. Paris, 1875. 8vo, 2 vols. 



TECHNICAL PAPERS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES, 
AND NEWSPAPER REFERENCES. 

2201. GUNPOWDER. Gentleman's Magazine. Invention of, 
x. 95 (1740) ; trial of, x. 315 ; mills blown up, xii. 49 ; 
of different strength, xviii. 165; accidents, xviii. 404; 
in rockets, xviii. 597 ; inwardly fatal, xix. 19 ; explosion 
at Ostend, xxiv. 480 ; at Moulsey, xxiv. 481 ; Duhamel 
on, xxiv. 491 ; experiments on, xxiv. 492 ; discovery 
to increase force of, xxv. 161 ; shipped to West Indies, 
xxv. 280 ; experiments on, xxv. 552 ; inflammation in 
firearms not instantaneous, ibid. ; machine for proving, 
ibid. ; proper charges for camion, xxv. 553 ; what 
charge has greatest effect, ibid. ; exportation prohibited, 
xxv. 570; prohibition continued, xxviii. 191, 449; 
xxx. 488 ; fired at Morpeth, xxviii. 448 : explosion, 
xxix. 391 ; against exportation, xxxi. 233 ; explosion 
at Worcester, xxxii. 386 ; machines for testing, xxxiii. 
73 ; prohibition removed, ibid., 144 ; fired by ice, 
xxxiii. 94 ; experiments, xxxiii. 630 ; importers' trial, 
xxxvi. 197; accidents, xxxvii. 92, 142, 381, 560; 
Hounslow mills blown up, xlii. 41 ; explosion, xliii. 
246; not to be exported, xliii. 578; explosion at 
Abbeville magazine, xliii. 580, 619 ; accident prevented, 
xliv. 40; exportation prohibited, xlv. 405; taken 
out of Dutch man-o'-war, ibid. ; Carthagena magazine 



Technical Papers, Magazine Articles, etc. 171 

blown up, xlv. 601 ; prohibited, xlvi. 93 ; force of 
mixed, xlix. 310; debate on in Admiral Barrington's 
fleet, 1. 303 ; Strachey's account of, ibid., 309 ; an 
improvement in manufacture, Iv. 916 ; introduction 
into Russia, Ivii. 392 ; Irish mills blown up, Ivii. 446 ; 
put in tobacco pipe is fatal, Ivii. 644 ; Battle mill 
blown up, Ivii. 1189 ; Ixxviii. 360 ; accidentally dis- 
covered, Iviii. 1041 ; Faversham mill blown up, lix. 
950; inqiiiries about, Ixi. 885; invention of, Ixii. 517; 
ivory-flask, Ixii. 981, 1191 ; mill at Constantinople, 
Ixv. 155 : accident, Ixvii. 976 ; force of, Ixviii. 501 ; 
known in feudal times, Ixx. 115 (1800); improved 
way of preparing, Ixxiii. 272 ; explosion at Leyden, 
Ixxviii. 77 ; at Cheam, ibid. ; in London. Ixxviii. 80 ; 
disaster, Ixxx. (2), 186 ; explosion, Ixxx. (2), 279 ; uses 
of, Ixxxii. (1), 40; explosion of, Ixxxiii. (2), 422, 695 
(1818). 

2202. EXPLOSIVES. Transactions and Journal of the 
Society of Arts. Substitutes for gunpowder, Abel, xx. 
632 ; Pellet powder, xvi. 374 ; Schultze, xvii. 216, 
289 ; Neumeyer's, xiv. 751, 768 ; Blast of gunpowder, 
xix. 215; Explosion, xxxvii. 161; Gun-cotton, Austrian 
reports on, xi. 715; xiv. 47, 585, 724; Present 
knowledge of, xii. 357, 686 ; Gun-cotton, xix. 300 ; 
Curious property of, xiv. 330 ; Punshon's trial, xx. 
186, 427; Mackie's, xxiii. 227; Modern history of 
gunpowder, xxvii. 437 ; New kind of gunpowder, xxi. 
19 ; Improvements in gun-cotton, xxi. 470, 535 ; 
Bering on explosives, xxxvii. 52 ; Cartridges, Coffin's 
filling machine, xlv. 106 ; Jenner's shot cartridge, 
xliv. 88 ; Percussion caps, xii. 486 ; Ammunition, xviii. 
931. 

2203. EXPLOSIVES. Journal United Service Institution. 
Gun-cotton, Lieut. A. Walker, 1864, viii. 396 ; Gun- 
cotton cartridges, J. Latham, 1866, x. 328; Gale's 
plan of rendering gunpowder non-explosive and re- 
explosive, W. Saunders, 1866, x. 123 ; Norton's 
percussion grenade for house defence, Capt. J. 



1 72 Appendices. 



Norton, 1866, x. 289 ; Gun-cotton and explosive 
agents, F. A. Abel, 1862, vi. 129; Gun-cotton, some 
new points in the application of, F. A. Abel, 1864, 
viii. 345 ; Gunpowder as a disruptive agent, Capt. H. 
Schaw, 1858, ii. 269 ; Explosives as substitutes for 
gunpowder, F. A. Abel, 1872, xvi. 457; Explosive 
force of gunpowder, J. P. Morgan, 1871, xv. 312; 
Schultze's granulated wood powder, J. D. Dougall, 1868, 
xii. 127 ; Special features in large and small grain 
gunpowders, J. P. Morgan, 1876, xx. 195; Cotton 
powder for military purposes, S. J. Mackie, 1877, xxi. 
887 ; Recent inventions in gunpowder and other ex- 
plosives, W. H. Deriny, 1888, xxxiii. 603; Experiments 
with smokeless gunpowder, Gruson, c. 89, W. G. 
Wickson, 1890, xxxiv. 1069 ; Modern gunpowder as a 
propellent, Major Barker, 1890, xxxiv. 257; French 
small-arm smokeless powder (translation), 1893, 
xxxvii. 487. 

2204. CARTRIDGES AND PROJECTILES. Journal of the United 
Service Institution. New metallic cartridge for military 
purposes, Dr. J. Millar, 1866, x. 141 ; Gun-cotton 
cartridges, J. Latham, 1866. x. 328; Norton's rifle 
projectiles, Capt. Norton, 1858, ii. 338 ; Rifled pro- 
jectile for smooth-bore artillery, Capt. J. H. Selwyn, 
1866, x. 393; Cartridges for small arms, Capt. O'Hea, 
1868, xii. 48, 105 ; Explosive bullets and their ap- 
plication to military purposes, G. V. Fosbery, 1868, xii. 
48, 16 ; Modern rifle bullets and their effects, C. H. 
Godwin, 1892, xxxvi. 463. 

2205. EXPLOSIVES. Recent developments and applications 
of explosives. V. D. Majendie. Transactions Royal 
Artillery Institution, xviii. 223 (1890). 

2206. GUNMAKERS. Gentleman's Magazine. Gunrnakers' 
trial, xvii. 101. The introduction of the firearms 
industry into Birmingham. Gentleman's Magazine. 
New Series, February 1869. 



Technical Papers, Magazine Articles, etc. 173 

2207. FIREARMS. Gentleman's Magazine. Why not 
carried by civil officers, vii. 806 (1737) ; practice 
recommended, xv. 596 (1745); improvement in, xlvi. 
575 ; gradual progression of, Iviii. 667 ; use in reign 
of Elizabeth, ibid. ; firelock, Iviii. 668. Of new metal, 
xix. 475 (1749); experiments, xxiii. 389; newly in- 
vented carriages for, xxiii. 390, 391 ; go off through 
touch-hole, xxiv. 445 ; from wreck of Edgar, xxv. 
280 ; inscription upon gun at Dover, xxxvii. 499 ; 
Desagulier's improvements, xliii. 460; gun bursts, 
xliii. 517; first used in Spain by Moors, xlvii. 186; 
tax on proposed, Ixv. 119; gun accident, Ixvii. 610; 
penalty proposed for keeping a loaded one in a house, 
Ixviii. 767 ; on the use of rifle barrel, Ixxix. 937 ; 
remarkable one at Agra, lxxxviii.i(2), 171. 

2208. FIREARMS. Transactions of the Society of Arts, 
These records date from 1783 ; after 1853 the references 
made are to the Journal of the Society. Baker's 
improvements, xxviii. 199; Warner's Safety, 1. 71; 
Damascus iron, xliii. 105; 1. (part ii.), 106; Hall's 
gun-lock, xxxvi. 80 ; Baker's screw for regulating 
mainspring, xl. 118; Dickenson's gun-lock, xliii. 125. 
Subsequent to 1852 : Wilkinson's, i. 121, 141 ; ii. 601 ; 
rifle barrels, i. 122; Hawksworth's, ix. 600; Eifle 
shooting, ix. 474, 505, 519, 599, 600; Rifled ordnance, 
vii. 613; Rocket guns, vii. 342; Arms, xviii. 770; 
Revolving arms, Kerr's, ix. 7 ; Rifles, xxi. 489, 494, 
532 ; Breechloading arms, xv. 400 ; Rifles, xviii. 931 ; 
Mackay's, xii. 359 ; Centrifugal, xv. 426 ; New gun, 
xix. 44, 423 ; Chassepot, xv. 184 ; American, xii. 34. 

2209. GUNNERY AND MISCELLANEOUS. Society of Arts 
Transactions and Journal. Depressing guns, xxix. 
91 ; Lady Bentham on gunnery, Journal, ii. 807 ; 
iii. 157, 643 ; iv. 41 ; Whitworth's system, xviii. 143 ; 
Gun-making by machinery, Journal, xix. 423 ; Museum 
of firearms at Birmingham, xxii. 953; Bullet mould, 
xxxix. 101 ; Cartouch box, xxxvii. 79 ; Firing cannon, 
xxxi. 211. 



174 Appendices. 



2210. FIREARMS. Journal of the United Service Institution. 
Breechloaders for the army, with addendum on gun- 
cotton, Lieut. A. Walker, 1864, viii. 396; Early 
breechloaders, J. Latham, 1865, ix. 88; Breechloading, 
Montstorm's system, F. A. Braendlin, 1864, viii. 280; 
Carbine and pistol, Lieut. A. Steinmetz, 1861, v. 454; 
Davidson's telescopic rifle-sight, Lieut. Davidson, 1864, 
viii. 426; Errors of the rifle, Capt. Arbuckle, 1864, 
viii. 158; Gun-locks, their history, R. Pritchett, 1859, 
iii. 307; Arms of precision, Capt. Schaw, 1870, xiv. 
59, 377 ; Arms of precision and cavalry, Major-Gen. 
Smith, xii. 49, 147 ; Progress of breechloading small 
arms, J. Latham, 1875, xix. 83, 631 ; Military 
breechloading small arms, V. D. Majendie, 1867, 
xi. 44, 190 ; Rifles and rifling, J. B. O'Hea, 1873, 
xvii. 72, 356 ; Rifles of France, Prussia and England, 
Mervin Drake, 1871, xv. 64, 438; Russell's electric 
guns and ammunition, Major Seyton, 1886, xix. 134, 
541 ; Remington-Lee rifle, Major Armstrong, 1886, 
xxx. 529; Magazine rifles, G. V. Fosbery, 1882, 
xxvi. 456 ; Ibid., 1883, xxvii. 777 ; Repeating rifles, 
J. Walter, 1878, xxii. 1090; Repeating rifle question, 
J. Walter, 1880, xxiv. 778; Magazine and repeating 
rifles, Capt. W. James, 1887, xxi. 135 ; Modern 
military rifles and firelocks, Col. Slade, 1888, xxii. 
899 ; Martini magazine repeating rifles, Major 
Sarston, 1889, xxxiii. 39 ; Repeating rifles in war, 
T. A. Marsh, 1891, xxxv. 1167; Military small arms, 
G. V. Fosbery, 1891, xxxv. 707 ; Magazine refrigera- 
tion (translation), 1892, xxxvi. 1323; Magazine rifles, 
their latest development and effects, Capt. W. H. James, 
1892, xxxvi. 931 ; The Mannlicher 6'5 mm. rifle 
(translation), J. Fraenkel, 1893, xxxvii. 291. 

2211. RIFLE. Journal of the United Service Institution. 
Its influence on modern warfare, Lieut.-Col. Dixon, 
1857, i. 95; Necessity for its introduction as a 
universal infantry weapon, Lieut.-Col. Welford, 1857, 
i. 238; Rifle and rampart, Capt. Tyler, 1860, iv. 



Technical Papers, Magazine Articles, etc. 175 

331; Kifle and spade, Capt. Tyler, 1859, iii. 170; 
Modern effect of on .siege operations, Capt. Tyler, 
1858, ii. 225 ; On the improvement of the rifle as 
a weapon for general use, Lieut.-Col. Lane-Fox, 1858, 
ii. 453 ; Rifles and rifle trajectories, Lieut. A. Walker, 
1862, vi. 436; The Mannlicher rifle, 6 - 5 mm. calibre, 
J. Fraenkel (a translation), xxxvii. 291. 

2212. BALLISTICS. Journal of the United Service Institu- 
tion. Minie expansion system, J. Boucher, 1858, ii. 
144 ; Parabolic theory of projection for ranges in 
vacuo, Lieut.-Col. Fox, 1861, v. 497; Flight of pro- 
jectiles, with a description of an instrument taken to 
show the trajectory of a ball from a given elevation 
and range, together with the initial velocity and force 
of striking, Major-Gen. Anstruther, 1865, ix. 472 ; 
Swiss targets and rifle ranges, J. Latham, 1861, 
v. 110; Trajectories, Lieut. Walker, 1862, vi. 436; 
Trajectory of balls, Major-Gen. Anstruther, 1861, v. 
309 ; Revolution in gunnery and science, Lieut.-Col. 
Hope, 1885, xxviii. 127, 965 ; Photography of flying 
bullets, C. V. Boys, 1893, xxxvii. 855. 

2213. MISCELLANEOUS. Journal of the United Service 
Institution. Sight : On certain conditions of sight 
which affect accurate shooting, Litton Forbes, 1882, 
xxvi. 811 ; Safety rifle ranges, Major Hurst, 1889, 
xxxi. 413 ; Range finding, Lieut. White, 1890, xxxiv. 
279. 

2214. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
Miscellaneous Papers and References. Experiments in 
fire of infantry, 1839, vol. i., p. 23 ; The science of 
gunnery and force of gunpowder, Capt. Boxer, 1854, 
vol. i., p. 275 ; Velocity tables, Capt. NoUe, 1862, 
vol. ii., p. 11 ; Belgian experiments on the proof of 
gunpowder, Lieut.-Col. Younghusband, 1858, vol. iii., 
p. 110 ; Austrian report on gun-cotton, vol. iii., 
p. 114; Report on Lenk's gun-cotton, vol. iii., p. 367 ; 
Gun-cotton, Major Miller, vol. iv., p. 65 ; Phenomena 



176 Appendices. 



of gun-cotton, F. A. Abel, vol. iv., p. 127 ; Causes of 
deviation unconnected with rifling, Lieut. W. F. 
Richardson, vol. iv., p. 455 ; Ancient cannon in Europe, 
H. jBrackenbury,vo\. iv., p. 287 ; vol. v., p. 1 ; Military 
breechloading rifles and their ammunition, Capt. R. 
Haig, vol. v., p. 240 ; Boxer ammunition for Snider 
rifle, C. 0. Browne, vol. v., p. 261 ; Ballistic experi- 
ments by the Ordnance Survey Committee, vol. vi., 
p. 9 ; Proof of gunpowder at Waltham, vol. vii., p. 50 ; 
English guns and foreign critics, F. D. Majendie, 
vol. vii., p. 90 ; Merits of large bores and small bores 
with reference to artillery and small arms, J. Sladen, 
vol. vii., p. 273 ; Tables of remaining velocities, 
F. Bashforth, vol. vii., p. 367, vol. viii., p. 1 ; Notes on 
ditto, vol. xii., pp. 64, 516 ; Explosive force of gun- 
powder, /. P. Morgan, vol. vii., p. 413; Bavarian 
revolver cannon, E. Baring, vol. viii., p. 28 ; Flat 
trajectories, small arms, /. Sladen, vol. viii., p. 74 ; 
Many-barrelled rifle batteries, or mitrailleurs, J. F. 
Owen, vol. viii., p. 419 ; Pebble powder, J. P. Morgan, 
vol. ix., p. 87 ; Motion of projectiles, E. Kensington, 
vol. ix., p. 159; List of gunpowder explosions, F. D. 
Majendie, vol. ix., p. 246 ; Accidental explosions, 
F. A. Abel, vol. ix., p. 259 ; Service small arms, 
manufacture and repair, F. S. Stoney, vol. ix., p. 303 ; 
Application of Prof. Bashforth's general tables to 
problems in practical gunnery, /. Sladen, vol. ix., 
p. 320 ; On the rotation required for the stability of 
an elongated projectile, A. G. Greenhill, vol. x., p. 577, 
vol. xi., pp. 103, 119, 124, 131, vol. xii., p. 17; 
Shooting properties of small arms in use in Europe, 
A. Indra (translation), vol. xi., p. 1 ; Improved shape 
for moulding gunpowder, M. Tweedie, vol. xi., p. 467 ; 
Extracts from Russian Small Arms Magazine, vol. xi., 
p. 603 ; Experiments with small shot, W. McClintock, 
vol. xii., p. 332 ; Problems in gunnery, W. McClintock, 
vol. xii., p. 351 ; Notes on gun," " gyn," and " pillet," 
vol. xii., p. 499 ; Wild-fowl and punt guns, W. 
McClintock, vol. xii., p. 555 ; Rifles for large game, 



Technical Papers, Magazine Articles, etc. 177 

W. McClintock, vol. xii. p. 569 ; Military rifles, 

vol. xii., p. 578 ; Gunpowder works in Bengal, F. W. 

Stubbs, vol. xiii., p. 1 ; Calculation of trajectories, 

vol. xiii., p. 53, vol. xiv., p. 373, vol. xv., pp. 81 

523, 597, vol. xvii., pp. 81, 181, 389; Visit to Spanish 

gun factories, vol. xiii., p. 204 ; Revolvers, W 

McClintock, vol. xii., p. 211 ; A good shot, H. H. 

Maxwell, vol. xiv., p. 84 ; Explosives, J. P. Cundill, 

vol. xiv., p. 141 ; Picric powders, W. H. H. Waters, 

vol. xv., p. 293 ; Dictionary of explosives, J. P. 

CtmdMU, vol. xv., p. 541, vol. xiii., pp. 25, etc. ; Small 

arms v. Machine guns, J. T. Rowan, vol. xiii., p. 31 ; 

On vertical drift of elongated projectiles, Bashforth, 

vol. xvii., p. 33 ; Recent developments of explosives, 

V. D. Majendie, vol. xviii., p. 223 ; Berthier rifle, 

W. B. Hemans, vol. xviii., p. 511 ; On the motion of 

elongated projectiles, G. T. Walker, vol. xviii., p. 187 ; 

Velocities, H. A. Bethell, vol. xviii., p. 423 ; Soldiering 

and sport in Mashonaland, vol. xx., p. 69 ; Gunpowder 

and cordite, F. W. J. Barker, vol. xx., p. 269. 



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SELECTED BOOKS ON OLD ARMS, FOREIGN 

ARMS, ETC. 

2301. ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR. E. J. Brett. A 
pictorial and descriptive record of the origin and 
development of Arms and Armour. This is a com- 
prehensive work, embodying the results of much 
research, and well illustrated with specially drawn 
plates from the author's own fine collection. It is the 
fullest and most recently written work on the subject 
of which it treats. Sampson Low & Co., London, 1894. 
Imperial 4to, 650 pp., 133 plates, with about 1200 
illustrations. 5 5s. 

2302. ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPE to end 
of XVII. century. John Hewitt. An account of 
Arms and Armour in the Royal Armoury, with supple- 
ment. Oxford and London, 1855-60. 8vo. 3 vols. 

2303. A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANTIENT ARMOUR, as it 
existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from 
the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. 
Illustrated with a series of illuminated engravings, 
with a glossary of military terms of the Middle Ages. 
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. Jennings, London. 2nd 
edition. 3 vols. 1842. 

2304. ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OP ANCIENT ARMS AND 
ARMOUR from the collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, Esq., 
at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire ; after the drawings 
and with the descriptions of Dr. Meyrick. Joseph 
Skelton. Gives in the preface an explanation of the 
difficulties which attended the production of the 
" Critical Inquiry," and the fact that " three succes- 
sive proprietors became bankrupt before the whole 

178 



Selected Books on Old Arms,, etc. 179 

work was in the hands of the actual publisher " as 
the reason for producing this work ; " which is the 
more accurate in detail and of greater value to the 
antiquary." Printed by G. Schultze, London, for 
theauthor, 1830. Folio, 2 vols., 130 plates. 

2305. WEAPONS OF THE ANCIENTS. John R. Williams. 
"An essay on Defensive and Offensive Weapons and 
Engines of the Ancients and of the Middle Ages, their 
relation to the Constitution and Handling of Armies, 
and their effect upon the Art of War." Printed at 
the Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1886. 
4to, 28 pp. 

2306. EVOLUTION OF ARMS AND ARMOUR. J. G. Kimball. 
J. H. West, New York, 1890. 10 cents. 

2307. ARMS AND ARMOUR. C. Boutell. (Translated from 
M. P. Lacombe.) This is a description of weapons and 
armour in antiquity and the middle ages, with a de- 
scriptive notice of modern weapons. A popular work, 
well illustrated. Cassell, London, 1859. 8vo, 296 pp., 
70 woodcuts. 

2308. ARMS AND ARMOUR. Auguste Demmin. A popular 
illustrated history of weapons and armour from the 
earliest period to 1870 ; it was translated by Mr. T. C. 
Black, of the South Kensington Museum, and is per- 
haps the most useful and comprehensive of all publi- 
cations as an introductory text-book to Arms and 
Armour. G. Bell & Sons, London, 1877. Svo, 596 pp., 
200 illustrations. 

2309. RESUMEN SACADO, ETC. D. Ig. Abadia. An ac- 
count of the arms, etc., in the Royal Armoury, Madrid. 
Madrid, 1793. 1 vol., Svo. 

2310. SCHIOPPI NELL' ANNO 1347. Luigi Cibrario. An 
article on early artillery, taken from vol. vi. of the 
" Memoirs of the Academy of Science," and a second 
edition, with the title of " Delle Artiglierie dal MCCC 
al MDCC," was published in 1851. Royal Press, Turin, 
1844. In 8vo. 



1 80 Appendices. 



2311. QUELLEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DBS FEUER WAFFEN. This 

is a series of reproductions of original drawings of 
weapons, etc., in the German museums, to serve as a 
source for a history of firearms. Leipzig, 1872. 4to. 

2312. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT FIREARMS. In the 
Archaeological Album ; or Museum of National An- 
tiquities, by T. Wright. Illustrations by F. W. Fairholt, 
pp. 121-128. London, 1845. Museo Espanol Antigiie- 
dades, J. G. Dorregaray. Vol. V., pp. 9, 123, Madrid, 
1875. Guns and Pistols of XVIth Century, Munitoli, 
Vorbilder, etc. Vol. i. Portfolio 82, Art Lib. S. K. 
Mus. Musee de FArtillerie de Paris. Portfolio 366, 
Art Lib. S. K. Mus. Old German Gunstocks. 1600- 
1628, from Augsburg, now in the Imperial Armoury, 
Vienna. See Portfolio 225, Art Lib. S. K. Mus. 
History of Hand Firearms. S. R. Meyrick, "Archseo- 
logia." Vol. xxii., 1829. 

2313. REPORTS ON MODERN ARMS, Collections, Exhibi- 
tions, etc. Arabian firearms, photographs of arms in 
the Real Armeria, Turin. Portfolio 377, Art Lib. 
S. K. Mus. London Exhibition, report of the French 
Jury, vol. iv., Paris, 1862. Indian Firearms at the 
Madras Exhibition, see Portfolio 34 at the Art Lib. 
S. K. Mus. Paris Exhibition, 1867, see Capt. V. 
Majendie's report. London, 1868. Vol. iv. Italian, 
Milan Industrial Museum, reproductions, Portfolio 559, 
Art Lib. S. K. Mus. Report on Military and Sporting 
Arms and Weapons at the Philadelphia Exhibition, 
1876, by Maj. W. H. Noble. London, 1877. Report 
on Small Arms at Vienna Exhibition, by W. H. 
Russell. London, 1874. Reports, vol. ii. 



CATALOGUES OF COLLECTIONS OF ANCIENT 

ARMS. 

2351. AEMERIA ANTICA E MODERNA del Re Carlo Alberto. 
Fontana, Turin, 1846. In 8vo. 

2352. CATALOGO DE LA REAL ARMERIADE MADRID. Aguado, 
Madrid, 1849. 1 vol. 4to, plates. A second edition, 
1863, in Svo. 

2353. CATALOGO DE LOS OBJETOS QUI CONTIENE EL REAL 
MUSEAR MILITAR. Tejado, Madrid, 1856. 1 vol., 
393 pp. 

2354. MUS&B D'ARTILLERIE,PARIS. 0. Penguilly E Haridon. 
Catalogue of the best French collection of firearms. 
This catalogue is now superseded, and is valuable only 
for its notes. Mourgues freres, Paris, 1862. 1004 pp., 
paper. 5 francs. 

2355. Musfis D'ARTILLERIE EN 1889. L. Robert. Volume 
IV. contains particulars of the small arms; and, in 
addition to giving details of 2448 arms and accessories 
in the collection, has useful historical notices, some 
notes and references. Imp. Nat., Paris, 1893, vol. iv. 
Svo, 403 pp., paper. 1| francs. 

2356. ARMES ET ARMURES. E. van Vinkeroy. Catalogue 
of the Museum at La Porte de Hal, Bruxelles. The 
collection is but the debris left by or recovered from 
the successive conquerors of the Netherlands. The 
original collection dates back to the fifteenth century, 
when A. de Bourgogne commenced the collection after- 
wards known as the " Royal Arsenal," and which was 
for the last time most seriously despoiled by the 
Austrians on their evacuation in 1794. The pi-esent 
collection has been got together since 1835, and is 

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constantly being added to. Lelong, Brussels, 1885. 
8vo, 498 pp., woodcuts, paper. 3 francs. 

2357. AETILLEEISKAVO MUSEA. N. E. Brandenburg. Cata- 
logue of the Arms collection in the Artillery Museum 
of the St. Petersburg Arsenal. The collection is a 
rich one, particularly in breech-loading cannon of early 
dates, revolving arms, etc. Part I, has interesting 
historical notes, and deals with arms dating prior to 
1809. Bokrama, St. Petersburg, 1877. Large 8vo r 
woodcuts, 314 pp., paper. 

2358. DRESDEN, GEWEHR GALLERIE. F. Nollain and 
Carl Clauss. An intelligently compiled, illustrated 
catalogue of a very fine collection, which is particularly 
rich in ornamented arms and seventeenth-century 
wheel-locks. H. Schonfeld, Dresden, 1873. Svo, 164 pp., 
18 fine woodcuts, paper boards. 

2359. ARMERIA. Vittorio Seyssel d'Aix. A description of 
the antique and modern arms in the collection of 
S. M. Carlo Alberto, the Turin Armoury. 1554 
articles enumerated. The historical notes are scanty 
and too anecdotal. Fontana, Turin, 1840. Large 
Svo, 452 pp., 3 folding lithographic sheets of drawings, 
some inferior woodcuts, stiff picture boards. Second 
edition, 1846. 

2360. OROUJENAIA PALATA. Catalogue of the Royal 
Armoury in the Kremlin, Moscow. French editions 
also published. Mamontoff, Moscow, 1882. 8vo 
pamphlet, 42 pp. 

2361. ROYAL ARMOURY, WINDSOR CASTLE. The Turkish 
firearms in this collection will be found illustrated in 
Portfolio 2, at the Art Library, South Kensington. 

2362. SOUTH KENSINGTON COLLECTION. Catalogue of the 
munitions of (war in the S. K. Museum, London. Svo. 
1875. 



Catalogues of Collections of Ancient Arms. 183 

2363. SOUTH KENSINGTON COLLECTION. A collection of 
photographs from specimens in the Museum, selected 
by J. C. Robinson. Portfolio 113, at the Art Lib., 
South Kensington. 

2364. SOUTH KENSINGTON. Catalogue of the -wheel-lock 
guns, etc., in the loan collection, 1862. London, 1862. 
8vo, pp. 364. 

2365. AMBRASER COLLECTION, VIENNA. The firearms in 
this collection are illustrated in a series contained in 
Portfolio 210, at the Art Library, South Kensington. 

2366. NURNBERG COLLECTION. Illustrations of the fire- 
arms in this collection will be found in Portfolio 250, 
at the Art Library, South Kensington. 

2367. HAMMER MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM. The firearms of 
this collection will be found illustrated in Portfolio 
499, at the Art Library, South Kensington. 

2368. OFFICIAL CATALOGUE of the Tower Armouries. 
John Hewitt. London, 1859. 12mo. 

2369. TSARSKOE ZELOE. Baumann, St. Petersburg, 1860. 
A supplement thereto, 188 . 



BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

SPORTING MILITARY ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND 
TECHNICAL DICTIONARIES. 

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TICOEUM. G. G. Kreysig. Altenburg, 1750. 8vo, 
190 pp., 18 folio tables. 

2402. SPORTING : GERMAN. LITERARISCHEN Erscheinungen 
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2403. SPORTING : FRENCH. BIBLIOGRAPHIE GNRALE DBS 
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2404. SPORTING : FRENCH. QUELSQUES ADDITIONS, etc., to 
the above work. Paul Petit. Contains also numerous 
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"Biblioteca Venatoria." Tello, Madrid, 1877. Svo, 
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2407. BIBLIOTHECA HiSTORico-MiLiTARis. Johann Pokier. 
A work which is to comprehend the books on every 
war and in every tongue to the year 1880. The 16th 
volume will contain a bibliography of artillery, etc. 
Cassel (Germany), 1886, etc. Svo. In progress. 

2408. MILITARY : GERMAN. ALLGEMEINE LITERATUR DER 
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A very complete work, arranged alphabetically ac- 
cording to authors, but furnished with indices to 
subjects. Madrid, 1876. 4to, 98S pp. 

2410. BIBLIOGRAFIA MILITARE : ITALIANA. Al. D'Ayala. 
A complete book ; the third edition, " Artigliera," is 
the one of chief interest, about 32 pp. of the book of 
450 pp. Royal Press, Turin, 1854. Demy Svo, 450 pp. 

2411. MILITARY: ENGLISH. List of Works on Ai-tillery, 
etc. J. II. Lefroy. This list is given in 12 pp., Vol. II., 
of the " Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution." 

2412. MILITARY : ENGLISH. Some old and rare books in 
the Library of the Royal Artillery Association. Not 
all devoted to military subjects. See " Proceedings of 
the R. A. Inst.," Vol. xv., p. 37. 

2413. MILITARY: ENGLISH. A list of 81 books on 
Artillery, etc., taken from the Catalogue of the Pai-is 
Exhibition, 1S89. " Proceedings of the R, A. Inst.," 
vol. xvii., p. 509. 



186 Appendices. 



2414. ANCIENT ARMS: ENGLISH. CATALOGUE OP BOOKS 
AND PHOTOGRAPHS in the National Art Library, illus- 
trating Armour and Weapons. Compiled for the use 
of students and visitors to the South Kensington 
Museum Library. London, 1883. 8vo, 68 pp., Qd. 

2415. MILITARY DICTIONARY; comprising terms, scientific 
and otherwise, connected with the science of War. 
Compiled by Ma j. -Gen. G. E. Voyle, assisted by Captain 
G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson. This work appeared 
originally as a " Dictionary of Artillery and other 
Military and Scientific Terms," and was published by 
Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. The third edition, 
the first under this title, by W. Clowes, London, 1876. 
8vo, 582 pp., and 38 pp. supplement. 

2416. MILITARY DICTIONARY; comprising technical de- 
finitions, information on raising and keeping troops ; 
actual service, including makeshifts and improved 
materiel, and law, government, regulation, and ad- 
ministration relating to land forces. Col. H. L. Scott. 
This is an illustrated encyclopaedia. D. Yan Nostrand, 
New York, 1861. 8vo, 674 pp., woodcuts. 

2417. MILITARY DICTIONARY AND GAZETTEER. Thomas 
Wilhelm. Comprises " Ancient and modern military 
technical terms, historical accounts of all the American 
Indians, as well as ancient warlike tribes ; also notices 
of battles from the earliest period to the present time, 
with a cursive explanation of terms used in heraldry 
and theoffices thereof." The work also gives geographical 
information, and has an appendix containing the articles 
of war. L. R. Hamersly & Co., Philadelphia, 1879. 
Revised edition, 1881. Svo, 660 pp., 32 litho. plates. 

2418. MILITARY ENCYCLOPAEDIA. Dictionary of Military 
Knowledge. E. S. Farrow. A comprehensive work, 
well written, and illustrated with maps, plates, and 
about 3000 woodcuts. Author, 240, Broadway, New 
York, 1885. 4to. Vol. I., A G, 821 pp. ; Vol. II., 



'Sporting Military Encyclopaedias, etc. 1 87 

H E, 832 pp. ; Vol. III., S Z, 668 pp., and plates. 
This work is under constant revision, and supplements 
are issued at irregular intervals. 

. 

2419. ANGLO-FRENCH. An Universal Military Dictionary 
in English and French, in which are explained the 
terms of the principal sciences that are necessary for 
the information of an officer. Charles James, T. Egerton, 
London, 1802. The 4th edition, 1816, is the best. 
8vo, pp. xii, 1006, portrait. 

2420. GERMAN-ENGLISH-FRENCH. Technological Military 
Dictionary. Capt. G. F. Duckett. The German-English- 
French part, 452 pp. 

2421. FRENCH-GERMAN-ENGLISH-RUSSIAN. Military Tech- 
nological Dictionary. And. Engel. St. Petersburg, 
1863. First part, A C, 424 pp. The book is scarce, 
and has been long out of print. 

2422. RUSSO-GERMAN. Military Technological Dictionary. 
J. S. Kuznetsovi. Devrient, St. Petersburg, 1872. 
8vo, 452 pp., with supplementary appendix, 44 pp. 

2423. FRANCO-GERMAN. Kriegs-Ingenieur-Artillerie-See- 
und-Ritter Lexicon. Jacob von Eggers. This is a 
glossary of technical and military terms in French, with 
German equivalents, and vice versa. G. 0. Walther, 
Dresden and Leipzig, 1757. 8vo, Vol. I., 1420 columns, 
710 pp. ; Vol. II., 1420 columns and 28 folding plates. 

2424. FRENCH. Nouveau Dictionnaire Militaire. Com- 
piled by a committee of officers. This is a military 
encyclopaedia, well written, and the information given 
in most succinct form. Text illustrated with 310 
figures. L. Baudoin, Paris, 1892. Svo, 854 pp. 

2425. GERMAN. Handworterbuch der Gesamten Militair- 
wissenschaften. B. Paten. An encyclopaedic military 
technological dictionary, published in nine quarto 



1 88 Appendices. 



volumes, with illustrations. Velhagen & Klasing, 
Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1877-80. 

2426. SPANISH. Diccionario Militair. D. Jose Almirante. 
An etymological, historical, technological, military 
dictionary, with vocabularies of French and German 
technical terms. Dept. of War, Madrid, 1869. 4to, 
1218 pp. 



INDEX. 



Abel, P. A., 2112, 2118. 
Adam, Victor, 519. 
Adams, \V. A., 1293, 2141. 
Afflito, Maria, 173. 
Agrippa, Cornelius, 106. 
Ahadia, Ig., 348, 2309. 
Aikins, Dr. J., 279. 
Aix, V. S. d', 2359. 
Ajello d'Ayalo, 113. 
Alberghetti cle Venezia, S., 212, 

239. 

Albitte, G., 1473. 
Aldington, J., 269. 
Alejo de Paella, 2. 
Alenzo Martinez del Espinar, 165. 
Alhoy, M., 1568, 1569. 
Alison, G. C., 613. 
Alken, H., 428. 
Allich, L., 624, 625. 
Almirante, J., 809. 
Alvarez Perez, J., 1803. 
Amezeuil, C. St., 1406, 1456. 
Ammon, 1625. 
Anderson, Col., 2105. 
Anderson, R., 198, 226. 229, 232. 
Anquetil, T., 1427, 1428. 
Anreo, J. de B., 176. 
Anschutz, H., 663. 
Anstegui y Doz, L., 1806. 
Aparici y Biedma, J. M.. 1807. 
Apperley, C. J., 451, 1216. 
Arcania, J. G., 805. 
Arcy, d', 341. 
Ardesoif, J. P., 272. 
Arellanus. J. M. de, 322. 
Arena, P. A., 704. 
Armiger, C., 436. 



Arts, F., 1820. 

Asher, B., 1435. 

Assolant, A., 1430. 

Atienza y Martinez, D. V., 1808. 

Auban, Marquis de St., 336, 592. 

Aubnsson, M. D', 1439, 1440. 

"Avon," 1295. 

Azais, G., 1434. 

Azzi, Dr. E., 1705. 

Babington, J., 147. 

Bacchi della Lega, A., 1704. 

Bacellar, A. H. de, 801. 

Bada, J. J. D., 1818. 

Baddely, Fraser, 2102. 

Bado, Anreo, 176. 

Bailey, H., 1358. 

Bailey, T., 252. 

Bailly, Bixio, 523. 

Baines, T., 1301. 

Baker, Ez., 451. 

Baker, Sir S. W., 1317, 1323, 1324, 

1348, 1349, 1350, 1351, 1352, 

1353 

Balch, V., 1911. 
Bank, F. J. J., 1656. 
Barber, E. C., 1176. 
Barclay, 1232. 
Barret, E., 1154. 
Barriff, W., 164. 
Barry, W., 1268. 
Bartiett, W. A.. 1018. 
Barwick, H., 28. 
Basedow, A. de, 1655. 
Bashforth, F., 11621168. 
Bate, J., 145. 
Beaufoy, Captain, 411. 



191 



192 



Index. 



Beauvoir, 1546. 
Bellecroix, E., 1403, 1464. 
Benburg, E. A. v., 1653. 
Benifayo, Baron, 1817. 
Benoit-Champy, 1459. 
Bergerat, E., 1437. 
Bermusch, Eobert, 1654. 
Beroaldo-Bianchini, 612. 
Berrieczo, D. J. A., 1802. 
Berthelot, M., 2133. 
Bethuys, G., 1571. 
Bianchini, B., 612. 
Biedma, J. M. A., 1807. 
Bigot de Morogues, 316. 
Biquet, Gen. F., 1510. 
Binet, Etienne, 132. 
Binney, Thomas, 260. 
Birago, F., 138. 
Birnie, R., 1040. 
Bixio Bailly, 523. 
Elaine, D. P., 454. 
Blakely, T. A., 1159. 
Blakey, R., 1009. 
Blanc-St.-Bonnet, Ch. de, 506. 
Blaze, E., 1404. 
Bliss, H. C., 1256. 
Bloxham, W. P., 2115. 
Blunt, S. E., 1180. 
Bocca, D. Mazzo, 9. 
Bceuf, Abbe le, 1463. 
Bogardus, H., 1252. 
Bond, Lt.-Col. H., 1021. 
Boner, C., 1320. 
Bonfadini, V.,153, 175. 
Bonnet, Ch. de Blanc St., 506. 
Sordino, S. M., 701, 703. 
Borer, F. C., 1260. 
Borio, D., 1701. 
Bossi, G., 134, 203. 
Botelho de Oliviera, B., 305. 
Bouchage, Ch. de, 575. 
Boucher, J., 1109. 
Boulen, C., 1468. 
Bourne, William, 20. 
Boussenard, L., 4567. 
Boutell. C., 2307. 
Bowers, G., 1222. 
Brandeis, F., 1641. 



Brandenburg, N. E., 2357. 
Brandock, J., 2103, 2104. 
Brandt, J. D., 1157. 
Braun, 208. 
Brechtel, 43. 
Brett, E. J., 2301. 
Brewin, R., 1114. 
Bridgeman, J. V., 1175. 
Bridges, T. W.. 1156. 
Brinck, T. N., 207. 
Brinckman, A.j 1326. 
Bromley-Davenport, W., 1296. 
Brown, Sir B., 1185. 
Brown, H.. 274. 
Bry, Theo. de, 123. 
Buchiers, 209. 
Buega, D. J., 1812. 
Buet, C., 1436. 
Bulliard, 342. 
Bumstead. J., 1258. 
Bunning, 224. 
Burger, Kaspar, 30. 
Burgess, F. F. R.. 1019. 
Busca, Gabriele, 7. 
Bush, D. M. D., 1805. 
Butler, Sir W. F., 1399. 
Butler, J. S., 1130. 
Buxton, E. F., 1338. 
Buxton, E. N., 13170. 

Campagne, E., 1429, 1442. 
Campbell, E. S. N., 433. 
Campbell, Walter, 465. 
Campion, J. S., 1399rf. 
Capitaine, E., 1601. 
Capobianco, A., 40. 
Carleton, W., 468, 474, 479. 
Carnegie, W., 1233. 
Casimir Simienowicz, 256. 
Cassassoles, F., 1411. 
Castan, F., 2108. 
Castillon, 1425, 1426. 
Cataneo, Girolamo, 14, 15. 
Cerda, T., 168, 332. 
Chalon, P. F., 2132. 
" Cham " (see Noe), 1410 
Championniere. M., 520. 
Champy, B., 1459. 



Index. 



193 



Chapman, J. R.. -177. 
Chapus, E., 1-172. 
Chassaine, J., 1423. 
Chatin de Mezelles, Y., 1416. 
Chaugrain, de, 335. 
Chene, K. dn, 1405. 
Chenu, Dr. J. C.. 1405. 
Cherville, Marquis de. 1454. 
Chevigue, Comte de, 514. 
Chevillard, 180. 
Chevreuil, H. f 1426. 
Chincherni, A., 154. 
Chrestman, W. K., 619. 
" Christopher Idle," 1263. 
Cibrario, L., 2310. 
Clamart. J. A.. 1457. 
Clauss. Care. 2358. 
Clement, Lewis, 1273-75. 2142. 
Cleveland, H. W. S., 1178. 
Cobb, S., 1052. 
Cochard, L.. 1548. 
Codies, J., 804. 
Coehorn, 189, 238. 
Coello y Quesada, J., 1809. 
Colard, E,, 1516. 
Collado, L., 160. 
Colliado, Luigi, 19. 
Colomberini, "G. B., 228. 
Colombina, G. B., 157. 
Colquhoun, J., 455, 1287. 
Colson, 211. 
Congreve, Sir W., 2101. 
Cook. J., 224. 
Cooper, A. W., 1278. 
Coote, Hon. R., 264. 
Corballis, J. H., 1214. 
Cornell, R., 1657. 
Cornelius Agrippa, 106. 
Correa, M., 1810, 1811. 
Cotty, M. H., 503, 505. 
Coudray, T. de, 330. 
Couteur, J. Le, 1103. 
Cox, Nic, 234. 
Cradock, C., 1341. 
Cranach, U. von, 192. 
Cranz. 1628. 

"Craven" (see Carleton), 468, 
474, 479. 



Crealocke, H. H., 1218. 
Crevelli, A., 702. 
Creyke, Mrs. W.. 1201. 
Cross, D. W., 1373. 
Cundill, J. P., 2121, 2123. 
Curel, L. de, 1414. 
Cyprian Lucar, 23. 

Dahne, 1629. 

Dailly, Pierre, 187. 

D'Aix, V. S., 2359. 

Dalloz, 1469. 

D'Amezeuil, C., 1456. 

Danford, G., 1321. 

Daniel, Geo., 1207. 

Daniels, W. B., 404. 

D'Arcy, 341. 

Dastugue. D., 1445, 1446. 

D'Aubusson, M., 1439, 1440. 

Davelcourt, D., 109, 112, 114, 120. 

Davenport, W. B., 1296. 

Dawson, Captain, 139.S. 

Dax, Vcte L. de, 1455. 

D'Ayalo, Santa Ajello, 113. 

Deane, J., 1003. 

De Bada, J. J., 1818. 

De Cherville, 1454, 1563. 

De Curel, L.. 1414. 

De Dax, Vcte L., 1455. 

Deffaux. M., 1465. 

De Feuille, V., 1447. 

De la Court, P., 1460. 

Delaunay, F., 1462. 

Delia Lega, A. B., 1704. 

Delorme, Du Q. A., 1702. 

De Metz-Noblat, A., ] 507. 

Demmin, A., 2308. 

De Mezelles, Y. C., 1416. 

De Riencourt, C.. 2155. 

Desormeaux, M. A. O. P., 1526. 

De Sparre. Vcte, 1525. 

De Viergol, F. M., 1810. 

D'Ewes, J., 1305. 

Deyeux, Theoph.. 516. 

D'Houdetot, A., 1557, 1558. 

" Diane Chasseresse " (we 

Creyke). 
Didion, 1543. 

13 



194 



Index. 



Diego cle Morales, 185. 

Diego Ufano (Anglice Uffans, 

q.v.~), 116, 131. 
Dietrich, Jes., 202. 
Diezel, C., 618. 
Diguet, Ch., 1408, 1413, 1415, 

1451, 1505. 
Ditchfield, 1208. 
Domenico Borio, 1701. 
Donneaud du Plan, 509. 
Douet, 150. 
Dougall, J. D., 1014, 1121, 1253, 

1290. 

Dove, P. E., 1105. 
Doz, L. d. A., 1806. 
"Dragon," 1222. 
Drayson, W. W., 1347. 
Du Chene, Eobert, 1409. 
Du Fretay, Baron H., 1438. 
Dumord, M., 1529, 1534. 
Dupuys, 334. 
Du Quesnay, 1702. 
Durand, M., 129. 
Duriey, T., 200. 
Duro, D. V., 808. 
Duwarnet, G., 1448. 
Duyateff, 1424. 
D'YauviUe, 221. 
Dyke, Th. S. van, 1379, 1392. 

E. J. F. (see F.), 1234. 
Edel, 231. 
Evlie, G., 273. 
Ehrenkreutz, 1651. 
Ehrenswerd, 320. 
Eichenlaub, E., 615. 
Eisenkramer. 204. 
Eisler, M., 2119, 2120. 
Eldrecl, W., 170. 
" Ellangowan," 1292. 
Elliott, R. H., 1344. 
Elorza, D. F. A. de, 806. 
Eloues, D., 1449. 
Elrichs, M. F., 621, 622. 
Elton, R., 172. 
Elzear Blaze, 1404. 
Epichin, 1921. 
Erasrno di Valvasone. 104. 



Escaler, F. T. de 1', 177. 
Espinar, A. M., 163. 
Esteban Guillelmi, D., 809. 
Eugenii, 214. 
Eugenio Gentilini, 31. 
Ewes, J. D', 1305. 

F., E. J., 1234. 

Fairfax, Thos., 223. 

Faulder, 282. 

Faure-Biguet, 1510. 

Fawkes, F., 270. 

Fellows, R. B., 1265. 

Fenton, C. H., 1184. 

Ferro, Alfonso, 10. 

Ferron y Saavedra, J., 1819. 

Ferrufino, J., 29. 

Feuille, Vcte de, 1447 

Figuier, L., 1512. 

Fioscono, C., 309. 

Fitch, C. H., 1041. 

Fittis, R. S., 1289. 

Folkard, H. C., 1271. 

Forrester. Frank (see Herbert), 

488. 

Fowler, J. K., 1213. 
Frances, F., 1278. 
Frankland, Sir Thomas, 402. 
Fretay, Baron H. du, 1438. 
Friederich, 326. 
Fucar, Pablo del, 6. 
Fuchs, 346. 
Furttenbach, J., 139, 163. 

Gail. J. B., 1471. 
Galand, 1509. 
Gale, F., 1209. 

Galezzo Gualdo Priorato, 161. 
Gamier, P., 1423, 1444. 1452. 
Garvie, J., 2125. 
Gatti, A., 122. 
Gautier, 225. 
Gay, J. D., 1333. 
Gaya, L. de, 199, 206. 
Geisler, 302, 307. 
Gentilini, E., 31, 158. 
Gerard, C. Jules Basel, 1417. 
1418, 1419, 1420, 1421, 1422. 



Index. 



195 



Gerstsecker, F., 13G3. 

Gheya, J. de, 111. 

Giles, Jacob, 253, 254. 

Gillion, F., 1528. 

Gillmore, Parker, 1306-14. 

Girard, 319. 

Girardin, C. de, 511. 

Giraudeau. 1470. 

Girolamo Cataneo, 14, 15. 

" Gloan," 1013. 

Godwin, F., 1048. 

Goldman, N., 169. 

Gonzalez Velasco, E., 1813. 

Gonzalez v Arcaina, J., 805. 

Goodenough, O. H., 2117. 

Goodman, J. D., 1051. 

Gosset, Capt., 1552. 

Gould, A. C., 1029, 1101, 1386. 

Graevnitz, 326. 

Grasshoff, F. B. G., 602. 

Grassol, A., 1443. 

Gravius or Greaves, J., 213. 

Gray, J., 257. 

Greener, W., 443, 462, 1002, 1055. 

Greener, W. O., 1037. 

Greener, W. W., 1012. 1015, 1016, 

1023, 1027, 1506, 1572, 1645, 

1707, 1820. 1922. 
Greenwood, W., 284. 
Grenville-Murray, E. C., 1224. 
Gresse, G. de, 32. 
Greville, B. Violet, 1202, 1203. 
Gribeauval, 336. 
Grignon, 338. 
Grirnble, A., 1283. 
Grinnel, G. B., 1389. 
Groben, 329. 

Grose, Francis, 293, 294, 295. 
Grundels, 301. 
Gryndall, W., 35. 
Guilano Bossi, 134. 
Guillaumot, E., 1521. 
Guillelmi, D. E., 809. 
Guinard, Arthur, 1508. 
Guserio, Jordam. 309. 
Guttmann, 0., 2126. 

Hake, C. N., 2121. 



Halford, Sir H., 1190. 

Hall, H. B., 476 J 490, 491, 1217. 

Hall, Lucullus, 1225. 

Hallock, C., 1374-76. 

Halma du Fretay, 1438. 

Hamilton, D., 1343. 

Hanger, Col. G., 416, 418. 

Hardy, C., 1362. 

Haridon, 0. P. L', 2354. 

Harris. Sir W. C., 449, 453. 456, 

469, 1381. 

Harrison. W. B., 1042. 
Hartins-, J. G., 1272, 1297. 
Hartley, W. G., 1108. 
Hasenbank, 304. 
Hassell, J., 427. 

Haubruck, T. S. (pseudonym), 483. 
Hawes, Capt., 2144. 
Hawker, Col. P., 415. 
Hazelet, Lorrain, 149. 
Heath, H., 1188. 
Heaton. , 1183. 
Hebler, F. W., 1631. 
Heinsius, 313. 
Henriquez, J., 1466. 
Henshall, J. A., 1395. 
Hentsch, F.. 1609, 1627. 
Herbert, H.'W., 488. 
Hertling, Ph. v., 1601. 
Heurt, J., 2302, 2368. 
Heurteloup, M., 517. 
Hodgkinson, W. E., 2124. 
Hoffman, C. F., 452. 
Hoffman, L., 616. 
Hogg. 1618. 

Hohberg, W. H. v., 306. 
Holliday. F.. 266. 
Hooper, J. J., 1266. 
Horsfield. K., 1280. 
Houdetot, A. de, 1557, 1558. 
Hovel, H. de B., 1189. 
Howett, J., 460. 
Howitt, Sam., 410-14. 
Hewlett, Robt., 1233. 
Hubbard, J., 1399. 
Hunter, H. E., 1371. 
Hunter, S. J., 1365. 
Hyde, J. T.. 1158. 



196 



Index. 



Indra, A., 1622. 

Inglis, Hon. J., 1339, 1340, 

1399, e, f, g. 
Irving, J. T. f 446. 
Isodoro, Soler, 349. 
Isselberg, 126. 
Isselt, Dam van, 1630. 

J., K. C. A., 1342. 

Jacob, J., 1186. 

Jacob de Gheyn, 111, 127. 

Jacquinet, 182, 1038. 

Jaramillo, D. M. J., 1801. 

Jeans, T., 1220. 

Jervis, J. W., 1004. 

Jewett, L., 1110. 

Joao Rodrigues, 308. 

Johnson, Daniel, 1322. 

Johnson, T. B., 420, 421, 423. 

424, 437, 470, 1006, 1264. 
Josephus Furtenbach, 139. 
Jouffret, E., 1549. 
Jourdeuil, E., 1431. 
Julien, Ch. de St., 108. 
Jnllien, E., 1467. 
Justus Lipsius, 36. 

K. C. A. J., 1342. 
Karr, H. W. S., 1302. 
Karsten, 326. 
Kaspar Burger, 30. 
Kebbel, T. E., 1281, 1282. 
Keep, F., 1260. 
Kempers, A. G., 1901. 
Kennedy, Admiral, 1399J. 
Kestner, Sig., 191. 
Kimball, J. C., 2306. 
Kincaid, J., 432. 
King, S., 431. 
Kinloch, A. A. A., 1332. 
Kipling, J. L., 1345. 
Knight Horsfield, 1280. 
Koch, G., 1642. 
Krnka, K., 1635. 
Kromar, 1636. 

Labiche, L., 1519. 
Lachevre, R., 1515. 



Lacombe, F., 350. 

Lacy, R., 464. 

Lancaster, Chas., 1251. 

Lander, O., 1050. 

Lankmayr, 1616, 1667. 

Lascelles, Robert, 419. 

Lauffer, 1634. 

Launay, F. de, 1462. 

Laurent, P., 1555. 

Lawrence, J., 425. 

Leale, Miss, 1203. 

Le Blond, 323. 

Le Boeuf, Abbe, 1463. 

Leech, J.. 1219. 

Lefevre, J. B. V., 1550, 1551. 

Leffingwell, W. B., 1357, 1388. 

Lega, A. B. d', 1704. 

Lempschen, C., 1911. 

Lennox, Lord W., 1204. 1205, 

1206. 

Leonardo da Vinci, 243. 
Leue, H., 1645. 
Leutmann, A., 314. 
Leveson, H. A., 1327-31, 1337. 
Lewis, E. J., 1361. 
L'Haridon, 0, P.. 2354. 
Libioulle, K, 1412. 
Liebault, J., 44. 
Liebnechts, 311. 
Lipsius, Justus, 36. 
Llave, P. de la, 810. 
Lloyd, L., 434. 
Lomdomo, S. de, 26. 
Long, J. W., 1397a. 
Lord, W. B., 1301. 
Lorescha, J. de, 802. 
Loriga, D. 8., 1804. 
Lorrain Hazelet, 149. 
Lucas, T. J., 1359. 
Lydekker, R., 1226. 

MacGregor, J., 1174. 
Macnab, W., 2121. 
Maindron, G. R. M., 1511. 
Majendie, V. D., 1126, 2130. 
Malpeyre, M. de, 523. 
Malthus, F., 143, 174. 
Manceau, C., 1591. 



Index. 



197 



Mangeot, H., 1527. 

Manley, J. J., 1227. 

Manuel de Arellanus, J., 322. 

Marchand, 1461. 

Markharn, F., 1325. 

Markham, Gervase, 44, 137. 

Markland, A., 255. 

" Marksman," 1254. 

Marolles, M. de, 285, 345. 

Martin, C., 1646. 

Martinez, D. V. A., 1808. 

Martinez del Espinar, A., 165. 

Mason, F., 1270. 

Mast, J., 1369. 

Mateos, D. J., 146. 

Mattenhamer, 2148. 

Mattenheimer, 1608. 

Maxwell, W. H.. 438. 440, 1286, 

1288. 

Mayer, J., 471. 
Mayer, A. M., 1304. 
Mazzo Bocca, 9. 
McLennox, K, 280, 281. 
Medrano, H. F. de, 240. 
Meneses, D. F. S., 806. 
Merseuni, 166. 
Metz-Noblat, A. de, 1507. 
Meunier, V., 1315. 
Meyer, M., 1502. 
Meyrick, 2303. 
Mezelles, Y. C. de, 1416. 
Millais, F., 1298. 
Mills, J., 475. 
Mitford, B., 1223. 
Montague, G., 288. 
Morales, Diego, 185. 
Moray or Murray, Sir R., 220. 
Mordecai, A.. 2116. 
More, Sir Jonas. 210. 
Moretti, 195. 
Morogues, B. de, 316. 
Mountain. W., 263. 
Muller, J.', 262, 265. 267. 
Munroe, C. F., 2110. 
Murphy, J. M., 1397. 
Murray {see Moray), 220. 
Murray, E. C. Grenville, 1224. 
Muzeau, E., 1547. 



Napier, E. H. D. E., 467. 

Naylor, J., 178. 

Neree-Quepat, 1453. 

"Nessmuk,"1394. 

Neumann, Ig., 1643, 1644. 

Neumeyer, 2111. 

" Newtonensis," 1010. 

Niccols, R., 119. 

Nicolls, J. A., 1554. 

" Nimrod " {see C. Appesley), 451. 

Noblat, A. de M., 1507. 

Noble, Capt., 21 is. 

Noe, Viscomte de, 1410. 

Nollain, F., 2358. 

Norton, Robert, 140. 

Nursey, F. N., 2113. 

Nye, N., 190. 

Oakleigh. T. {see Wilson, J.) 

Ocon, M., 1820. 

O'Connor, R,, 484. 

Okes, G. C., 1231. 

" Old Gamekeeper," 1257. 

" Old Shikaree " '{see Leveson), 

1327, etc.. 1337. 
Oliviera, B. Botelho de, 305. 
Orlandi, 105. 
Orleans. P. Due d', 1432. 
Orsman'n, W. J., 2127. 
Ortus, Col., 1523. 
Osbaldeston, W. A., 290. 

Paez Jaramillo. D. M., 1801. 

Page, C. E., 1545. 

Page, Thomas, 268. 

Pairault, A., 1401. 

Panot, L., 1501. 

Panzera, F. W.. 1151. 

Papin, N., 218. 

Paquee, E., 1524. 

Paracelsus (P. A. T. Bombast von 

Hohenheim), 2152. 
Parent, E., 1402. 
Partington, C. F., 1043. 
Paulin-Desormeaux, M. A. O., 

1536. 
Payne-Gallwey, SirR,, 1020, 1024, 

1276-7. 



198 



Index. 



Peake, R. B., 450. 

Peigne de la Court, 1460. 

Peirander, 242. 

Penn, R,, 448. 

Perez, J. A., 1803. 

Pergasus, Apollonius, 278. 

Perrodon, J., 1544. 

Petit, J. F., 1566. 

Petrini, A., 156. 

Pfister, 1624, 1625. 

" Pharaon, F." (see Cherville), 

1563. 

Philippe, Due d'Orleans, 1432. 
Piebourg, P., 1531. 
Pietro Sardi, 128. 
Pinkney, R., 1113. 
Pinto y Velarde, A. C., 328. 
Piobert, G., 2153, 2154. 
Pistoris, H. C., 1652. 
Plach, F., 2135. 
Plan. Donueaud du, 509. 
Plunket, Thomas, 222. 
Plutonei, 315. 
Ply, G., 1532. 
Polain, A., 1535. 
Polain, J., 1536-42. 
Pollok, Lieut.-Col. F., 1335. 
Pons, L. D. A. J., 1570. 
Ponteaux, A., 2131. 
Powell, W. B., 1399, g. 
Preuss, v., 5. 
Price, Gwvnne, 1259. 
Price, Sir R. L., 1372. 
Pringle, Sir J., 275. 
Priorato, Galazzo Gualdo, 161. 
Prosser, C. E., 1036. 
Puelles, Alejo de, 2. 
" Purple Heather/' 1025, 1026. 
Pye, H. J., 276, 283, 287, 408. 

Quaritch, B., 1038. 
Quepat, N., 1453. 
Quesada, J. C., 1809. 
Quesnay, A. du, 1702. 

Raenkel, J., 1522. 
Rafter, Captain, 1104. 
Ramelli, 22. 



Randall, J., 1213. 

Rawlings, E., 206. 

Ray, John, 201. 

Reed, F. M., 1368. 

Reid, Capt. Mayne, 1129. 

Remy, S., 235, 323. 

Rene, Frangois, pseudonym (see 

P. Binet), 132. 
Revoil, B. H., 1364. 
Reynardson, E. T. S. B., 1303. 
Reynolds, C. B., 1236, 1237. 
Riche, B., 21. 
Riencourt, C., 2155. 
Rigg, A., 2125. 
Bitter, E., 1458. 
Robert, L., 2355. 
Roberts, J., 153. 
Roberts, T., 403. 
Robins, Benj., 258. 
Robinson, H., 1415, 1564. 
Rodrigues, Joao, 308. 
Roosevelt, Th., 1378, 1389, 1391, 

1393. 

Routillet, F., 1433. 
Roux, Henri, 507. 
Roux, J. W., 606, 627. 
Roux, Louis, 1503. 
Rudolph, Prince, 1321. 
Ruscelli, 125. 
Russell, W. H., 1107. 
Rydholm, 0. B., 1911. 

S. H. (see Howitt), 410 
Saavedra, J. F., 1819. 
St. Aruezeuil, C., 1406. 
St. Auban, Marquis, 522. 
St. Bonnet, Ch. Blanc, 506. 
St. John, C., 1284, 1285. 
St. John. Hon. F., 1319. 
St. Remy. 235. 
Sales, D. de, 502. 
Saltzer, C. F., 608. 
Salvati, F., 2136. 
Sanderson) G. P., 1336. 
Santiago Loriga, 1804. 
SSardi, Pietro, 128. 
Sauer, K. T. v., 1637. 
Scheel, 340. 



Index. 



199 



Schild, Gunther, 609, 611. 

Schmidt, C. H., 1619. 

Schmidt, E. 0., 623, 62(5. 

Schmidt, R., 1504. 

Schmidt, Kudolph, 1603-6. 

Schreiber, G., 179, 237. 

Schrenck, J., 101. 

Schwachii, 133. 

Scoffern, J.. 2143. 

Scott, W. H., 422. 

Scrope. W., 447. 

Sears, M. U., 1132. 

Seaton-Karr, H. W., 1302 

Selous, F. C., 1356, 1357. 

" Seneca," 1385. 

Shelvock, G. S., 256. 

Shields, G. 0., 1382-4. 

Shirley, H., 152. 

Shotterel, R., 200. 

Siacci, F., 1555. 

Siemenowicz, Gas., 171, 256. 

Simon, J. B., 317. 

Simons, F. C., 1152, 1160. 

Skelton, 2304. 

Slade. C. G., 1131. 

Smith, F., 2106. 

Smith, G. P., 1235. 

Smith, Hawkes, 458. 

Smith (Smyth), Sir John, 27, 33, 

142. 

Smythe, Thomas, 42. 
Sobrero, C., 2109. 
Soler, I., 349. 
Somerville, W., 297. 
Sourbe, T., 1505. 
Spadoni, N., 197. 
Sparre, Vcte de, 1526. 
Specht, F. U. V., 1602. 
Speedy, T., 1291. 
Sponek, C. F. v., 604. 
Sponeman, A., 617. 
Stables, W. G., 1316. 
Stahl, J. F., 325, 339. 
Starr, G. O., 1189. 
Starrat, W., 261. 
Stelle, G. P.. 1042. 
Sterndale. R. A., 1346. 
Stevens, Charles, 44. 



Stevens, Capt. J. H., 442. 
Stockbridge, V. D., 1030. 
Straton, B., 1377. 
Surflet, R., 44. 
Surtees, W., 441. 

Talberg, 1221. 
Tamarez de la Escaler, 177. 
Taplin, W., 292, 405. 
Tarnovski, 1922. 
Tartaglia, Nicolas. 8, 23. 
Tenuent, G. E., 1007-8. 
Thackeray, Capt., 1177. 
Thiel, E.. 1620. 
Thierbach, M., 1607. 
Thierry, M., 518. 
Thompson, 478. 
Thompson, J., 2^6. 
Thompson, M., 1396. 
Thon, C. F. G., 607, 614, 620. 
Thornhill, R. B., 407. 
Thornton, N., 1111. 
Thrasher, H., 1367. 
Timaeus, G. E. L. v., 347. 
Tolfrey, F., 463, 473. 
Torelli, L., 1703. 
Torricelli, 167. 
Townshend. J. K., 487. 
Tozer, B., 1022. 
Tronson de Coudray 330. 
Tupper, M. F., 1106. 

Ufano, Diego, 116. 
Uft'ans, D., 116, 131. 
Utrecht, W. C. v., 159. 

Vallier, E., 1553, 1554. 
Valturius, Robertus, 1. 
Valvasone, Erasmo de, 104. 
Vandelli. F. de, 331. 
Van Isselt, D., 1630. 
Van Utrecht, W. C., 159. 
Van Vinkeroy, C., 2356. 
Van Zedlitz, F., 184. 
Varenne de Feuille, 1447. 
Velasco, E. G., 1813. 
Velarde, A. C. P., 328. 
Venn, Thos., 194. 







200 



Index. 



Victor, Adam, 519. 

Viergol, T. M. de, 1810, 1811. 

Viglezzi, J., 1706. 

Vinci. Leonardo da, 243. 

Vinkenroy, En., 2356. 

Vita Bonfadini, 155, 175. 

Vogel, H., 318. 

Von Basedow, A., 1655. 

Von Benburg, E. A., 1653. 

Yon Cranach, U., 192. 

Von Ehrenkreutz, 1651. 

Von Hertling, 1601. 

Von Sauer, 1637. 

Von Specht, F. W., 1602. 

Von Sponek, C. G., 604. 

Walford, E. C., 1123. 

Walker, A., 1124. 

Walker, D., 457. 

Wallhausen, V., 121. 

Walsh, J. H., 1005, 1017, 1056, 

1102, 1171, 1262. 
Walsingbam, Lord, 1299. 
Ward, 1044. 
Ward, Ed., 1267. 
Wardell, W. H., 2114. 
Warren, T. K., 1366. 
Watson, B. A., 1380. 
Watt, W. } 444. 



Webb, G., 1001. 
Weygand, H., 1621. 
Whitwortb, Sir J., 1134. 
Wilcox, C. M., 1122. 
Wilde, Oscar, 1441. 
"Wildfowler" (see Clement). 

1273 etc 

Wilhelm Cl'aesz v. Utrecht, 159. 
Wilkins, J., 1218. 
Wilkinson, H., 461. 
Willard, G. L., 1187. 
Williams, 2305. 
Williamson, Thos., 409. 
Willoghbceus, F., 201. 
Wilson, J., 445, 459, 466. 
Winch, 1634. 
Wingate, G. W., 1181. 
Winkrat, 1685. 
Wolley, C. P., 1028, 1390. 
Wolverton, Lord, 1355. 

Xibaja, J. de, 185. 

Yauville, D', 221. 

Yonne, C. de Mezelles, 1416. 

Zedlitz, F. v.. 184. 
Zuebler, 117. 



APPENDIX. 

Some IRecent Boofes 
ano missions, 

1895. 



ENGLISH BOOKS. 



FIREARMS. 

01. -THE BREECH-LOADER AND How TO USE IT; WITH 
NOTES ON RIFLES. W. W. Greener. An enlarged 
edition (v. No. 1027) of a sportsman's handbook. The 
additional matter consists of chapters treating of 
"Rifles of the Past and Present," "The Sporting 
Rifle," " Rudiments of Rifle Shooting," " Long Shots," 
" The 303 as a Sporting Weapon," and a general 
index. There are also fresh illustrations and some 
alterations in the general arrangement of the book, and 
fresh notes on shot guns, powders, etc. Fifth edition, 
Cassell & Co., London, 1895. Svo, 405 pp., illustrated, 
paper boards, 2s. 6d. 

02. PRACTICAL HINTS TO SPORTSMEN on the purchase of 
their weapons. J. H. Crane. This is little more than, 
an amplified catalogue of weapons made by Mr. Crane, 
who is given as the author of " Modern Military Small 
Arms," but it contains some interesting particulars of 
the methods of gunmaking current in Birmingham a 
quarter of a century ago. Thompson & Sons, Hatton 
Garden, London, 1872. Svo, 44 pp. and woodcuts. 

03. TEXT BOOK FOR MILITARY SMALL ARMS. Official. 
Contains a short history of the military musket, 
descriptions of those formerly used in the British Army, 
and those now forming the equipment of Modern 
Armies, with particulars for then- identification and 
that of their ammunition, their ballistic value, etc. 
Eyre & Spottiswoode, etc., London, Edinburgh, and 
Dublin, 1894. 159 pp., plates, 2s. Qd. 

203 



204 Some Recent Boolzs and Omissions. 

04. RIFLES. A chapter and some notes on " A Course 
of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery." Capt. H. 
Metcalfe. J. Wiley, New York, 1891. 

05. MANNLICHER RIFLE. A monograph of the Mannlicher 
Rifle, its varieties, and the ballistics of the various 
calibres in use. Schwarte & Hammer, London, 1895. 
Privately printed. 

06. ACCLES MACHINE GUN. J. G. Accles. A monograph 
on the improved form of Gatling Machine Gun, 
illustrated with photographs, diagrams, etc. Mole, 
Birmingham, 1895. 8vo, privately printed. 

07. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TARGET SHOOTING. A. G. 
Foulkes.. Practical hints on the use of military and 
match rifles, a description of the effects of different 
atmospheric conditions, * and instructions in the use 
of various aids to rifle shooting by a well-known expert 
shot. Illustrated with numerous diagrams, etc. The 
contents include : 

Introduction to Target Shooting and its Uses. Use of 
Rifling. Gunpowder and Explosives. Cordite. Points of an 
Ideal Rifle. Hints as to Choice of a Martini. Care of the 
Rifle. Necessity of Scientific Knowledge. Official Positions 
and Discussions thereon. The Four Rules for Aiming and 
Discussions thereon. The Eye in its relation to Shooting. 
Theoretical Principles. Flip. Forces to which the Bullet is 
Exposed. Description of Shooting Instruments (Verniers, 
etc.), and Hints as to their Use. Targets. Rules to be 
Observed in Learning to Pull Off. Causes of Failure in Rifle 
Shooting. Blowing Off. Team Shooting. Training. Match 
Rifles and Hints on their Selection. Record Scores. Rules. 
Rifle Sights and Adjustments. Index. 

H. Cox, London, 1895. Demy 8vo, illustrated, 21 
plates, 228 pp., 10s. Qd. 

08. MODERN RIFLE SHOOTING. "A Marksman." A hand- 
book for Volunteers. J. S. Phillips, London, 1895. 
8vo, 174 pp., 2s. 6d. 



Shooting. 205 



SHOOTING. 

010. A YEAR, OF SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY. Edited 
by Sir Oswald Crawfurd. Aims at sketching sports 
at every season of the year : deer stalking, grouse 
driving, rabbit shooting are included in the series, 
which embraces every variety of sport found in the 
British Isles ; and has chapters on birds of prey, 
the nidification of birds, and the habits of British wild 
birds and animals. Many illustrations by F. Feller, 
A. T. Elwes, and others. Chapman & Hall, London, 
1895. Demy 4to, 1 Is. 

Oil. SKETCHES IN GROUSE- LAND. E.G.Mackenzie. Essays. 
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1895. Svo, pp. viii, 
248. 

012. ART OF WILDFOWLING. Abel Chapman. This book 
is far more than it professes to be : instead of being 
confined to "first lessons," it is one of the ablest 
treatises on the most general of British sports, and 
the one that has of late attracted most attention owing 
to the fact that modern methods of shooting gratify 
those only who delight in successful marksmanship. 
Sportsmen who take pleasure in hunting their game 
more and more resort to wildfowling, and the literature 
of this branch of the sport of shooting is rapidly 
increasing. Mr. Chapman, after devoting twelve 
chapters to the practice of wildfowling and the habits 
of wildfowl at home and abroad, adds five chapters of 
reminiscences, of which the best are " Two Seasons on 
Home Waters," and " Two Seasons in Southern Spain." 
Mr. Chapman was part author of " Wild Spain," and 
his writings afford valuable information for sportsmen 
seeking sport near Great Britain. This volume has 
thirty-six illustrations by the author, and three by 
Charles Whymper. London: H. Cox, 1896. Svo, 
illustrated, 268 pp., 10s. Qd. 



206 Some Recent Books and Omissions. 

013. PRACTICAL WILDFOWLING. H. Sharp. Instructions 
for beginners, reprinted, with additions, from The 
Exchange and Mart, illustrated with process blocks 
from drawings of wildfowl, etc., by H. Sharp, and 
woodcuts of guns and gear. Part I., Outfit and 
Accessories; II., Wildfowling ; III., Shore-birds and 
Shore-bird Shooting. L. Upcott Gill, London, 1895. 
8vo, 291 pp., price 12s. 6cZ. 

014. WILDFOWL AND SEAFOWL OF GREAT BRITAIN. "A 
Son of the Marshes." Edited by J. A. Owen. Twelve 
illustrations by Bryan Hook. Descriptions of wild- 
fowl and their haunts, and sketches of marshland 
folk, with some gossip, legend, and folklore. Chapman 
& Hall, London, 1895. Demy 8vo, chh. xxv. 12 
plates, 14s. 

015. BRITISH GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. B. R. Morris. 
A standard work on ornithology for naturalists and 
sportsmen. This fourth edition is edited by W. B. 
Tegetmeier, and has 60 hand-coloured plates. J. C. 
Nimmo, London, 1895. 2 vols., royal 8vo, 400 pp., 
30s. net. 

016. THE GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL OF THE BRITISH 
ISLANDS. Charles Dixon. A handbook for the naturalist 
and sportsman. " Full of interest for the bird lover, 
and full of information for the sportsman, besides 
being copious and exact from the purely scientific point 
of view." Illustrated by A. T. Elwes; a special 
edition with coloured plates. Chapman & Hall, 
London, 1895. Demy 8vo, 484 pp., 18s. 

017. THE GROUSE. A book of the "Fur and Feather 
Series." The natural history by the Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson, the shooting by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, the 
cookery by George Saintsbury. A companion book to 
" The Partridge," by the same authors (see No. 1299). 
Thirteen illustrations by A. J. Stuart- Wortley and 
A. Thorburn, and diagrams in the text. Similar 
monographs in the same series are announced as 



Shooting. 207 



follows : " The Pheasant," by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, 
the Eev. H. A. Macpherson, and A. J. Innes-Shancl. 
" The Hare and the Rabbit," by the Hon. Gerald 
Lascelles. "Wildfowl," by the Hon. John Scott- 
Montagu. "Red Deer," by Cameron of Lochiel. 
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1894. Crown 
8vo, 5s. 

018. PRACTICAL PHEASANT REARING: with an Appendix 
on Grouse Driving. R, J. L. Price. H. Cox, London. 
Post 8vo, 3s. Qd. 

019. GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING SKETCHES. J. G. Millais. 
Illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of 
plumage, and of hybrids and varieties. Coloured 
plates and other illustrations, and a Frontispiece by 
Sir J. E. Millais. For an earlier edition see No. 1298. 
Sotheran, London, 1894. 4to, pp. xii, 72. 

020. GAME BIRDS AT HOME. T. S. Van Dyke. Sporting 
sketches. Sampson Low, London, 1895. Crown 8vo, 
220 pp., 7s. Qd. 

021. LAND BIRDS AND GAME BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
H. D. Meriot. A book for naturalists. New York 
and London, 1895. 

022. NORTH AMERICAN SHORE BIRDS. D. G. Elliott. A 
reference book for the naturalist and sportsman. 
Suckling, 1895. 8vo, 268 pp., 10s. 

023. SPORT IN ENGLAND : PAST AND PRESENT. Col. E. C. 
C. Eartopp. Chiefly relates to shooting. The contents 
include : 

CONTENTS. Useful Hints to Young Beginners. Young 
England as a Sportsman. The Poaching of Paired Birds. 
The Egg Season and its Enemies. Landlord and Tenant 
Rights. Crop Cutting. " St. Grouse " : Past and Present. 
" St. Partridge ": Past and Present. "Longtails": Past and 
Present. " Covert Shooting." Good Shots, and others. - 
Funny Facts in Sports. A Few Hints on Shooting Kits. 
Ferrets and their Management. Trapping, Netting, and 
Snaring. Poaching and How it is Done. Small Days and 



208 Some Recent Books and Omissions. 



Pot Hunting. Turning Down Live Bought Pheasants. How 
and Where Rabbit-farming can Pay. The Gamekeeper and his 
Duties. Guns and Gunmakers. Sport, as I have Found it. 
The Woodcock. The Partridge. The Cat. The Stoat. The 
Weasel. The Rat. Recipes for Diseases in Dogs. Retrievers 
of the Present Day, 

H. Cox, London, 1895, post 8vo, 3s. Qd. 

024. DAYS IN THULE WITH GUN AND ROD. John Sicker- 
dyke. An illustrated record of times past in a shooting 
lodge in the Hebrides. Constable, London, 1894. 
12mo, 196 pp., 3s. 6d. ; another edition 16mo, 1895, 
2s. Gd. 

025. THOUGHTS ON SPORT. H. R. Sargent. Simpkin, 
London, 1895. 8vo, 454 pp., 10s. 6d. 

026. DIARY OF COLONEL PETER HAWKER. Extracts from 
the records and rough notes made by the author of 
" Instructions to Young Sportsmen," with an introduc- 
tion by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. Two portraits 
and eight illustrations taken from the last edition of 
the " Instructions." The cream of the diaries was 
extracted by the colonel himself for the various editions 
of his own books ; the information here given consists 
chiefly of personal details and quaint remarks; but 
there is an interesting account of shooting-trips to the 
north for grouse shooting. Longmans, Green & Co., 
London, 1894. 2 vols. 8vo, 32s. 

027. SONGS AND BALLADS OF SPORT. W. W. Tomlinson. 
Old sporting songs. Scott, London, 1895. 16mo, 
318 pp., Is. 

028. CONVERSATIONAL HINTS FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS : a 
Guide to Polite Talk. R. C. Lehman. A facetious 
work reprinted from Punch. Chatto, London, 1894. 
8vo, pp. viii, 114. 

029. NEW SPORTING STORIES. G. G. Chiefly racing and 
hvinting. Bellairs, London, 1895. 8vo, 226 pp., 
3s. 6d 



Foreign Sport. 209 



030. TALES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A SPORTSMAN. /. S. 
Turgeniev. Sketches of life in Russian villages ; 
political rather than sporting. Translated by E. Richter. 
Lamley, London, 1895. Svo, 260 pp., 3s. 6d. 

031. HUNTERS THREE. T. W. Knox. Stories. 

032. POACHERS AND POACHING. John Watson. A book 
which game-keepers and game-preservers may study 
with advantage. Chapman & Hall, London, 1894. 
Frontis., crown Svo, pp. viii, 327, 7s. Gd. 

033. MAKING A SHOOTING. Anonymous. A pamphlet 
giving the author's experiences in game-rearing, and 
some practical hints. Sonnenschein, London, 1894. 
Svo, 92 pp., Is. 

034. GAMEKEEPER'S SHOOTING MEMORANDUM BOOK. " I. E. 
B. C." A book for registering number of game shot, 
sent for sale, etc. London, H. Cox. Pocket diary 
form, price Is. 6d. 



FOREIGN SPOKT. 

035. -GuN, RIFLE AND HOUND IN EAST AND WEST. 
" Snaffle." Sketches of sport, chiefly hunting. Illus- 
trated by H. Dixon. Chapman & Hall, London, 
1894. Demy Svo, pp. x, 376; 14s. 

036. TEN YEARS' TRAVEL AND SPORT IN FOREIGN LANDS , 
or, Travels in the Eighties. H. W. Seton-Karr. A 
new enlarged edition with portrait (see No. 1302). 
Chapman & Hall, London, 1894. Or. Svo, ill., pp. Ix, 
445; 5s. 

037. HUNTING IN MANY LANDS. Edited by Theo. Roosevelt 
and Geo. Bird Grinnell. The book of the American 
Boone and Crockett Club, treating of the sporting 
adventures and experiences of various members in 

14 



210 Some Recent Books and Omissions. 

East Africa, California, Canada, India, Russia, Mon- 
golia and elsewhere in search of big game. It is a 
book of sport undertaken for sport's sake ; and some 
parts have much offended naturalists and those who 
hope to see the preservation of large wild game. 
Douglas, Edinburgh, 1895. Svo, 448 pp. ; 15s. 

038. THIRTY YEARS OF SHIKAR. Sir E. Braddon. Recol- 
lections of sport, chiefly in the East. Blackwood, 
Edinburgh, 1895. 8vo, 372 pp. ; 18s. 

039. A SPORTING PILGRIMAGE. C. P. Whitney. Of no 
interest to shooters : consists of studies in such British 
sports as golf, football, etc. Osgood, New York, 1895. 
8vo, ill., pp. xii, 397. 

040. THE SPORTSMAN'S MANUAL. R. U. Tyacke. A 
guide for those in search of game in Spiti, Bara, 
Bagahab, etc. Thacker, Spink, Calcutta, 1893. pp. 
vi, 128. 

041. SHOOTING AND YACHTING TRIPS IN THE MEDITER- 
RANEAN. Col. Bayot. Allen, London, 1887; n.e. 1895, 
pp. viii, 224. 

042. TRAVELS, SPORTS, AND POLITICS IN THE EAST OF 
EUROPE. Marquis of Huntly. Contains little of shoot- 
ing. Chapman & Hall, London, 189-. Crown 8vo, 
ill., pp. viii, 311 ; 12s. 

043. SPORTING DAYS IN SOUTHERN INDIA : being Reminis- 
cences of Twenty Trips in Pursuit of Big Game, chiefly 
in the Madras Presidency. Lieut.-Col. A. J. C. Pollock. 
The contents include : three chapters devoted to Tiger 
Shooting and to Bear Shooting, and two each to the 
Panther, Bison, Elephant, Deer and Antelopes. There 
is a chapter on the Ibex, and two chapters on Mis- 
cellaneous game. The book is well illustrated by 
Whymper and others. H. Cox, London, 1895. Royal 
Svo, pp. xx, 252 ; 16s. 



Foreign Sport. 211 



044. INCIDENTS OP FOREIGN SPORT AND TRAVEL. Col. 
Pollock. Adventures and experiences of hunting big 
game (see No. 1335). Illustrated by A. T. Elwes. 
Chapman & Hall, London, 1895. Demy Svo, pp. vi, 
427; 16s. 

045. TIGER SHOOTING IN THE DOON AND ULWAR. Fife 
Cookson. Records of shooting trips and experiences, 
and sketches of life in India. Chapman & Hall, 
London, 1887. 111., pp. xi, 257, Svo. 

046. SPORT IN LADAKH. F. E. 8. A. Contains five 
chapters, each treating of a day's shooting, after the 
Ibex, Bushel, Ovis Ammon, Goa, and the Shapoo. 
H. Cox, London, 1895. Demy 4to, ill., 38, pp. 
boards, 5s. 

047. RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPUTS. Mrs. Alan 
Gardner. A narrative of a winter's travel and sport 
in Northern India. Chatto, London, 1895. Imperial 
Svo, ill., 352 pp., 21s. 

048. SPORT ON THE PAMIRS. C. Sperling Cumberland. 
An account of a shooting expedition on the Pamirs 
and the Turkestan steppes. Frontispiece and map. 
Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1895. Svo, pp. x, 278. 

049. SPORT IN INDIA AND SOMALI LAND. J. 8. Edye. 
Contains some hints to sportsmen. Gale & Polden, 
Aldershot, 1895. Crown Svo, 170 pp., 6s. 

050. LION HUNTING IN SOMALI LAND ; also an account of 
" Pig-sticking the African Wart Hog." . C. J. Melliss. 
Illustrated from photographs by the author and C. 
Aldin. Chapman & Hall, London, 1895. Svo, 182 pp , 
7s. Gd. 

051. IN HAUNTS OF WILD GAME. F. V. Kirby. "Maqua- 
quamba." An account of the wanderings of a naturalist. 
Contains much sporting information relating to the 
Kahlamba- Limpopo district. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 
1895. Large demy Svo, portrait, and illustrations by 
C. Whimper, 25s. 



212 Some Recent Books and Omissions. 

052. SPORT IN ASHANTI. J. A. Skertchley. Seems to have 
appeared in 1876 as " Melinda the Caboceer ; or Sport 
in Ashanti," by the author of " Ashanti as it is." It 
is a tale of the Gold Coast. London, 1895. 8vo, ill. 

053. BEAR HUNTING IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS ; or, 
Alaska and British Columbia Revisited. H. W. Seton- 
Karr. Chapman & Hall, London, 189 . Crown 8vo, 
map and ill., pp. vi, 156, 4s. Qd. 

054. GUNSHOT INJURIES. T. Longmore. The history, 
characteristic features, complications and general 
treatment of bullet wounds, and statistics concerning 
them. Longmans, London; n.e. 1895. 8vo, 864 pp.,. 
78 woodcuts, 31s. Qd. 

055. How I SHOT MY BEARS. Mrs. R. H. Tyacke, edited 
by E. E. Cathell. A record of two years' camp life in 
Kullu, and of sport in the Himalayas. Low, London, 
1893. Svo, maps and ill., pp. xi, 318, Ws. 6d. 

056. THE DEAD SHOT. " Marksman." Purports to be a 
complete guide for the sportsman ; a treatise on the use 
of the Gun, with lessons in the Art of Game-shooting, 
Game-driving, Wildfowling, and Trap-shooting. Long- 
mans, London, 1895. New (seventh) edition, 12 ill.> 
crown Svo, 10s. Qd. 



FOREIGN BOOKS. 

0101. LA CHASSE DE GIBIER DANS L'EST. C. Velin. A 
treatise on game preserving and forestry in the 
eastern provinces of France. G. Frassen, Epinal, 
n.d. 8vo, 180 pp. 

0102. BALISTIQUE EXTJSRIEURE. Col. Zaboudskie. A 
course of lectures delivered at the St. Petersburg 
Academy of Science. 



Foreign Books. 213 



0103. DICTIONNAIRE MiLiTAiRE. By A Committee of 
Officers. A military encyclopaedia and polyglot dic- 
tionary of technical terms in use. In addition to 
definitions, descriptions, etc., the equivalent terms are 
given in German, English, Italian, Spanish, and 
Russian ; the last in Roman characters with accented 
pronunciation. Now issuing in 20 parts ; will be com- 
prised in 2 large 8vo vols., double cols., of 1280 pp. 
each vol. Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 3 fr. each part. 

0104. DIE GEHEIMNISSE der Englischen Gewehr-fabrikation 
und Buchsenmacher-Kunst ; so wie der Erzeugung der 
Verschiedenen Eisenforten zu den feinsten Jagd- 
gewehren. William Greener. Translated by Ch. H. 
Schmidt. Practically " The Science of Gunnery " (No. 
462), but with many additions, some not found in any 
of the English additions. B. F. Vorgt, Weimar, 1842. 
Svo, 344 pp., 16 litho plates. 

0105. SELBTSPANNER GEWEHRE. W. Witte. A brochure 
on Automatic guns. Eisenschmidt, Berlin, 1895. Svo. 

0106. SCHOSS. Brandeis. A brochure on shooting. 
Hartleben, Vienna, 1895. Svo. 

0107. EXPLOSIVES. Priiparate und der Geschoss-con- 
struction. Siedel & Sohn, Vienna, 1895. Svo. 

0108. GEMEINFASSLICHE WAFFENLEHRE. W. Witte. A 
handbook for self-instruction. Gives a short history 
of early firearms and precise details of the powers and 
uses of various modern military rifles. Seigfried, 
Mettler & Sohn, Berlin, 1887, etc. Svo, 247 pp., 
7 litho plates. 

0109. FORTSCHRITTE und Vervanderungen im Gebiete des 
Waffenwesens in d. Neuster Zeit. W. Witte. This is 
an appendix to the preceding. Three parts. Lebel's 
Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1894. Large Svo, 258 pp., 
woodcuts in text. 



214 Some Recent Books and Omissions. 



ARTICLES IN CURRENT LITERATURE. 

0121. SHOOTING. Ontario's big game. Canadian Maga- 
zine, vol. iv. Extermination of great game in South 
Africa. H. A. Bryden. Fortnightly Review, Ivi. 
538. Winter's Sport in the Rockies. W. B. Grohman, 
English Illustrated Magazine, xii. 19. Climbing for 
white goats in America. G. B. Grinnell, Scribner, 
xv. 643. Famous hunting parties of the plains. 
Cosmopolitan, xvii. Stray shots in Mexico, 0. H. 
Howarth, Outing, xi. 52. The American Sportswoman. 
E. C. Barney, Fortnightly Review, Ivi. 263. 

0122. RIFLES. The Russian "Mark" 3 rifle in Abyssinia. 
An article in the Russki Invalid for 1894, p. 237, etc. 
The magazine rifle; its development and use, Lieut. 
W. A. Campbell, United Service Magazine, 1894, xii. 
403. Dr. A. Demosthen's Experiments with the 
Roumanian 6 % 5 m.m. Mannlicher. Med. Mon. iii. 
1894. Effect of the small-bore bullet on horses. 
Vet. Cap. F. Smith, Journal R. U. S. I., xxxviii. 
172. Magazine rifle trials in the United States. 
Cap. F. L. Nathan, Journal R. U. S. I., xxxviii. 175. 
First systematic attempt (by M. Blanc) at inter- 
changeability in firearms. W. F. Durfie, Cassier's 
Magazine, v. 469. 

0123. OLD ARMS. Illustrations and descriptions of the 
weapons of the middle ages are given in T. A. Dodge's 
" Gustavus Adolphus : a History of the Art of War, 
etc." Boston, 1895. Svo. Notes on Armour in the 
Tower of London. Viscount Dillon, Antiquary, xxix. 
25,193. Ancient Arms and Armour. Antiquary, xxix. 
15. Arms and Armour. Col. C. King. An illustrated 
article in the United Service Magazine, cxxx. 45. The 
Beginnings of the British Army. Macmillan, Ixx. 265. 

0124. MISCELLANEOUS. Projectiles and Explosives in War. 
Edinburgh Review, clxxx. 447. Amberite. Chambers' 
Journal, xi. 191. 



NAMES OF AUTHOES IN THE 
SUPPLEMENT. 



A.. F. E. S.. 046. 
Accles, J. G., 06. 

Bagot, Col., 041. 
Barney, E. C., 0121. 
" Bickerdyke,' John," 024. 
Braddon, Sir E.. 038. 
Brandeis, F., 0106 
Bryden. H. A.. 0121. 

C., I. E. B., 034. 

Cameron of Lochiel, 017. 
Campbell, Lieut. W.. 0122. 
Chapman, Abel, 012. 
Cookson, Fife. 045. 
Crane, J. H., 02. 
Crawfurd. Sir Oswald. 010. 
Cumberland, C. Sperling. 048. 

Dillon, Viscount, 0123. 
Dixon, C., 016. 
Dodge, T. A., 0123. 
Dyke, T. S. V., 020. 

Edye. J. S., 049. 
Elliot, D. G., 022. 

"F.E. S. A.," 046. 
Foulkes, A. G., 07. 

" G. G.," 029. 
Gallwey. Sir R. P., 026. 
Gardner, Mrs. Alan, 047. 
Greener, W., 0104. 



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Greener, W. W., 01. 
Grinnell, G. B.. 037. 0121. 
Grohman, W. B.. 0121. 

Hartopp, Col., E. C., 023. 
Howarth. 0. H., 0121. 
Huntly, Marquis of, 042. 

"I.E. B.C.," 034. 
Innes-Shand. A. J., 017. 

Karr, H. W. Seton-. 036, 053. 
King. Col. C., 0123.' 
Kirby, F. V., 051. 
Knox, T. W., 031. 

Lascelles, Hon. G., 017. 
Lehman, E. C., 028. 
Longmore, T., 054. 

Mackenzie, E. G.. Oil. 
Macpherson. H. A., 017. 
" Marksman," 08. 
Meriot, H. D., 021. 
Metcalfe, H., 04. 
Millais. J. G!, 019. 
Morris,' B. B,, 015. 

Nathan, F. L.. 0122. 
Owen. J. A., 014. 

Payne-Gallwey. Sir E., 026. 
Pollock, Col. A. J. C., 043, 044. 



216 Names of Authors in the Supplement. 



Price, R. J. L., 018. 

Eichter, E., 030. 
Roosevelt, T., 037. 

Sargent, H. R., 025. 
Schmidt, Ch. H., 0104. 
Scott-Montagu, Hon. J., 017. 
Seton-Karr, H. W., 036, 053. 
Sharp, H., 013. 
Skertchley, J. A., 052. 
Smith, F., 0122. 
" Snaffle," 035. 
" Son of the Marshes," 014. 
Stuart- Wortley, A. J., 017. 



Tegetmeier, W. B., 015. 
Thorburn, A.. 017. 
Tomlinson, W. W., 027. 
Turgeniev, I. S., 030. 
Tyacke, Mrs. R, H., 055. 
Tyacke, R. H., 040. 

Van Dyke, T. S., 020. 
Velin, C., 0101. 

Watson, J., 032. 
Whitney, C. P., 039. 
Witte, W., 0105, 0108-9. 

Zaboudskie, Col., 0102. 



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