Details

Subject(s)

• Military art and science—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Military fireworks—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• War—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Gunpowder—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Grantham, Henry, active 1571-1587 [Browse]

Former owner

• Wilmerding, Lucius, 1880-1949 [Browse]
• Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631 [Browse]

Rare books genre

Annotations (Provenance)—16th century [Browse]

Notes

• Pt. 2 has title: Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after divers fashions, with their maner of marching: and also fugures of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and more over, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder, and divers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres / gathered & set foorth by Peter VVhitehorne. Imprinted at London : By VV. VVilliamson for Ihon [sic] VVight, 1573.
• Translation of: L'arte della guerra.
• Title within ornamental border.
• Illustrations are ranks and files of letters and punctuation marks.
• Translator identified probably as Henry Grantham. cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 351, p. 358 (NM-0055019)
• Ex copy is pt. 1 only.

Binding note

Ex copy in later calf.

Provenance

Ex copy is Gabriel Harvey's copy with his ms. notes.

Source acquisition

Purchase Estate of Lucius Wilmerding, Jr. 2003

References

• STC 17165, 4790
• Cockle 12b, 19

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

LCCN

nuc87614574

OCLC

27744697

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