| Ref No | EFP/094/A 094/1670/33 |
| Finding Number | A094/1670/33 |
| Title | The art of gunnery : Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of gunpowder, gun-match, the art of shooting in great and small ordnance: excellent ways to take heights, depths, distances, accessible, or inaccessible, either single or divers distances at one operation: to draw the map or plot of any city, town, castle, or other fortified place. To make divers sorts of artificiall fire-works, both for war and recreation; also to cure all such wounds that are curable, which may chance to happen by gunpowder or fire-works. 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: all the rules and directions in this book, being framed both with and without the help of arithmetick. By Nathanael Nye mathematician, master-gunner of the city of Worcester |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1670 |
| Description | Treatise of artificiall fire-works for war and recreation
With frontis. portrait (plate) of author signed: W. Hollar delin: et fecit aqua forti. Londini, 1644.; Text continuous despite pagination.; "A treatise of artificiall fire-works for war and recreation" has separate dated title page on leaf d5r; pagination and register are continuous.; -frontis.; 58796.; Treatise of artificiall fire-works for war and recreation.; Microfilm.; ESTCR16856. |
| Author | Nye, Nathaniel, b. 1624; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver |
| Subject | Gunnery; Gunpowder |
| Physical Description | [22], 88, 102, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates, (4 folded) : ill., port., tables ; 8j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed for William Leak, at the sign of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1670. |