The genuine use and effects of the gunne : likewise to cut the rigging of a ship, to hit a mark as well upon ascents and descents, as upon the plain of the horizon : experimentally as mathematically demonstrated : with the making and use of granadoes, carcasses, and fire-balls

The genuine use and effects of the gunne : likewise to cut the rigging of a ship, to hit a mark as well upon ascents and descents, as upon the plain of the horizon : experimentally as mathematically demonstrated : with the making and use of granadoes, carcasses, and fire-balls

Genuine use of gunn.|Works of Mr. Robert Anderson, of gunnery, &c.|To hit a mark, as well upon ascents and descents, as upon the plain of the horizon : experimentally as mathematically demonstrated|Tables of projection, &c. : exactly calculated and their use exemplified|How to cut the rigging of a ship and proposals for the improvement of great artillery

London : Printed for Rich. Mount and Company ..., 1713.

[10], 36, 64, [2], 8, [8], 48 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., tables ; 22 cm. (4to)

L2000F522 1713

(OCoLC)45275058

Spine title: The genuine use of gunn.
Half title: The works of Mr. Robert Anderson, of gunnery, &c.
Separate t.p. & paging: "To hit a mark, as well upon ascents and descents, as upon the plain of the horizon : experimentally as mathematically demonstrated, London : Printed for Robert Morden ..., 1690; separate half title & paging: "Tables of projection, &c. : exactly calculated and their use exemplified"; "How to cut the rigging of a ship and proposals for the improvement of great artillery."
Signatures: [pi]¹ [A]4 B-E4 F² [2nd] A-H4 [3rd] [A]¹ B4 [4th] [A]4 B-G4.
"Warlike musick illustrated, in several consorts of phrygian flutes ...": p. [3rd] 43-48.
On half title: ms. note in an unidentified hand sketching the author's career as a silk weaver, mathematician and artillery author; ms. inscription: J. G. Harkness, M. General.
Bookplate: Wm. Granville Eliot, Esq. (pasted over a bookplate of William Martin, Esq.)

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