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NYE, NATHANIEL. The Art of Gunnery. 3 folding woodcut plates; folding letterpress table. [24], 88; 102 pages, including etched frontispiece portrait of the author by Wenceslaus Hollar. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 160x102 mm, contemporary sheep, heavily worn, top of spine chipped; occasional soiling, scattered minor stains. London: William Leak, 1648
Scarce second edition of an artillery manual first published the year before, including a section on military and recreational pyrotechnics. Philip N090.2; Taylor (Tudor & Stuart), pages 221-22; Wing N1482.
