The art of gunnery
Subtitle: Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of gunpowder, guu-match [sic], 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
Contributors: Nye, Nathaniel, b. 1624.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1856:12
Publisher: printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates
Published: 1648
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Gunnery -- Early works to 1800; Gunpowder -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation
Notes: With a frontispiece portrait of Nye, engraved, woodcut illustrations, and 4 non-conjugate leaves (text and folding tables) sewn in

"The art of gunnery. Chap. 38." begins 2nd pagination and register; text is continuous

"A treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation." has separate dated title page (1647); pagination and register are continuous (2nd series)

Reproduction of the original in the Gonville and Caius College Library, Cambridge

Wing (2nd ed.) N1482

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1856:12).