Military.- [Helm (Franz)] Armamentarium principale oder Kriegsmunition und Artillerey Buch, title with engraved pictorial frame (shaved at fore-edge), 4 engraved plates and several illustrations in text, lacking final blank, some leaves very browned, Frankfurt, J.Amman, 1625 bound with [Ufano (Diego) Archeley, das ist Grundlicher und Eygentlicher Bericht von Geschütz und aller Zugehör...], lacking title and all 29 plates, [Zutphen, A.Jansson], [1630] and Suttinger (Daniel) Des in Wien todten der Römischen Käyserl. Majestät Weyland Oberst-Lieutenant und Ober-Ingenieur George Rimpler..., 11 engraved plates, most folding, Nuremberg, Martin Endter, 1696 [slip pasted over imprint], together 3 works in 1 vol., the first and last with contemporary ink signature of J.Hopkey and with his manuscript index to front free endpaper, trimmed, handsome eighteenth century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with green roan label, slightly rubbed, small nick to head of spine, folio
⁂ An interesting group of scarce German works on artillery and fortification.
J.Hopkey, chief firemaster at the Royal Arsenal.
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