An epitome of the whole art of war.. In two parts. The first of military discipline, containing the whole exercise of the pike and musquet, &c. with plain directions for the various postures. Also the drawing up of battalions, and way of forming them; with the art of doubling, wheeling, forming and drawing up an army into any figure. The way of conducting armies in hilly, woody or plain countries: of encampings, besiegings, giving of battle, &c. The second of fortification and gunnery, which shews the principles and practice of fortification, as now used, as well by the English, as several other European nations, (especially by their Majesties army) at the late sieges of Athlone, Galoway, Lymerick, &c. The measures and dimensions of rampires, parapets, moats, &c. Of casements, cittadels, crownworks, ravelins, &c. Of gunnery, the qualifications of a gunner. Of ordnance, morters, demy cannon, &c. with the manner of batteries, &c. All illustrated and further explained by 18. copper plates, curiously designed and engraven.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3236966
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. ;. 8vo. Accession no. 4489. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: early nineteenth-century inscription of Lt-Colonel Timins, to which has been added "to Captain Willes", possibly George Wickens Willes, RN, 1785-1846. Binding: eighteenth-century English red morocco, gilt sides, spine gilt and unlettered, edges gilt, combed marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691