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Military tracts--Digges, Thomas ( c . 1543-1595) and Sir Dudley Digges (1582/3-1639). , Foure paradoxes, or politique discourses. 2 concerning militarie discipline, written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire. 2 of the worthinesse of warre and

Instructions for musters and armes , and the use thereof. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625 , [14pp.], illustration : woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initial, [ apparently unrecorded , STC only records editions from 1623 and 1626; cf. Cockle 99, 1623 edition], lacking (?blank) A1 (also not present in STC collation of 1623 and 1626 editions), A4 chipped at edges with loss to a few letters, margins cropped with loss to headlines and printed marginalia The military discipline wherein is most martially shone the order of drilling for ye musket and pike... set forth in postures. London: for Roger Daniell, 1623 , ff. [17], illustration : engraved throughout, architectural title and 67 vignette engravings of fighting positions on 17 sheets, [STC 794.5, recording 3 copies; Cockle 97], lacking ff. [4] and [12], small marginal chips and tears, margins cropped with loss to final line of text on first 2 leaves, light staining, a few unobtrusive scribbles Davies, Edward. The art of war, and Englands traynings; plainely demonstrating the dutie of a private souldier. London: Edward Griffin, 1619 , [10], 121 (i.e. 221), [1]pp., illustration : woodcut initials and headpieces, some manuscript annotations, [STC 6326, recording 3 copies; Cockle 92], lacking folding leaf between V2 and 3, title-page torn (with some loss, repaired), final leaf stained with a couple of closed tears, some small tears with loss to margins, some marginal staining Markham, Gervase (?1568-1637). The souldiers grammar: containing, the high, necessarie, and most curious rules of the art militaire. London: for William Shefford, 1626 , [8], 64pp., illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, some manuscript marginalia, [STC 17391; Cockle 109; Poynter 38.I], without part two, tear to I3 and I4 with loss (affecting a few words), some marginal staining, margins cropped with loss to manuscript marginalia 5 works in one volume, 4to (188 x 138mm.), binding ; contemporary blind-tooled calf, binding worn, upper hinge cracked