Item #97497 The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points. Robert BARRET.
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points
The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points

The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in Dialoguewise. Wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline, the Inconvenience thereof, the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines, a Redresse by due Regard had, the Fittest Weapones for our Moderne Warre, the Use of the Same, the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in Generall and in Particular, the Officers in Degrees, with their Severall Duties, the Imbattailing of Men in Formes now most in Use, with Figures and Tables to the same, with Sundrie other Martiall Points

London, Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1598.

Small folio, [viii], 247, [7] (glossary of foreign words) pages (some misnumbered, but complete) with dozens of woodcut diagrams, numerous others set up in letterpress, and a large folding leaf (pages 157-158) with woodcut illustrations of military encampments; with the woodcut printer's device on the title page and full-page coats of arms of the author and of Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke (the dedicatee).

STC 1500; Cockle 68 ('A Bibliography of English Military History Books up to 1642'; 'Sigs. in 6s ... A-Y; no O' suggests to us that his reference copy lacked the large folding leaf, signed O in our copy). Bound together with - but coming after it - EDMUNDS [EDMONDES], Clement: Observations upon the Five First Bookes of Cæsars Commentaries, setting fourth the Practise of the Art Military, in the Time of the Roman Empire. Wherein are handled all the Chiefest Points of their Discipline, with the True Reasons of every Part, together with such Instructions as may be drawn from their Proceedings, for the Better Direction of our Moderne Warres. London, Peter Short, 1600 [first edition]. Small folio, [iv], 199 pages plus 6 engraved plates (4 of them double-page). STC 7488; Cockle 71 ('This excellent and well-known exposition of Caesar was always popular.' The lengthy entry in the bibliography also describes the supplementary publication in 1604 of Books VI and VII [together with 'The Maner of Our Moderne Training'], as well as the second edition of 1609, incorporating all of the above and more). Contemporary laced-in full vellum several millimetres shorter than the text (at the bottom edge); ribbon ties missing; details of only the first volume written in ink on the spine; vellum a little marked and cockled, with some inoffensive staining confined mainly to the rear cover; trifling loss to a small section of the leading edge of the front cover; no endpapers (but as bound); nineteenth century ownership details in ink on the inside front cover; minor expert conservation to the frayed margins of the first two leaves (the first one being the title leaf of Edmunds), but no printed surface is affected; light quarter-elliptical tidemark to the inside bottom corner of the margins of all leaves, extending into the printed areas of just the plates in Edmunds; bottom third of the large folding plate in Barret expertly reattached; a few other lesser blemishes; overall, albeit an unpretentious volume, it retains much of its period authenticity.

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