or the Young
Artillery-Man.
Wherein is Discoursed and Shown
the Postures both of Musket and Pike
the Exactest way, &c.
Together with the Exercise of the Foot in their Motions,
with much variety: As also diverse and severall Formes for the
Embattelling small or greater Bodies, demonstrated by the num-
ber of a single Company, with their Reducements: Very ne-
cessary for all such as are Studious in
the Art Military.
Whereunto is also added the Postures and Beneficiall Use of the Halfe-pike joyned
with the Musket. With the way to draw up the Swedish Brigade.
The fourth Edition, Newly Revised and Enlarged,
By
Lieut. Coll. William Bariffe.
Psalm.144.I.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to warre, and my fingers to fight.
LONDON, Printed by John Dawson. 1643."
Original leather boards and partial spine. Page edges frayed. No owners marks, but blank pages filled with later (19th C?) notes referring to interesting language with page numbers.
166 pages plus contents (at end).
See "Anima'dversions of Warre", by Robert Ward for a slightly later military manual, also printed by Dawson.
GATE Club 2017.
See "A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642", Maurice J. D. Cockle #133, which lists a third edition from this printer in this year.
"Early Military Books in the University of Michigan Libraries" #139 lists this edition.