1 Abridgement of the English military discipline, 4 editions, 1676, 1684, 1685, 1686

2 Acquaviva, De venatione et de aucupio, Naples, 1519, old red goatskin

3 Adriani, De militiae laudibus oratio, Basel, 1518, later boards

4 Aegidius (Columna) Romanus, De regimine principum, Rome, 1482, later wooden boards

5 Aelianus Tacticus, translated by Bingham, London, 1616-1631, 2 volumes, calf

6 Aelianus and Polybius, La milice des grecs et romains, Paris, [1615], contemporary vellum

7 Alberghetti, Compendio della fortificatione, Venice, 1694, modern patterned paper boards

8 Alghisi | Delle fortificationi, [Venice], 1570, green vellum

9 Alimari, Instruttioni militari, Nuremberg, 1692, calf-backed red boards

10 Anderson, The genuine use and effects of the gunne, 1674, bound with 2 others by the same author, contemporary calf

11 Appian of Alexandria, An auncient historie of the Romanes warres, London, 1578, later red morocco

12 Appier and Thybourel, Recueil de plusieurs machines militaires, Pont-à-Mousson, 1620, vellum

13 Appier, La Pyrotechnie, Pont-à-Mousson, 1630, reversed calf

14 Archery; Wood, Bowman's glory, 1691, contemporary morocco gilt; Ascham, Toxophilus, 1788; English archer, c.1780

15 Archery, volume containing various printed and manuscript items, early 19th century

16 Army lists and other works, 5 volumes, 1684-1742, including a Prospect of Hounslow Heath

17 Artillery, Rivault, Les elemens de l'artillerie, 1608; La Fontaine, Devoirs des officiers de l'artillerie, 1675, 2 vols

18 Artillery, 9 French 18th century vol., by Belidor, Le Blond, Diderot, Papacino d'Antoni, Scheel, and others

19 Artillery, French, 18 volumes, 18th and 19th century

20 Artillery and fireworks, 2 works, by Rivault and Malthus, contemporary vellum

21 Artillery, a collection of 6 works in Italian, by Capobianco, Collado, Moretti and others, seventeenth century

22 Artillery, Seventeenth-century illustrated Italian manuscript about geometry and artillery, carta rustica

23 Artillery, Seventeenth-century Italian illustrated manuscript treatise about artillery and cannons, c1673

24 Artillery, works in Italian, by Alberghetti, Bossi, Gentilini, Papacino d'Antoni, Sardi, Zonta, 6 volumes

25 Ascham, Toxophilus, London, 1571, modern red morocco

26 Ascham, Toxophilus, London, 1589, modern vellum

27 Babington, Pyrotechnia, London, 1635, contemporary calf

28 Barret, The Theorike and practike of moderne warres, London, 1598, contemporary calf

29 Barry, A Discourse of Military Discipline, Brussels, 1634, later half calf

30 Basta, Il mastro di campo generale, Venice, 1606, contemporary calf with arms of De Thou

31 Basta, Le Gouvernement de la cavallerie legiere, Hanau, 1614, half red morocco

32 Basta, Mastro di campo generale, Frankfurt, 1617, modern vellum

33 Baudouin, Exercice de l'infanterie françoise, Paris, 1755, mottled calf gilt

34 Belluzzi, Nuova inventione di fabricar fortezze, Venice, 1598, vellum, Philip of Hesse's copy

35 Bentivoglio, History of the Warrs of Flanders, 1654, translated by Monmouth, with Speed's map

36 Bernard, Remarks on modern fortification, trans. Horneck, 1738, Christie Miller copy in contemporary red morocco

37 Bibliography, four works by Cockle, Ayala, Almirante and Guarnieri

38 Binning, A light to the art of gunnery, 2 copies, 1676 and 1689

39 Biringucci, Pirotechnia, Venice, 1550, later vellum-backed carta rustica

40 Blackwell, A compendium of military discipline, 1726, plates by Hogarth, red morocco by Zaehnsdorf

41 Blagrave, Baculum familliare, catholicon sive generale, London, 1590, modern wrappers

42 Blandy, The castle, or picture of pollicy, London, 1581, modern red morocco

43 Blome, The Gentleman's Recreations, 1710-1709, contemporary calf

44 Boillot, Modelles artifices de feu, Chaumont, 1598, vellum

45 Boillot, Artifices de feu, Strassburg, 1603, later half calf

46 Bourdin, Seventeenth-century French illustrated manuscript of two works on military architecture and fortifications

47 Boxel, Vertoogh van de Kryghs-Oeffeninge, The Hague, 1673, vellum

48 Boyer, Draughts of... fortified towns of Europe, London, 1701, contemporary sheep