Military
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A Treatise of severall Geometricall Problems which are most necessary for the regular and irregular fortifications; also, a Treatise of Fortification, 1688
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.05.36
Scope and Contents
'A Treatise of severall Geometricall Problems which are most necessary for the regular and irregular fortifications.' Also, a Treatise of Fortification. The problems and figures face one another on opposite pages. Opposite the 43rd leaf is a folding copper engraving, exhibiting the profile of the defences of a town. The name of Harrison is on the first fly-leaf.
Dates:
1688
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From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
German Manual of Ordnance
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8725
Scope and Contents
Treatises on ordnance, artillery and military medicine. The front pastedown is marked 'Ex Biblioth: Cronburgii Anno. 1700'.
Dates:
1590-1620 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds — Box MS Add.9498: Box 1
Lionel Dunsterville (1865-1946): Letters to his sister May
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9498
Scope and Contents
This collection of correspondence of his youngest sister May (later Mrs Lionel Armitage), consists substantially of letters from Lionel Dunsterville, covering schooldays with Kipling at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, and extending up to the time of his marriage in 1897. Many letters include plans or amusing sketches, and some from Dunsterville as a schoolboy are written in blood or secret inks. Kipling features intermittently - in the schoolboy series there is one certain...
Dates:
1875-1922 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).