Site with links to dozens of rare artillery books online

[cannonmn]

Many of the better titles are in French or other languages, but some of those have hundreds of drawings, worth a look even if you can't read much of the text.  The list has military books, many not about artillery, so you have to look to pick out the artillery titles.

Some really good ones are under "Regulations/Manuals..." about halfway down.

The 3 volumes by Napoleon are full of plates.  Dahlgren's "Boat Armament..." is a classic, in English yet.  The book by DuTeil is a classic.

http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/bibliographic/internetbooks/c_internetbooks1.html

[seacoastartillery]

     Thank you once again, John.  Another excellent treasure trove of artillery books.  By now we have purchased 8 or 9 from your various lists and have always been pleased with the quality and variety contained therein.  We noticed that many of these are available at a very modest cost, being reprints or original books of just fair condition.  Lately Mike and I both have enjoyed reading one of your recent recommendations, Arming the Fleet by Spencer Tucker.  Yes, I must admit, it was I who snagged the lower cost one of the 6 available.  When it comes to good artillery books, you must "strike while the iron is hot".  Thank you very, very much for continuing to share these important resources with us!

Regards,

Tracy and Mike

[shooter2]

Excellent, I would also like to thank cannonmn for his contributions to expanding our libraries.  I also jumped on Arming the Fleet a while back via Abebooks and got a great copy fairly cheaply.  I find there is no such thing as too much information.

Shooter 2