Book about Spanish Armada and the cannons in it.

[cannonmn]

Was looking for Spanish weight info and ran into this book.  In the preview you get below, you can go to appendix 2 where there are descriptions and drawings of cannons found on Armada ships.

I quickly figgered it was something I had to have so with an Amazon account, any book listed is exactly two clicks from being in the mail, and that's what just occurred.  I had a choice of used ones for under $10. to a new one for under $25. so I splurged this time.  Often if there's a used one listed in good condition at a good savings, I'll get that one, like I did the other day for "Surfboats and Horse Marines."

http://books.google.com/books?id=_ysl3KVnYDUC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=spanish+cannon+weight+markings&source=bl&ots=PXdwsHqXzG&sig=c9dATWaIDn94IQ_N-GPbtSuDEhY&hl=en&ei=cSe-SfqaH8S-tgfbnoz3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA269,M1

[Bob Smith]

Hope you enjoy; I saw Colin Martin for the first time in many years (and since he had a heart attack a year or so ago) at the Conference in Venice last December, and he was looking very spry- and at home, since Venice in the grip of twice daily flooding; good place for an underwater archaeologist. I think his book the most sensible on the guns of the Armada period.

Bob Smith

[cannonmn]

I think his book the most sensible on the guns of the Armada period.

Thanks, that's most helpful to have the comments of a peer, I couldn't find a review of his second book.   The first one, a paperback of 1988, was apparently a first effort, and what I bought was the second book, dated 1999.  The older general sort of histories of the Armada never interested me much, but this one gets down to hard facts and specific cannons, so I knew I must have it.