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ROBINS, Benjamin (1706-1751) New Principles of Gunnery. London: F. Wingrave, 1805. 8vo. Restored half calf with tips, gilt-stamped designs on spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers and page edges. Illustrated, including one fold-out plate. One of the first and most influential books written on gunnery, introducing Newtonian physics to weapons of war. Provenance: Alexander Gordon (dated inscription on title page), Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (bookplate). Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet is best remembered today for his work with ballistics and gunnery. Throughout his career he devoted himself to the study of gunpowder, namely in improving the properties of black powder in order to allow for a slower burn time which would thus increase muzzle velocities. At the relatively young age of thirty-eight he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was knighted in 1893.