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• New invention of shooting fire-shafts in long-bowes. (London : Printed by H. L[ownes] for Iohn Bartlet, at the gilt Cup in Cheape-side, Anno Dom. M.D.c.xxviii. [1628]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The double-armed man, by the new inuention briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieued by our Brittish bowmen: with seuerall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. / By W.N. archer. ([London] : Printed [by Miles Flesher] for I. Grismand, at the signe of the Gun in Pauls Alley, 1625), by William Neade (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The proclamacion made and de[vised by the] kynges hyghnesse our soueraygne lorde and his honorable counsaile ... ([London : P[er] me Robert Pynsonu[m], [1528]]), by England. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Laws, etc. (Public general acts) (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie., Anno Dom. 1608), by England and Wales and England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (Public general acts). Abridgments (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1619), by England and Wales and England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (Public general acts). Abridgments (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXVIII. [1628]), by England and Wales and England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Flat Bow (1936), by W. Ben Hunt and John J. Metz (illustrated HTML at archerylibrary.com)
• Der Afrikanische Pfeil: Eine Anthropogeographische Studie (in German; Leipzig: O. Schmidt, 1899), by Karl Weule
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• Hunting With the Bow and Arrow, by Saxton T. Pope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers (Washington: GPO, 1894), by Otis T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of bows and arrows (University of California press, 1923), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern methods of arrow-release (s.n., 1885), by Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Additional notes on arrow release. (Peabody museum, 1922), by Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pfeilgifte; nach eigenen toxikologischen und ethnologischen Untersuchungen (J.A. Barth, 1923), by Louis Lewin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turkish archery and the composite bow; a review of an old chapter in the chronicles of archery and a modern interpretation. (The author, 1947), by Paul E. Klopsteg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yahi archery (University of California Press, 1918), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poisons de flèches et poisons d'épreuve (Vigot, 1913), by Émile Perrot and Émile Vogt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bogen und bogenschütze bei den Griechen mit besonderer rücksicht auf die denkmäler bis zum ausgang des archaischen stils (B. Hilz, 1910), by Anton Schaumberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of archery (A. S. Barnes and company, incorporated, 1936), by Dave Craft and Cia Craft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of bows and arrows (University of California press, 1923), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The archer's bow in the Homeric poems. An attempted diagnosis. (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1921), by Henry Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hunting with the bow & arrow (The James H. Barry co., 1923), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other oriental bows of mediaeval and later times (Longmans, Greens, and Co., 1907), by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Telḫîs-i rasâʾil el-rumāt (Dār ut-Ṭıbâa el-Āmire, 1847), by Muṣṭafâ Kânî (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bows and arrows for boys (The Bruce publishing company, 1930), by George C. Decker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hunting with the bow and arrow (Putnam, 1947), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bogen und pfeil bei den völkern des altertums (A. Hölder, 1913), by Edmund Bulanda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archery. (New York, 1941), by Boy Scouts of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über bogen und pfeil, den gebrauch und die verfertigung derselben bei den Arabern und Türken. (K.K. Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1852), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die afrikanischen Bögen, ihre Verbreitung und Verwandtschaften. Nebst einem Anhang: über die Bögen Neu-Guineas, der Veddah und der Negritos. Eine anthropogeographische Studie. (S. Hirzel, 1893), by Friedrich Ratzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the history construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management Turkish and other oriental bows of mediaeval and later times. (Longmans, Green & co., 1907), by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein homerischer Rundschild mit einem Bügel. (A. Hölder, 1909), by Wolfgang Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Gebrauch von Pfeil und Bogen auf den Grossen Sunda-Inseln (Buchhandlung und Druckerei vormals E.J. Brill, 1909), by Anton W. Nieuwenhuis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bogen und pfeil in Central-Brasilien ... (Druck vom Bibliographischen institute, 1895), by Herrmann Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• North American bows, arrows, and quivers (s.n., 1893), by Otis T. Mason and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bow-pullers of antiquity. ([Salem, Mass., 1894), by Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• North American bows, arrows, and quivers. (Gov't Print. Off., 1894), by Otis T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times (Longmans, Green, and co., 1984), by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die bogen der Oceanier. (F. Dümmler, 1901), by Leo Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust)
• North American bows, arrows, and quivers (J.M. Carroll, 1983), by Otis T. Mason and Gerard Fowke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bows and arrows in central Brazil (s.n., 1898), by Hermann Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Bogen und Pfeil, den Gebrauch und die Verfertigung derselben bei den Arabern und Türken (Kaiserlich-Königlichen hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1853), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bows and arrows (Southwest Museum, 1950), by Clarence Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hunting with the bow & arrow (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1925), by Saxton T. Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archery tackle; how to make and how to use it (Manual Arts Press, 1936), by Adolph Shane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flat bow (Bruce Pub. Co., 1948), by W. Ben Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archery; making tackle and shooting (Chicago Park District, 1937), by Chicago Park District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bows and arrows; how they are best made for all kinds of target shooting, accessories and competitions (The Macmillan company, 1943), by James Duff and Edward Cave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glues for wood in archery uses. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 1952), by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times, by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (Gutenberg ebook)

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