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GARDNER J.Starkie |
Armour In England From The Earliest Times To The Reign Of James The First: Foreign Armour In England
1897-1898.
1st Edn,.
Seeley & CO.
100 96 pages, 2 volumes in one, large 8vo, illus in colour and black and white from photographs drawings etc ,. gilt crest to upper board, vg.
[9146] |
£80.00 |
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Goldstein Erik |
18th Century Weapons of the Royal Welsh Fuziliers from Flixton Hall
2002.
1st Edn.
Thomas Publications.
Gettysburg U.S.A.
126 pages, 4to illustrated in b/w from photographs drawings etc, pictorial card covers a fine copy. Investigation of the origins of firearms and edged weapons that are now exhibited in the Governor's Palace at Colonial Williamsburg, originally housed at Flixton Hall in Suffolk England.
[22830] |
£45.00 |
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Goldstein Erik and Mowbray Stuart |
The Brown Bess: An Identification Guide and Illustrated Study of Britain's Most Famous Musket
2010.
rep.
Mowbray Publishing.
Woonsocket, RI U.S.A.
160 pages, Landscape 4t0 illustrated throughout in colour from photographs. Pictorial card covers, a fine copy. Finely detailed illustrations showing various guns.
[23201] |
£42.00 |
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GORDON Anthony |
A treatise on the science of defence for the sword, bayonet, and pike, in close action
1805.
1st Edn.
B McMillan printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
66mpages, 4to 19 plates 1 folding of line drawings, some erratic browning and toning. Bookplate and bequeathed label and stamp to the front paste down. Recased in the contempoary ? calf boards with later matching spine. According to Hutton, as quoted in Thimm "This is the earliest known work giving any idea of attack and defence with the bayonet." The plates show the use of the bayonet in attack and defence as well as the sword in close action on foot and mounted.
[23111] |
£680.00 |
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GORMAN Major J.T. |
Modern Weapons Of War
1942.
1st Edn,.
158 pages, illus, vg
[9865] |
£15.00 |
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Government Report |
Reports on Alleged Failures Of Cavalry Swords And Pistols At SUAKIN
1889.
1st.
HMSO.
7 pages, 4to printed paper covers. The government report derailing individual failures and report of tests on the swords, and pistol failures.
[23199] |
£25.00 |
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