American Inventions And Improvements In Breech-Loading Small Arms, Heavy Ordnance, Machine Guns, Magazine Arms, Fixed Ammunition, Pistols, Projectiles, Explosives And Other Munitions Of War Including A Chapter On Sporting Arms
Author:
NORTON Charles B.
Year:
1880
Publisher:
Chaplin and Gould
City of Publication:
Springfield, Mass, USA
Summary:
407 pages, 4pp adverts, full page + text illus and diagrams, 3 chromo lithograph plates and 3 steel engraving of factories, slight damp mark to lower margin edge of the plates also to previous page not affecting any other page or plate, recased in the publishers red cloth, spine showing loss relayed, cover evenly faded, gilt vignette of cannon to upper board. 2 bookplates for William Courtney Overstreet and Malcolm F Macfarlane to FEP. Much on American breech loading small arms also a sketch on the rise and progress in the manufacture of heavy ordnance and projectiles.
Ref:
15409
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