The Volunteer Rifleman And The Rifle, In Three Parts: Science, Practice and the Mechanical Aids
Author:
BOUCHER John
Year:
1859
Edition:
2nd greatly enlarged Edn,
Publisher:
W.O. Mitchell Military Library
Summary:
xviii -183+35+38+40 pages, frontis of a rifleman, offsetting to the title page 2 folding diagrams + 2 plates, armorial bookplate to the front paste down with a ownership inscription. Publishers blue blind stamped rubbing to the base of the spine. Three separately paginated lectures: On the rise and progress of the "Minie Expansion": On the comparative merits of the rifled small arms of England, France and the United States: On the falsity of the principles on which the present service wood-plug ammunition is constructed. Riling 631.
Ref:
22836
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