A BOUND COLLECTION OF 21 PAMPHLETS, RELATING TO ARTILLERY, NAVEL GUNS AND GUNNERY BALLISTICS NAVAL MATTERS MOSTLEY WITH REFERRENCES TO GUNS ETC.

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Year: circa 1845-1868

Publisher: various publishers

Summary: various publishers, bound in a contemporary half calf, the binding rubbed but remains tight. A single collection mostly relating to naval issues with gunnery and artillery, there is no indication who assembled the collection but would assume a naval gunnery officer. Below is s list of the titles and authors dates and publishers if you require more information, please contact us. 1/ Treadwell Daniel, A Short Account Of An Improved Cannon And The Machinery And Process Employed In Its Manufacture. 1845 Metcalf And Company Cambridge, 23pp One copy located at the British Library 2/ Blakely R.A Capt. T.A. A Few Remarks On The Science Of Gunnery 1855 (Private Circulation) 1855 James Ridgeway 16pp. including one plate Riling 654 3/ / Treadwell Daniel, On The Practicability Of Constructing Cannon Of Great Calibre, Capable Of Enduring Long-Continued use Under Full Charges Metcalf And Company Cambridge 1856 35pp Riling 678 4/ Lane Fox, Lieut ? Colonel, On The Improvement Of The Rifle As A Weapon For General Use. W Clowes & Sons, 1858 46pp folding plate presentation inscriptions from the author to title page. 5/ Of print from Proceedings' Of The Royal Irish Academy Science 1858 -1860 pp73 - pp198 includes articles and letters relating to Capt. R.A Blakey. 6/Blakey Capt. R.A The Rights Of Priority In The Principles And Method Of Constructed Ordnance In Superimposed Rings With Initial Tensions Being Communications Made To The Roya LiRISH Academy 1860, H. Gill Dublin 33pp. 7/Boxer R.A. Lieut- Colonel Remarks On The System Proposed By The Royal Commissioners For The Defence Of The Country.1862 R Rixon Woolwich (Printed For Private Circulation) 29pp 8/ Mallet Robert, On Muzzle Swivelling And Hydraulic Gun Mounting, no date circa 1862 Patents Office 31pp text illustrations. 9/Sartorius Admiral Sir G. R., Costal Defences And Naval Warfare, 1862 James Ridgeway 117pp 10/Russell J. Scott, The Fleet Of The Future In 1862 Or England Without A Fleet, 1862 second edition, Longmans Green Longmans & Roberts 83 pp 11/Harris, Sir W. Snow, National Defences The Great Question Of The Day, 1862 John Weale 64pp with three coloured maps. 12/Catalogue Of Books For 1861 On Architecture And Engineering &c Published And Sold By John Weale 32pp + Improved Catalogue 1862 8pp 13/Britten Bashley, Rifled Ordnance, Remarks On The Report Of The Select Committee On Competitive Rifled Guns Published By The War Office May 1863, W. Mitchell Military Publisher, 15pp with folding coloured diagram. 14/ Catapult A Few Remarks On The Ordnance Committees And The Great Gun Controversy. "By Catapult". 1863 W. Mitchell Military Publisher, 15pp. 15/Inglefield E.A., Proposed Plan For Working The Heaviest Ordnance on Board Armour-Plated Ships. With Complete Protection For The Crew, circa1864 Webb and Hunt Liverpool Printed For Private Circulation Only, 10pp with 4 plates. 16/Coles Cowper. Letters From Captain Cowper Coles To The Secretary Of The Admiralty On Sea Going Turret- Ships. 1865 James Griffin And Co, Portsea 78pp with 4 folding plates presentation inscription from the author to the title page. 17/ Halstead Rear -Admiral, The Navy Unarmed Still. An Appeal To Both Houses Of Parliament In A Series Of Letters To The Daily News. 1865 86pp. 18/ Palliser William, Trial Of A 32-Pounder Cast-Iron Gun Converted into A 64-Pounder Rifled Gun Of 60 CWT, And Tested To Destruction, At Shoeburyness, On The 15th August 1866. W. O. Mitchell, Military Publishers (For Private Circulation) 16pp + 3 photographic plates. One copy located at the B.L 19/Moncrieffs Protected Barbette System, From Proceedings Of The Royal Artillery Institution vol VI p19, 14pp text illustrations. 20/Moncrieff Captain, Royal Institution Of Great Britan Weekley Evening Meeting May 7, 1869. On The Moncrieff System Of Working Artillery As Applied To Coast Defence 16pp text illustrations. 21/ First Report Of The Committee Of The British Association On The Stability Propulsion And Sea-Going Qualities Of Ships. Printed separately for the use of The Institution Of Naval Architects , Exeter 1869, 71pp one plate. ?1450

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