The Italian Vetterli System
Author:
Wilsey Robert
Year:
2007
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Trustee of the Royal Armouries
City of Publication:
Leeds
Summary:
56 pages, 4to illustrated throughout with photographs showing the guns, marks etc, old prints, and line drawings. Publishers pictorial card covers, as new. The Vetterli was one of the first bolt-action rifles to be introduced into military service in company with the Berdan, the Gras and the Mauser and this book traces the history of the adoption of a centre-fire rifle by Italy.
Ref:
24282
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