The Volunteer Rifleman And The Rifle, In Three Parts: Science, Practice and the Mechanical Aids
Author:
BOUCHER John
Year:
1860
Edition:
3rd greatly enlarged Edn,
Publisher:
W O Mitchell Military Library
Summary:
XVIII 183+35+38+40 pages, frontis of a rifleman, some offsetting to tile, 2 folding diagrams + 2 plates, presentation inscription on top margin of title page to Colonel Somerset with the author's compliments, original blue blind stamped cloth, gilt title to upper boards, light rubbing to head of spine. The 3 separately paginated lectures at the rear cover: 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. A difficult title to find.
Ref:
7996
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