Author:
GREENER W.W.
Title:
The Science Of Gunnery, As Applied to the Use and Construction of Firearms
Price:
£150.00
Year:
1841
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Longman & Co.,
Summary:
xv 324 pages, AEG, 8 engraved plates + text illustrations, the plates and title page have offset marks presumably from early tissue guard? although no tissues present or signs of removal. Armorial bookplate to front paste down with the name in ink Arthur W Conway with a later name below S O Mopayn? this name again repeated on inner blank and again on ? title. Occasional pen underlining or note relating to the text in the preface. Bound in later but not recent full brown Morrocco in a french style binding by F Loraine, signed to inner rear cover front edge. With gilt tooled patterned boards and decorated spine, light rubbing to edges. A vg ? copy of the william Greeners second book. A work on ancient guns and arms, gunpowder, artillery, iron for gun barrels, proof of barrels , gun making and the science of gunnery barrels, its application to rifle and musket, shot, caps and wadding, with a final chapter on whale shooting with Greeners harpoon guns.
Ref:
13955
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