THE CROSSBOW
by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
(Subject: Small Arms, Personal Weapons, Equipment & Accoutrements) Medieval and Modern, Military and Sporting. The most detailed of studies on the subject and a unique reference source. Covers the construction, history, development and use of the Crossbow, plus related weapons, from siege engines, balistas and catapults of the ancients, to the Turkish bow and the Chinese repeating crossbow. Extensive illustrations range from contemporary battle pictures to scale constructional plans. The book appears to have been rebound with exercise paper between text pages, creating a thick and heavy manual. Some writing in pencil inside end board (Published: 1971) (Publisher: Holland Press) (Pagination: xxi + 328pp plus apppendices of 24 & 23pp, illustrations. Lined exercise paper.) (Condition: Green Boards. Good.) UL-XXXXXX
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- Military History Books (GB)
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- 9219-01
- Title
- THE CROSSBOW
- Author
- Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Small Arms, Personal Weapons, Equipment & Accoutrements Medieval and Modern, Military and Sporting. The most detailed of studies on the subject and a unique reference source. Covers the construction, history, development and use of the Crossbow, plus
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- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.