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A History of Firearms From Earliest Times to 1914.
by CARMAN, W. Y.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1970 4th imp.. 8.5 x 5.5 ins. In maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w some rubbing to edges and corners. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Else a clean and tight copy. 207pp. 33 B&W illustrations within text. The author traces the use of firearms beginning with the earliest uses of instruments of taking actual fire to the enemy, then the development of gunpowder and other explosive propellants.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87120
- Title
- A History of Firearms From Earliest Times to 1914.
- Author
- CARMAN, W. Y.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1970 4th imp.
- Keywords
- Military Subjects CARMAN, W. Y.; A History of Firearms From Earliest Times to 1914, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1970, 4th imp, illustrated, dustwrapper, guns, weapons, arms, fire, explosive, gunpowder,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Price Clipped
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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