Mauser Bolt Rifles, in Two Volumes

Maryland: Ludwig Olson, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1950. First Edition. Spiral-Bound Softcover. Good. Both volumes signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Front wrapper of first volume lightly stained, rear wrapper of second volume lightly stained (though in fewer places than the first). 1950 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 107 pp., paginated continuously, with unnumbered black-and-white photograph pages. Volume 1: A description of Mauser military bolt action rifles and ammunition adapted to them. Also includes a chapter on Mauser history. Volume 2: Includes a description of Mauser high power sporting rifles and cartridges as well as various models of .22 Mausers. Also compares the original Mauser with rifles copied from it. "Mauser are a German arms manufacturer, maker of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to present. Their designs were built for the German armed forces but have been exported and licensed to a number of countries since the later Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, as well as being a popular civilian firearm. In the late twentieth century, Mauser continued to make sporting and hunting rifles. In the 1990s it became a subsidiary of Rheinmetall. Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH was split off and continues making rifles, while the Rheinmetal subsidiary, called Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH made other products for a time before being merged into Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh. The Mauser name has also sometimes been licensed by other companies.