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Siege Artillery in the Campaigns Against Richmond, with Notes on the 15-Inch Gun, Including an Algebraic Analysis of the Trajectory of a Shot in Its Ricochets upon Smooth Water
by Brevet Brigadier General Henry L. Abbot
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Van Nostrand Publisher, 1868. Boards. Very Good +. An important Association copy: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, BRIGADIER GENERAL HENRY ABBOT, TO MAJOR WILLIAM H. NOBLE (1813-1894) on the front free endpaper. A solid, very presentable copy to boot of the uncommon 1868 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its red pebbled boards, with bright gilt-titling and insignia along the front panel. Very light wear at the spine crown, mild dusting to the endsheets and pastedowns. 6 large fold-out plates at the rear, titled as follows: Plate I: Untitled; Plate II: U.S. Siege and Field Rifle Projectiles 1864; Plate III: Confederate 8 Inch Rifle Projectiles; Plate IV: Confederate 7 Inch Rifle Projectiles; Plate V: Confederate 6.4 Inch Rifle Projectiles; and Plate VI: Confederate Siege and Field Rifle Projectiles. #14 in the "Professional Papers Corps of Engineers" series, part of a larger series studying, directly after the Civil War, the "Siege Artillery in the Campaigns in Virginia"
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20593
- Title
- Siege Artillery in the Campaigns Against Richmond, with Notes on the 15-Inch Gun, Including an Algebraic Analysis of the Trajectory of a Shot in Its Ricochets upon Smooth Water
- Author
- Brevet Brigadier General Henry L. Abbot
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- rare Civil War, rare Civil War gun books, rare gun books, rare Confederate histories, rare studies of Confederate guns, rare engineering
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
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Waccabuc, New York
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