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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1864. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Moderate nicks and tears to page edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
The Story of the Guns by Tennent, Sir J. Emerson - 1864
by Tennent, Sir J. Emerson
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The Story of the Guns
by Tennent, Sir J. Emerson
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First edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. London. 1864. Octavo. Half title, title, xxii, 364pp. Frontispiece, 3 further engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt to spine, blind tooled bordering rules to boards, bevelled edges. Original brown endpapers. Binder's plate to rep: Edmonds & Remnants London. Edges untrimmed. Occasional light spotting. Two crossed through signatures dated 1865 and 1867 to title page. Lightly bumped and rubbed to corners and edges.
Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869) Politician, traveller and author.
Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869) Politician, traveller and author.
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- Publisher Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1864
- Size 8vo
- Keywords Military, Artillery, Musket, Rifle, Cannon, Armstrong, Whitworth
- Size 8vo
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The Story of the Guns.
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THE STORY OF THE GUNS
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(England): The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. New Introduction By W. S. Curtis. 364pp., green cloth with gilt printing to spine. 7 1/4" x 5". Very Good in a chipped dj. .
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The story of the guns
by TENNENT, Sir J. Emerson
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. xxii, 364pp. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, three plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight wear to extremities. Hinges starting, loss to top corner of blank RFEP, bookplate of Lord Raglan to FEP, recent armorial bookplate to recto of FFEP of Cefntilla, family seat of the Barons Raglan. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to half-title, 'Raglan (i.e. Richard Henry Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan), From The Author'. Sir James Emerson Tennent's (1804-1869) history of the development of firearms and ordnance in the British military forces. The first part concerns the improvements made to the rifled musket under the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo, to the introduction of the Whitworth rifle following the Crimean War. The second part catalogues rifled ordnance from cast-iron cannon to a detailed account of the trialling of the Whitworth Gun.…
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