The Crossbow; Mediaeval and Modern Military and Sporting Its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and an Appendix on The Catapult, Balista & Turkish Bow
by Ralph Payne-Gallwey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: The Holland Press, 1976. Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 26 x 19.5 cm. Royal octavo. xxii 328pp 24pp 23pp. Blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket. There is some spotting to the boards. Some chipping to the jacket. Foxing to half-title page.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63218
- Title
- The Crossbow; Mediaeval and Modern Military and Sporting Its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and an Appendix on The Catapult, Balista & Turkish Bow
- Author
- Ralph Payne-Gallwey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Impression
- Publisher
- The Holland Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...