Publisher:
Washington, Government Printing Office : 1877
Seller ID: 1231
1st ed., 485 pp., plus 13 fold-out plates, one photographic plate, and a fold-out frontispiece. Rebound in maroon cloth. Text block is clean and tight with no foxing. One of the plates is split in half but intact. some of the other plates have small tears or stains, but not affecting image. Frontispiece is detached. View More...
First edition, 4to, ¼ leather marbled boards. (4), 157; (4), Illustrated with 56 pages of color engravings. Military pistols, rifles, and a few cannon. The first part only of Schmidt's classic work, lacking the separately published 1878 supplement. OCLC locates six copies of this first volume in the U.S.CONDITION: Good. Edges worn, corners rubbed, spine rubbed. Front hinge cracked but fully intact. The text block was printed on thin pulp paper; margins yellowed; a few chips in fep and title page. This condition extends to some of the 56 pp of tables, but about 2/3 were printed on better quali... View More...
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