scloppetaria considerations nature use rifled de corporal riflemen (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. A reprint of the edition of 1808, nice copy in dustjacket,

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Facsimile of the 1808 edition. Dustwrapper slightly ragged at the edges with tanned spine.

First edition. xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP The first edition of a treatise on the history, construction, and use of the rifle, commonly attributed to politician Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851). A second edition appeared in 1812. The Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen was a civilian rifle-shooting club founded, as with dozens of other patriotic organisations, during the Napoleonic invasion scare of 1803-04. Size: 8vo.

1st Edn,. xxiv 251 + 6-page index, errata, engraved frontis of standing rifleman shooting, 9 other plates and 3 target plates, some foxing to plates, and contents. Contemporary presentation inscription on FEP from Lord Berwick to Thomas Turner also later ownership name, signature of Thomas Turner to verso of the frontis and upper blank margin of the contents page, bound in a contemporary 1/2 black calf, rubbing to head of spine and corners. The author gives details of the advantages of the rifled barrel, theory of spiral motion powder, construction of the rifle, the lock sights, the bullet etc., A scarce and important title in the development of rifles. Riling 350.