[A collection of pamphlets, printed ephemera, and manuscript notes relating to antique firearms].
[v.s.].
[v.s.], [1814-1855]
8vo..
24 printed pamphlets, half disbound and loosely inserted in recent calf covers, the other half bound to match; together with manuscript copies of articles, tipped-in autographed letters, news clippings, and several other pieces of printed ephemera.
Highlights include:
A clutch of manuscript notes (approximately 8pp) of manuscript notes, tipped-in letters, and newspaper cuttings relating to the firearm (a bell-nosed blunderbuss) used in the notorious double murder at Stanfield Hall, Norwich, in 1848. The victims, Isaac Jermy and his son Isaac Jermy Jermy, were shot and killed on the porch and in the hallway of their stately home. The perpetrator James Blomfield Rush, their delinquent tenant farmer who had conducted a complex and devious scheme to defraud them of their property and their lives, was hanged at Norwich Castle on 21st April 1849.
The sole edition of British Army officer Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot's (1812-1877) Preliminary education for the profession of arms (London, 1856); a pamphlet proposing reforms to the teaching and examination of students in artillery and engineering disciplines.
An apparently unrecorded, impassioned, address The present proof company the bane of the gun trade (Birmingham, 1845) by William Greener (1806-1869) 'to the master, and journeymen gun makers' calling for the abolition of the Proof Company 'the sole cause of the falling off in the Birmingham Gun Trade' that is 'now only a money-getting institution'.
Remarks on the newly invented elliptical gun-barrels, and their advantages over the cylindrical ones in general use (Manchester, 1826), an apparently unrecorded pamphlet by John Beever of Higher Ardwick describing the 'superiority' of his patented design of shotgun.
Remarks on Captain Marshall's Gun Carriages, with the whole of the official reports to the French and English governments (London, 1831), a scarce explanation (more promotional than instructional) of an improved artillery mount to be fitted on naval vessels. COPAC records copies at two locations (BL and National Museums Scotland), OCLC adds one further (NMM).
Further details for this item are available upon request.
£ 2,000.00
Antiquates Ref: 26124
A clutch of manuscript notes (approximately 8pp) of manuscript notes, tipped-in letters, and newspaper cuttings relating to the firearm (a bell-nosed blunderbuss) used in the notorious double murder at Stanfield Hall, Norwich, in 1848. The victims, Isaac Jermy and his son Isaac Jermy Jermy, were shot and killed on the porch and in the hallway of their stately home. The perpetrator James Blomfield Rush, their delinquent tenant farmer who had conducted a complex and devious scheme to defraud them of their property and their lives, was hanged at Norwich Castle on 21st April 1849.
The sole edition of British Army officer Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot's (1812-1877) Preliminary education for the profession of arms (London, 1856); a pamphlet proposing reforms to the teaching and examination of students in artillery and engineering disciplines.
An apparently unrecorded, impassioned, address The present proof company the bane of the gun trade (Birmingham, 1845) by William Greener (1806-1869) 'to the master, and journeymen gun makers' calling for the abolition of the Proof Company 'the sole cause of the falling off in the Birmingham Gun Trade' that is 'now only a money-getting institution'.
Remarks on the newly invented elliptical gun-barrels, and their advantages over the cylindrical ones in general use (Manchester, 1826), an apparently unrecorded pamphlet by John Beever of Higher Ardwick describing the 'superiority' of his patented design of shotgun.
Remarks on Captain Marshall's Gun Carriages, with the whole of the official reports to the French and English governments (London, 1831), a scarce explanation (more promotional than instructional) of an improved artillery mount to be fitted on naval vessels. COPAC records copies at two locations (BL and National Museums Scotland), OCLC adds one further (NMM).
Further details for this item are available upon request.
