Projectile weapons of war and explosive compounds...
London.
Longman, Brown, and Co., 1859.
Fourth edition.
8vo.
xi, [1], 376, 24pp. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp.
A revised edition of John Scoffern's (1814-1882) popular history of the development of projectile weapons, first published in 1845.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 27333
