- Backstrip partly restored; wr. sl. frayed and worn.
= With an introduction by Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun who was arrested, tried and executed as a Trotskyist counter-revolutionary in 1938, upon which the book was withdrawn from circulation in the Soviet Union. On the backwrapper a nice photomontage depiction of the capitalist world order.
- Wrappers doubled, reattached and sl. dustsoiled/ stained.
Ehrenburg, I. Rasskazy (Stories). Leningrad, Priboi, 1928, 81,(2)p., orig. wr. (by ?).
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Wrappers w. some flattened folds and creases; sm. stamps and tiny piece of sellotape on backwr.
- Backstrip worn.
- Wrappers sl. dustsoiled and worn along edges.
= Emigré Russian artistic periodical. A total of 14 issues was published between 1921 and 1926. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005 p.127.
- Bookblock splitting. Nevertheless a fine copy.
- Some library stamps and tickets.
= System designed to simulate artillery fire on the battle field, in order to measure fire ranges etc. Its inventor, André Baranoff, was a French army lieutenant of Russian descent. Rare.
AND 13 other small publications, all French, i.a. GÉNÉRAL LUZEUX, Les mitrailleuses dans la guerre moderne (Paris, n.d. (±1900), orig. wr.) and H. MORLIÈRE, Notes sur le Canon de 75 et son règlement (ibid./ Nancy, 1909, ills., orig. wr.).
- Loose(ning); owner's entry on title-p. and frontwr., backstrip worn.
= Rare gun manual with nice Jugendstil decorative elements. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
AND 3 other gun manuals with similar decoration.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned and foxed; lower hinge strengthened w. scotch tape. Covers sl. worn; shelf ticket on spine.
= Pohler III, p.672. On the production and utilization of Congreve rockets. The author was an engineer and commander of the Polish mounted artillery. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- The text only, without the plate vol.; sl. foxed; a few stamps. Joints split(ting); backstrip loosening at spine ends; covers chafed.
= Gerrare 612.
Saltzer, C.F. Versuche über das Schießpulver. Karlsruhe, C.F. Müller, 1823, 56p., 1 fold. engr. plate (of 2), contemp. marbled wr., sm. 8vo.
- Lacks one plate; foxed. Spine-ends worn. = Gerrare 608.
- A few scattered owner's stamps; edges of dustwrappers occas. sl. worn.
- Sl. yellowed. Covers chafed.
AND 3 others in 4 vols., i.a. A. FLECK, Maschinengewehre. Ihre Technik und Taktik (Berlin, 1909/ 1914, 2 vols., plates, orig. hcl./ modern hmor., orig. wr. pres.).
- Sm. ticket and stamp on frontwr. A fine copy.
Manuel de la mitrailleuse automatique Armstrong Whitworth-Colt (Brevets Browning). Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Whitworth & Co., 1927, 54p., 5 fold. plates, ills., orig. wr. - AND 4 others.
- Occas. trifle foxed; newspaper clipping taped to first free endpaper. Spine w. some restorations.
= Lipperheide Ra93. From the library of Henk Visser, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. The famous collection of armory assembled by the Duc de Dino (1843-1917) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1904 (after it was first announced to be auctioned) for the then enormous sum of £80.000.
- Sl. foxed; owner's stamps on title-p.
AND 2 others, i.a. E. HAENEL, Alte Waffen (Berlin, 1920, ills., orig. silverstamped cl.).