2230 - 2322 GUNS and MILITARIA
- 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.).
= Contains fine views of Kampen and its former military barracks.
= Illustrated history of the Belgian weapon manufacturer on occasion of the company's 75 jubilee.
Brunisholz, A. and Hildebrandt, C. Die Geschichte der Kriegsmaterialverwaltung. L'histoire de l'intendance du matériel de guerre. 1850-1975. Bern, Kriegsmaterialverwaltung, 1977, 295p., ills., German and French text in columns, orig. gilt rexine, 4to.
= Nicely illustrated manuals, i.a. for the Browning Automatic Pistol, Browning Automatic Shotgun and Mauser Sporting Repeating Rifle. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
AND 5 other publications by the same.
- Foxed throughout; partly waterst.; title-p. creased.
= Rare series of spectacular battle scenes from the Napoleonic wars in i.a. Egypt, Spain and Russia.