
Price: $20.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Fair to Good
Hardcover book with red cloth boards and dust jacket, reprint edition, 320pp, weighs 1625gms. This book covers military and civil firearms from the beginnings to the present day. Contents includes: The Hand Gonne; The Matchlock; The Wheel-Lock; The Snaphaunce; The Flintlock; The Percussion Principle; Breech-loading Firearms; The Revolver; The Rifle; The Machine Gun; Automatic Pistols; Automatic Rifles and Submachine Guns; and the Firearms of the Future. The book includes over 500 illustrations, including 50 in colour. This is a fair to good copy with general age-related wear and tear. Dust jacket is in poor condition, though still in tact, with discolouration and many tears (as can be seen in the attached photograph). There is a small pen inscription on the inside front blank page and insides show minor foxing. Red cloth boards have holes at corners and a split on the spine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Title: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms, The
Categories: Guns/Weaponry,
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: London, England, New Burlington Books: 1987
ISBN Number: 0906286417
ISBN Number 13: 9780906286418
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Book Condition: Fair to Good
Jacket Condition: Poor
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller ID: 000169
Keywords: FIREARMS, WEAPONRY, HUNTING, SHOOTING, SPORTING, MILITARY, GUNS, PISTOLS, RIFLES, REVOLVERS,