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By: Campbell (J.) RP
Price: £16.00
Publisher: 1986 rp 1998,
Seller ID: 3366
(vi), 439pp, line drawings in text, dw. AJS: A serious technical study of the battle to mark its 70thûanniversary. View more info
Price: £8.50
Publisher: 1992, Rotherfield,
Seller ID: 9618
(iv), 124pp, 22 plates, tables in text, pictorial stiff paper wrappers, aûvery good copy. AJS: This handbook is intended to serve the enthusiast, the professional,ûand the amateur alike, and to provide a basis of information for any otherûperson mildly interested in the firing of muzzle loading ordnance. Muzzleûloading includes both the smooth bored muzzle loader (SBML) and the rifledûmuzzle loader (RML), and the term ordnance embraces guns, howitzers andûmortars. The SBML pieces fired today are not only original, historicalûpieces, but also modern reproductions, and it is probably only... View more info
By: Caruana (Capt A.B.) Cloth Set.
Price: £350.00
Publisher: 1994-97, Rotherfield,
Seller ID: 10658
two volumes, large format (32cm x 25cm), teg, coloured endpapers, dark greenûcloth, dws, a good clean set [heavy item].û(1) The Age of Evolution, xviii + 237pp, 101 illus (from plans, paintings,ûprints etc), tables.û(2) The Age of the System 1715-1815, xii + 500pp, 193 illus (paintings,ûprints, line illustrations). Publisher: Volume I describes the creation of the English gunfoundingûindustry under Henry VIII and Elizabeth, and the gradual move fromûforeign-inspired guns to a domsetic tradition. It continues with theûStuarts, and the arming of the ships during the Dutch Wars of the 17t... View more info
By: Caruana (Capt A.B.) Leather Set.
Price: £450.00
Publisher: 1994-97, Rotherfield,
Seller ID: 10659
two volumes, large format (32cm x 25cm), teg, coloured endpapers, dark greenûleather, raised bands on spines, a good clean set (heavy item).û(1) The Age of Evolution, xviii + 237pp, 101 illus (from plans, paintings,ûprints etc), tables.û(2) The Age of the System 1715-1815, xii + 500pp, 193 illus (paintings,ûprints, line illustrations). Publisher: Volume I describes the creation of the English gunfoundingûindustry under Henry VIII and Elizabeth, and the gradual move fromûforeign-inspired guns to a domsetic tradition. It continues with theûStuarts, and the arming of the ships during the ... View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: 1991, Rotherfield,
Seller ID: 375
viii + 232pp, 52 full colour plates with 136 line illus, (sketches,ûreproductions from contemporary drawings), endpaper illus, large landscapeûformat (24cm x 32cm), dw, unopened, a very good copy. Publisher: Throughout the 18th century, English bronze guns were cast atûthe Woolwich Brass Foundry. Built in 1716, it served the needs of both theûArmy and Navy until the end of the Seven Years' War, by which time it wasûin urgent need of refurbishment and modernisation. A number ofûtechnological improvements had been made in Continental foundries, and itûwas not therefore altogether surprisi... View more info
By: Escola da Servico de Torpedos (Portugal).
Price: £150.00
Publisher: 1892-95, Lisbon,
Seller ID: 9702
two items bound together, in an attractive full goat binding, gilt embellishments and title on front board. (1) Instruccao de Provas Electricas. 1892, 45pp, 25 text figs. (2) Emprego de Torpedos no Mar. 1895, 73pp, 22 text figs. AJS: Published in Lisbon, Portuguese text. As with many other European nations, Portugal developed its use of the torpedo for its navy, it acquired technology from Whitehead in Fiume. View more info
By: Escola da Servico de Torpedos (Portugal).
Price: £150.00
Publisher: 1897-1900, Lisbon,
Seller ID: 9703
four items bound together, in an attractive full goat binding, gilt embellishments and title on front board. (1) Instruccoes para Servico dos Torpedos Whitehead. 1900, 40pp. (2) Instruccoes para Servico dos Torpedos Whitehead. 1900, ii + 6 plates (3 folding). (3) Instruccoes para Servico dos Torpedos Whitehead. 1897, 122pp, (4) Instruccoes para Servico dos Torpedos Whitehead. 1897, ii + 26 plates (4 folding). AJS: Published in Lisbon, Portuguese text. As with many other European nations, Portugal developed its use of the torpedo for its navy, it acquired technology from Whitehead in Fiume. View more info
By: Escola da Servico de Torpedos (Portugal).
Price: £150.00
Publisher: 1899, Lisbon,
Seller ID: 9701
two items bound together, in an attractive full goat binding, gilt embellishments and title on front board. (1) Manual de Electricidade e Magnetismo para usa do Marinheiro Torpedeiro. 47pp, 18 text figs. (2) Nocoes de Electrologia. 91pp, 19 text figs (one folding heightened with colour). AJS: Published in Lisbon, Portuguese text. As with many other European nations, Portugal developed its use of the torpedo for its navy, it acquired technology from Whitehead in Fiume. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: 1897 rp 1971,
Seller ID: 811
xiv + 360pp, 12 illus, 113 text illus, dw. AJS: Concentrates on the period 1805-1880, by a naval officer. View more info
By: Gardiner (R.) Editor & Brown (D.K.) Consultant Editor.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: 1992,
Seller ID: 3485
223pp, 199 photos, 64 line illus, large format, dw. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: 1939, Washington,
Seller ID: 6673
vi + 103pp, 18 text illus, folding plate, printed paper wrappers. View more info
By: Kempthorne (T.)
Price: £350.00
Publisher: 1731,
Seller ID: 7615
Two ALS, mounted in large card folder, with protective cover. (1) 2pp, size 30cm x 18cm, watermark, in a good clear hand, signed by each of the six gunners instructed to compare cured paper and parchment cartridges. (2) 2pp, size 30cm x 18cm, watermark, in a good clear hand, signed by Kempthorne and conveying the opinion of the gunners to Mr Secretary Burchett. AJS: Kempthorne was instructed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to investigate the benefits or advantages of cured paper as against parchment cartridges for use in His Majesty's Navy. There is a detailed (24 lines) reply from... View more info
By: May (Cdr W.E.) & Annis (P.G.W.)
Price: £265.00
Publisher: 1970,
Seller ID: 692
in two volumes, large format (30cm x 21cm), in dws (heavy set).û(1) xii + 256pp, 4 colour plates, 29 figs in text (some multi-view),ûendpaper illus.û(2) pagination continues to 398pp, colour frontis, 3 figs in text, 140ûphotographic plates as a section at end of volume, endpaper illus. AJS: A standard authority and yet to be superceeded, published by theûNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in association with HMSO. The work isûdivided into five parts (1) British Swords; (2) Swords of Other Lands; (3)ûSwords in the National Maritime Museum; (4) Sword Cutlers; (5)ûBiographical Notes on ... View more info
By: McGrath (J.)
Price: £4.50
Publisher: 2004,
Seller ID: 5166
32pp, title illus, 31 illus, 17 text illus, pictorial stiff paper covers. AJS: A basic study and the second study in the series. View more info
By: NMM Monograph No 1. Greenhill (B.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1970,
Seller ID: 10514
31pp, 27 illus, pictorial paper covers. View more info
By: Poolman (K.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1997,
Seller ID: 677
xii + 235pp, 37 illus, 2 maps, dw. Publisher: This book describes in lay terms the development of the weaponsûthat dominated naval warfare from 1939-45, and their employment in action. View more info
By: Scoffern (J.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1858 rp 1971,
Seller ID: 1324
xi + 306pp, 33 illus, dw. Riling, entry 552: New weapons, including rifled ordnance, andûbreech-loading cannon by Armstrong, as well as information on Minie andûDelvigne projectiles, the Prussian needle gun, and Lancaster oval rifleûboring. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: 1691 rp 1994, Limited ed 700 copies, Rotherfield,
Seller ID: 3429
xivpp introduction, xvi + 202 + 33pp + 4pp, 3 folding plates, small format,ûdw, a very good copy. Publisher: The first English book written solely for the gunner in the seaûservice, although it owes much to earlier works written for the landûservice, notably Bourne's The Art of Shooting in Great Ordnance (1578),ûNye's Art of Gunnery (1670), the anonymous Compleat Gunner of 1672, andûBinning's A Light to the Art of Gunnery (1689). It no doubt draws also onûnumerous manuscript Gunner's Notes deriving from the course of instructionûoperated by the Board of Ordnance which had been in operat... View more info
Price: £85.00
Publisher: 1691 rp 1994, in a limited edition 50 copies, Roth
Seller ID: 9619
xivpp introduction, xvi + 202 + 33pp + 4pp, 3 folding plates, small formatû(16cm x 10.5cm), teg, coloured endpapers, full green leather, a very goodûcopy. Publisher: The first English book written solely for the gunner in the seaûservice, although it owes much to earlier works written for the landûservice, notably Bourne's The Art of Shooting in Great Ordnance (1578),ûNye's Art of Gunnery (1670), the anonymous Compleat Gunner of 1672, andûBinning's A Light to the Art of Gunnery (1689). It no doubt draws also onûnumerous manuscript Gunner's Notes deriving from the course of instructionû... View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1962,
Seller ID: 10728
123pp, 61 illus, printed stiff card, title on front board. AJS: Everything the average Jihadi would need to know. View more info