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THE CROSSBOW. Mediaeval and Modern. Military and Sporting. Its Construction, History and Management. With a Treatise on the Balista and Catapults of the Ancients First Edition 1903
by Payne - Gallwey, Sir Ralph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co.. Very Good+. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Black cloth binding with gold gilt lettering on spine and embossed figure with crossbow on horse in gold gilt on front cover. Two small pieces of rear cover missing, one on top and one on bottom. Bottom piece is 1/8" tall x 1" long and top piece is half that size. Except for these two blemish's would be a fine copy. Hinges are tight. 328 pages. 220 excellent illustrations. Many of them full page diagrams. RARE First Edition of this classic work. One of many scarce, rare and collectible Archery titles in a collection we received. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Book Gallery // Mike Riley
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100437
- Title
- THE CROSSBOW. Mediaeval and Modern. Military and Sporting. Its Construction, History and Management. With a Treatise on the Balista and Catapults of the Ancients First Edition 1903
- Author
- Payne - Gallwey, Sir Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Archery, Mediaeval War History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses; Archery; *Book Gallery Catalog*;
Terms of Sale
Book Gallery // Mike Riley
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About the Seller
Book Gallery // Mike Riley
Biblio member since 2006
Phoenix, Arizona
About Book Gallery // Mike Riley
Located in Phoenix, Arizona, our store has a comfortable ambiance surrounded by antique and modern oak bookcases, decorated with vintage and collectible bookends with lots of room to roam with good lighting. Friendly, knowledgeable professionals to assist you with questions and requests. Want lists actively solicited and aggressively serviced - we make every effort to find the book you want! Helping you build your collection is important to us - we seek long-term associations with our collectors, searching for hard-to-find items and upgrades to their collections and assisting/advising in their preservation needs. Come and peruse our holdings.
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- Folio
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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