The Machine Gun: History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons, 5 Volume Set by Chinn, George M

Jon R. Wilkinson & Chas. G. Worman. Very Good. 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Slight toning to edges, couple tiny soil marks to covers, small tear to spine midway down, edgewear; illustrated; 64 pages .

1949. STIMSON, Henry L. MY VACATIONS. [n.p.] Privately printed, 1949. Inscribed presentation copy: "To - with love from Mabel and Harry." 180 pp. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Near fine with a touch of sunning to heel. Interior fine; illustrated with b/w photo reproductions. Dogs, hunting in the great American West, mountaineering in the Alps, more. Heller 379. Scarce.

Birmingham England: Midland Gun Co., Demon Gun Works., 1904 Red/yellow/black covers, map rear cover. Telegraphic address: "Rifles, Birmingham" Code: A. B. C. 4th and 5th Editions. nd. c. 1904 Notices; Loaded Cartridges Cannot be sent by Post, It must be distinctly understood that our terms of approval apply to Great Britain Only. We do not send goods on approval to any Colony or Foreign Country. We Make Guns info sheet. We Buy, Repair Guns ect. Engraved illustrations, specs, details, prices. Mannlicher Martini Sporting Rifles, Sword Sticks, Walking Stick Guns, Air Pistols, Harrington, Richardson Revolvers, Colt, Webley's PistolsGame Bags, Boxes, Breech Loading Implements, ect. Parcel Post quotes rear cover. 112 pgs Quite Rare OCLC finds 0 copies. Samll chips top cover, ow/ very good. Owner's name address dated 1912. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sixth Edition.. Decorative Paper. Very Good.

West Hartford: Countryman Press, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Carl Rungius. One of 1275 copies of which 1250 were numbered. This is one of the numbered copies. INSCRIBED, SIGNED and dated 1946 by Carl Rungius on the blank FFEP and SIGNED by Schaldach, the author, on the same page. Copies signed by Rungius are very uncommon. Very good condition with slight fraying spine ends, usual light browning of pages, very tips lower corners rubbed, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages other than the signed inscription and author signature. Original slipcase has 1cm deep loss of cover paper at spine ends, complete cover labels (front and back) that are not chipped, some splitting along one spine edge but connections holding well. The book measures 318mm tall x 245mm, and has 117 numbered pages of text (illustration leaves are not numbered), b/w sketch of bull moose frontispiece, b/w portrait painting of Rungius, 10 full-page color paintings, 18 b/w in-text illustrations… Read More

New York: J. W. Bell, 1835. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in blue cloth with faint vine pattern, title label on spine. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed, two previous owner bookplates to front endsheet. Written by an anonymous New York journalism and now attributed to J. Davis, of which little is known. Contains numerous on sportsmen, dogs and bird shooting. A lovely copy, housed in a custom case. Phillips, p.115.

London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates (16 of 19) after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt.. Volume I, Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 [all published] Royal octavo red half roan, original boards covered in blue sugar paper, spine title gilt (rebacked with matching red roan corners, original spine laid on), original free end-papers with new pastedown, armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage, vi + [2]pp list of engravings +540pp +16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves (pp 217-24) - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint, bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned, some offsetting from plates to text, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting, shooting, tandem-driving, livestock etc. Very rare in original edition (Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only… Read More

London: Rudolph Ackermann first edition, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates (12), with tissue-guards, by Henry Alken.. Octavo modern red crushed morocco, Top Edges Gilt, original upper cover bound in, iv +[2]pp +110pp +[12] leaves of hand-coloured plates. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period .. though containing only 12 plates, this first edition is more rare, and more valued higher than the second edition" (Tooley 66 cf Schwerdt I p.38). Three plates of this edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second edition. *Apperley had been Mytton�s neighbour in Shropshire. His task "was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane .. he performed the task with admirable judgment" (Camb. History of English & American Literature XIV).

Jon R. Wilkinson & Chas. G. Worman. Very Good. 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Slight toning to edges, couple tiny soil marks to covers, small tear to spine midway down, edgewear; illustrated; 64 pages .

1949. STIMSON, Henry L. MY VACATIONS. [n.p.] Privately printed, 1949. Inscribed presentation copy: "To - with love from Mabel and Harry." 180 pp. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Near fine with a touch of sunning to heel. Interior fine; illustrated with b/w photo reproductions. Dogs, hunting in the great American West, mountaineering in the Alps, more. Heller 379. Scarce.

West Hartford: Countryman Press, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Carl Rungius. One of 1275 copies of which 1250 were numbered. This is one of the numbered copies. INSCRIBED, SIGNED and dated 1946 by Carl Rungius on the blank FFEP and SIGNED by Schaldach, the author, on the same page. Copies signed by Rungius are very uncommon. Very good condition with slight fraying spine ends, usual light browning of pages, very tips lower corners rubbed, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages other than the signed inscription and author signature. Original slipcase has 1cm deep loss of cover paper at spine ends, complete cover labels (front and back) that are not chipped, some splitting along one spine edge but connections holding well. The book measures 318mm tall x 245mm, and has 117 numbered pages of text (illustration leaves are not numbered), b/w sketch of bull moose frontispiece, b/w portrait painting of Rungius, 10 full-page color paintings, 18 b/w in-text illustrations… Read More