The Rifle: And How To Use It. Comprising A Description of the valuable Weapon in all its varieties, and an account of its origin
by BUSK, Hans
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. New edition considerably enlarged and improved with illustrations. Includes preface to the 6th edition. Hardcover. Good. vi, 229, [3], 8 p. 17 cm. B&w line drawings. Black buckram. May have had a frontispiece now missing. Title page repaired at inner margin, some wear to edge. P. 5 in rear publication listings coming loose.
Topics include: Jacob's Pattern Rifle, Enfield Rife, Colt's Repeating Rifle, Lancaster's Elliptic Rifles, Whitworth's Rifle, etc. as well as how to use it, firing, drilling and training regiments, and so on. Appendix at rear.
Topics include: Jacob's Pattern Rifle, Enfield Rife, Colt's Repeating Rifle, Lancaster's Elliptic Rifles, Whitworth's Rifle, etc. as well as how to use it, firing, drilling and training regiments, and so on. Appendix at rear.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122022
- Title
- The Rifle: And How To Use It. Comprising A Description of the valuable Weapon in all its varieties, and an account of its origin
- Author
- BUSK, Hans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New edition considerably enlarged and improved with illustration
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- Rifles, Military, Jacob's Pattern, Enfield, Colt, Lancaster, Whitworth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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