Littlehampton octopus books (5 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDvery good/used book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very clean copy.

Condición: Near Fine. Tight, clean and unmarked-1st Octopus Edition-Gunpowder & Matchlocks, Wheel Locks & Snaphaunces, French Flintlocks, English Flintlocks, Duelling, and Percussion Cap-140 illustrations" Gunpowder & Matchlocks, Wheel Locks & Snaphaunces, French Flintlocks, English Flintlocks, Duelling, and Percussion Cap- Beginning with the primitive matchlock, the author describes the progressive inventions of the wheel-lock, flint-lock and percussion cap, and the development of the revolver, to which two Americans, Elisha Collier and Samuel Colt, made the most important contributions. In turn, we see the Italians, Germans, French, English, and Americans taking the lead in the design of firearms for war, dueling, and sport. Such weapons as the early French musket, eighteenth-century dueling pistols, and the almost legendary English blunderbuss are illustrated and described with many examples of their use. The book also illustrates the beautiful chasing on pistols and on guns and rifles of all kinds and nationalities, which has elevated the gunsmith's products into minor works of art.". …