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Marks, Edward C.R.
The Evolution of Modern Small Arms and Ammunition.
Publisher: Marks and Clerk, London, Birmingham, & Manchester;
Date of Publication: 1898
Stock Code: 14335
First Edition. Octavo, pp., viii, 170, extensive figures and diagrams within text. Publisher’s midnight blue cloth, titled in gilt within blind-stamped ornamental frame to upper board, titled in gilt to spine. Historic call number ticket mounted to front free end-paper. A few light scuffs to boards, corners bumped and a little rubbed, shelf-wear to head and tail of spine, remnants of sticker to spine. The slightest of toning to contents but generally clean and bright. Overall, a very good copy. An extensive study of the history and development of small arms from the earliest use of gunpowder to the late nineteenth-century. Accompanied with mechanically precise figures of the operation of dozens of firearms. £125.00