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A lively chronicle of the oldest arms manufacturer in the world looks back on nearly five centuries of gun making that began in Italy with a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. 15,000 first printing.
ndustrial firm and the oldest gunmaker in the world, Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A., launches its 475th anniversary with the publication of this lavish history and celebration of a unique world of fine guns. Beretta remains under the stewardship of its founding family, headed now by Ugo Gussalli Beretta and his sons, Pietro and Franco. Today the Beretta line of firearms and accessories reigns as one of the few international brands symbolic of unsurpassed quality. But no other firm goes back so far in history, or reaches so many corners of the globe, as Beretta.
The Italian company stands supreme partly because it is on the cutting edge--of design, quality, manufacture, performance, and style. Through the centuries, the family has guided the company in the transition from specialist gun-barrel makers to, in Napoleonic times, creator of sporting firearms, later adding military and law-enforcement arms and importing arms by Colt, Remington, S&W, and Winchester, still later devel
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2000). 2000 1st edition reprint. Oblong 4to (285 x 224mm). Ppxii,372. Colour, b/w photographs by Peter Beard and Mauro Pezzotta throughout, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography. Blind-stamped "R.L.W." monogram to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly shaken, slight use. Good-plus in like dust-wrapper. This is a sumptuously illustrated account of the history of the Italian arms manufacturer, Beretta, published to mark the company's 475th anniversary. Although the company is indeed ancient, the majority of the book's contents deal with nineteenth and twentieth century developments. The photography was undertaken by Peter Beard and Mauro Pezzotta. Chapters include: The Beretta heritage; The Beretta elegance; Sporting shotguns for the field; Shotguns for competition; Military rifles and machine guns; Handguns for sport and self-defence; Beretta's M9, the US service pistol triumph; Sporting rifles and big game hunting; Beretta Sport, the galleries, and subsidiaries; The Beretta family, present and future; Epilogue, current information through early 2000; Technical data. . Artikel-Nr. 49358
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