9780853686958 - Game Guns and Rifles: From Percussion to Hammerless Ejector in Britain von Akehurst, Richard (2 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1969) 1985 reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,178. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark red boards, spine titled in gilt. Stain to lower edges of boards, red dye from the boards has run 1" into the end-papers, o/w internally clean. Good in slightly used dust-wrapper. An authoritative and readable account of "one of the most inventive periods in British gunmaking, from 1830 to 1900." Chapters include: Percussion cap guns; Percussion cap rifles; gunmaking in the percussion era; The pinfire breech-loader; The centre-fire hammer gun; Centre-fire hammerless guns, ejectors and single-triggers; Shooting, 1860 to 1900; Breech-loading game rifles; Gunmaking in the breech-loading era up to 1900; gunmakers of the period; The shooting of muzzle and early breech-loaders. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1969) 1985 reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,178. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark red boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. An authoritative and readable account of "one of the most inventive periods in British gunmaking, from 1830 to 1900." Chapters include: Percussion cap guns; Percussion cap rifles; gunmaking in the percussion era; The pinfire breech-loader; The centre-fire hammer gun; Centre-fire hammerless guns, ejectors and single-triggers; Shooting, 1860 to 1900; Breech-loading game rifles; Gunmaking in the breech-loading era up to 1900; gunmakers of the period; The shooting of muzzle and early breech-loaders. .