Ukase command nations keep von james henry (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 197.

200 pp. + frontispiece portrait. Illustrated. Publisher's decorated cloth. A very good copy. A facsimile dedication note is mounted inside front cover. The methodist business man McLean's main idea of not making war was to "develop such terribly destructive weapons of war, arms, torpedoes, and fortresses, and such perfect defenses, as would compel all nations to keep peace towards each other".…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 200; pictorial half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of McLean, approx. 75 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, many full-page; original pictorial pebble-grain purple cloth, gilt-stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine, with the printed presentation slip affixed to the front pastedown, as common; spine ends a bit chipped, front hinge starting, else very good. Riling 1070: "A fantasy of arms.Literally a book in the style of a patent medicine brochure, but applied to the consideration of arms rather than ailments.".…