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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1994). (1859) 1994 paperback facsimile edition. 8vo paperback (147 x 210mm). Pp194. B/w illustrations. Slightly bumped, title-page excised but solidly intact, second-hand paperback. "At the close of the year 1857, on undertaking the editorship of the department of the Field connected with shooting, I found its columns deluged with an angry correspondence on the comparative merits of the breech-loader and muzzle-loader - statements and counter-statements were made, week after week, all of which could not possibly be true, since many of them were in direct opposition to each other. - The battle had raged for several months; but after all this - - no one was convinced, and the question was left exactly where it was when the correspondence commenced." In order to settle the matter, the author held two trials. "The two gun trials of 1858 and 1859 were carried out with great care and trouble, and the real pretensions of muzzle-loaders and breech-loaders have been settled for the present to the satisfaction of all reasonable men. As a natural result I have been brought into contact with guns and gunmakers in an unusual degree, and have had far greater opportunites of seeing varieties of principle and workmanship n this department of art than any other person out of the trade." In this book, the author lays out the results of the two trials as well as what he had learned from the gun-makers for the benefit of the enquiring sportsman. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 1994). (1859) 1994 paperback facsimile edition. 8vo paperback (147 x 210mm). Pp194. B/w illustrations. Fine unread paperback. "At the close of the year 1857, on undertaking the editorship of the department of the Field connected with shooting, I found its columns deluged with an angry correspondence on the comparative merits of the breech-loader and muzzle-loader - statements and counter-statements were made, week after week, all of which could not possibly be true, since many of them were in direct opposition to each other. - The battle had raged for several months; but after all this - - no one was convinced, and the question was left exactly where it was when the correspondence commenced." In order to settle the matter, the author held two trials. "The two gun trials of 1858 and 1859 were carried out with great care and trouble, and the real pretensions of muzzle-loaders and breech-loaders have been settled for the present to the satisfaction of all reasonable men. As a natural result I have been brought into contact with guns and gunmakers in an unusual degree, and have had far greater opportunites of seeing varieties of principle and workmanship in this department of art than any other person out of the trade." In this book, the author lays out the results of the two trials as well as what he had learned from the gun-makers for the benefit of the enquiring sportsman. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1993). (1939) 1993 paperback facsimile reprint. 8vo (129 x 194mm). Ppxii,422. B/w photographs and illustrations. Light spotting to edges, but a clean and solidly intact second-hand paperback. A facsimile paperback edition ".A manual of instruction in the manufacture, alteration and repair of firearms in-so-far as the necessary metal work with hand and machine tools is concerned. With chapters on the boring, rifling and chambering of barrels. For amateur and professional gunsmiths. With original illustrations by Oliver B. Hamilton." Chapters include: Shop equipment; Barrel changing and its adjustments; Chambering, boring and reaming tools; Rifling tools and the rifling of barrels; Reboring and rechambering old rifles; Action work and alterations; Sights, scopes and small parts; Shotgun repairs; Problems of .22 and other rim-fire rifles; Revolver and automatic pistol jobs; Cleaning, clearing and lapping barrels; Working with hand tools; Notes on firing-pins; Soldering and brazing; Forging and welding; Heat treatment of steel; Blueing of firearms; Cartridge case and bullet dies; Loading tool accessories and appliances; Postmortem. .…

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Facsimile of 1935 edition. A very nice clean, bright copy, almost as-new.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Pp 247 + Index. Appears Unused.

In 8° (cm. 21 x 14,5); pagg. 194; con numerose illustraz. n.t.; leggera cartonatura origin. figurata. VG.