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Verlag: The Border Press. Brecon, Powys. 1994., 1994
ISBN 10: 1873088086ISBN 13: 9781873088081
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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(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. .
Verlag: The Border Press. Brecon, Powys. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 187308806XISBN 13: 9781873088067
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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(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. .
Verlag: The Border Press. Brecon, Breconshire. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 1873088051ISBN 13: 9781873088050
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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(Paperback, 1993). (1883) 1993 paperback facsimile edition. 8vo paperback (138 x 216mm). Ppxv,9-376. B/w line illustrations. Stains and soiling to cover and lower corner of pages, else good, solidly intact, second-hand paperback. "The Gunmaker's Manual is designed to furnish in convenient form such information as shall be of most use in the actual every-day work of the shop, and for such demands or emergencies as are liable to challenge the knowledge or skill of the workman. .No pains have been spared to make every detail full, explicit and reliable, and it is believed that any intelligent man will find but little trouble in understanding and successfully applying the instructions." The numerous chapters include: History of the gun; How guns are made; Guns now in use; Pistols now in use; On general gunsmithing; Taking apart, cleaning and putting guns together; Tools required for work, their cost, etc. ; Tools, etc., and how to make them; the work bench; On working in iron; On working in steel; On working in silver, coppe and brass; On working in wood; On gun stocks; On gun barrels; On work on gun barrels; Tools for breeching guns; Tools for chambering breech loading barrels; On gun ribs; On thimbles; On rifling guns; On gun locks; On fitting gun hammers; On nipples or cones; On springs; On rods; On bullet moulds; Screw making tools; Nomenclature; On browning; Recipes for browning; Miscellaneous - shellac, concealing bad places places in wood, alcohol lamps, making small springs, making small drills, soldering, preventing glimmering, broken plunger nipples, removing rusted screws etc., describing lines on bright surfaces; On powder and shot; Miscellaneous recipes - soft soldering, brasing, hard soldering, alloy for adhering to iron or steel, gun oil, gunsmith's glue; On judging the quality of guns; On using the rifle; On using the shot gun; On using the pistol; Vocabularies; Calibres of guns, rifling, twist of rifling, etc; Directions for taking apart and assembling specific types of girearm - Ballard, Burgess, Burnside's, Evans, Hotchkiss repeater, Kennedy, Howard's 'Thunderbolt', Martin, Maynard, Peabody Martini, Phoenix, Remington, Remington Magazine gun, Remington No.3, Sharp's; US muzzle-loading rifle and musket; Springfield; Whitney; Winchester; Billings; Fox; Lefevre; Parker double-barreled shotgun; Remington double-barreled shotgun; Roper four-shooting shot gun and rifle. .
Verlag: Cork University Press in association with the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh 2001-01-01, Cork, 2001
ISBN 10: 1859183123ISBN 13: 9781859183120
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New. Language: eng.
Verlag: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, London, 1821
Anbieter: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
10 vols, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], xxviii, 794; xii, xlii, 684; x, 721, [1]; xviii, xxxvii, [i], 841, [1]; viii, lxxxvii, [i], 659, [1]; xxv, [i], xlviii, 728; xix, [i], 786; xxii, 791, [1]; [iv], v, [i], lxx, 776; [vi], xxxix, 764. Contemporary biscuit calf, boards bordered with a blind roll inside a double gilt rule, spines divided by wide raised bands, green and red morocco labels (?Ballantyne?s Novelists? and a vol. number on green, a list of titles in each vol. on red), other compartments with central flower tools within corner sprays all gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A little minor spotting. Bindings rubbed, extremities worn, several joints splitting (but all sound). Armorial bookplates of Alexander Grant to front pastedowns, over that of James Webster, small bookseller?s stamp of Williams Library Cheltenham to verso of flyleaves. A complete set of ?Ballantyne?s Novelist?s Library?, a commercially unsuccessful but critically important step in the development of the canon of English prose fiction. Following a suggestion by John Murray and the production of Barbauld?s ?The British Novelists? of 1810, Walter Scott had considered the possibility of a compilation of novels but did not formally initiate the project until his friend and business partner John Ballantyne was on his deathbed a decade later. Unlike Barbauld?s project, which had selected individual novels of merit, Scott put the authors front and centre, reprinting the majority of the works of Fielding, Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, etc. - plus a few miscellaneous inclusions. Scott further contributed prefatory essays for each of the 15 authors, bringing the model of Johnson?s Lives of the Poets to the newer literary form. Later collected as The Lives of the Novelists, they form ?one of the most important bodies of novel criticism in English? (Corman, Women Novelists before Jane Austen, p. 39) - or at the very least, a significant early contribution to the treatment of the novel as worthy of criticism. The ?Library? petered out after 10 volumes due to slow sales and the loss of John Ballantyne?s support after his death in 1821 - some also thought the small, double-column type an obstacle to success - and is now scarce to find complete.