2230 - 2322 GUNS and MILITARIA
- Bookplate (of Henk Visser) on upper pastedown. Binding w. some worn spots.
= Complete series of engravings from the work.
- Upper corner title-p. cut out and restored w. later paper. Covers scratched and chafed.
= Gerrare 1607: "An elaborate treatise on the development of the infantry rifle (...)".
Schön, J. Geschichte der Handfeuerwaffen. Eine Darstellung des Entwickelungsganges der Handfeuerwaffen von ihrem Entstehen bis auf die Neuzeit. Dresden, R. Kuntze, 1858, XVIII,182p., 32 double-p. lithogr. plates, orig. hcl., 4to.
- Ex library copy w. cancellation stamps etc. Binding worn. = Not in Gerrare.
AND 3 others, i.a. K. EXLER, Schießschule der Handfeuerwaffen und Mashinengewehre (Vienna, 1905, 8 fold. lithogr. plates, contemp. hcl.).
- Foxed.
- Spine-ends sl. dam.
AND a facs. reprint of DEUTSCHE WAFFEN- UND MUNITIONSFABRIKEN. Munitions-Katalog. Ausgabe 1904 (Chicago, n.d., ills., orig. rexine, 4to).
= 1. Infantry Regiments. Pioneer Battalions. General Officers; 2. Cavalry. Artillery. Train.
AND 3 others, i.a. E. EGG a.o., Kanonen. Illustrierte Geschichte der Artillerie (Bern etc., 1971, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio) and H.-W. LEWERKEN, Kombinations Waffen des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1989, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).
= Standard work on the subject.
- Frontcover sl. waterst.
- Bookblock frayed; spine strengthened.
Idem. Zur Feldgeschützfrage. Ibid., R. Eisenschmidt, 1896, VIII,400p., fold. plate, ills., contemp. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down.
- Ex-library copy w. cancellation stamps etc.
AND 6 others, i.a. IDEM, Das Feldgeschütz der Zukunft und die Kritik der Gegenwart (ibid., 1892, orig. wr.); IDEM, Ueber die Bewaffnung der Feld-Artillerie (ibid., 1880, later plain wr.) and IDEM, Die kommende Feldgeschütze (ibid., 1893, fold. plates, contemp. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down).
- A few scattered library stamps. Bindings sl. soiled.
AND 3 others, i.a. A. KORZEN and R. KÜHN, Waffenlehre (Vienna, 1905, fold. plates, orig. limp cl.).
- Binding sl. foxed; spine sunned.
= The Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Mashinenfabrik (today Rheinmetall) produced munition and weaponry. After the peace treaty of Versailles (and again after World War II), the company switched to non-military production. The plates showing canons and armory, both in the factory and in the field. Rare.
AND 1 other on the 50-year jubilee of the same company.