American Inventions And Improvements In Breech Loading Small Arms Heavy Ordinance Machine Guns

by Charles B Norton Compiler

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Illustrated with chromolithograph frontispiece of a New Model 44 Army Pistol, Smith and Wesson and one other chromolithograph plate, plus 2 engravings and many others in text. 407, 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original red cloth over bevelled boards, stamped in gilt. Upper cover faded across the diagonal upper left, joints starting, spine a bit darkened. Very good. Rilings 1072. Item #41986

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