Manuscript volume detailing the manufacture and maintenance of explosives and ammunition

by Military

$1,850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Half reverse sheep over marbled paper boards with all edges marbled A practical mid-nineteenth-century British military manuscript on explosives and ammunition, preserving technical ordnance knowledge at a time when British arms production, chemical investigation, and military supply were undergoing rapid change. This substantial manuscript volume records the manufacture, maintenance, and care of explosives and ammunition in a clear professional hand. Its indexed

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