A Treatise on Gunnery

by John Gray

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: William Innys, 1731. First edition. Bound in three-quarter leather over marbled paper, with gilt tooling and raised bands to the spine. Former owner bookplate to front paste down, pages show light, old stains, toning and sporadic soiling. An important treatise on ballistics by the British mathematician, with a long historical preface beginning with ancient Greece and Rome. Item #140938210

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