Reprint of the ninth edition of 1910. Volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 9", is bound in bluish gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Illustrated with b&w plates and text figures. xx/804 plus 28 pages of advertisements. Chapters on early arms, the invention of gunpowder, early artillery, early hand fire-arms, the percussion system, modern shot-guns, hammerless guns, ejector guns, modern methods of gun-making, the proof of guns, tests and test-recording instruments, public gun trials, the shooting capabilities of shot-guns, varieties of shot-guns and their shooting powers, the choice of a gun, how to use a gun, trap shooting, double guns with single triggers, modern pistols, explosives, internal ballistics, ammunition and accessories, the history of rifling and its development, modern sporting rifles, external ballistics, single-short military rifles, early repeating rifle mechanisms, modern military magazine rifles, target rifles.

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Title: The Gun and Its Development
Publisher: Bonanza Books
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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