The Guttman Collection on Explosives and Military Science.

Photographic reproduction of the Catalogue, commencing with Catalogue of the Military Collection in the Dupont Company President's Office. 4to., pp: vi+200 printed on one side only, in quarter black cloth, label to spine lettered in gilt, sound, tight and very good indeed. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Explosive Department Records. In the years leading up to the Second World War, the United States government initiated a massive effort to ensure that adequate supplies of essential materials would be readily available should the country's armed forces become actively engaged in military conflict. At the request of the Army Ordnance Department, the DuPont Company participated in these procurement programs by undertaking the design, construction, and operation of plants for the manufacture of military explosives and other chemical products essential to the successful prosecution of the war.".