Corporal Riflemen (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of the 1808 edition. Dustwrapper slightly ragged at the edges with tanned spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A reprint of the edition of 1808, nice copy in dustjacket,

or considerations on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns, with reference to their forming. The basis of a permanent system of National Defense, agreeable to the genius of the country. Richmond Publishing Co., Richmond, 1971, reprint of the 1808 edition. Illustrated with b&w plates. 5.25" x 8.5". 258 pp. Blue cloth. Explains the rifling of barrels, the theory of spiral motion, ignition of powder, rifle making, barrels, browning, the patent plug or breech, touch hole, the lock, sights, ramrods, gun powder, balls, patches, targets, loading, aiming, cleaning, etc. Very good in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 251pp plus index. 530g. Facsimile reprint of original edition of 1808 on the military rifle, including the illustrations, and with a new introductory note. Blue cloth boards, internally tight and clean.Near FINE in V.G.rubbed and edgeworn d/w with darkened spine, now in removable clear wrap.

First edition. xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP The first edition of a treatise on the history, construction, and use of the rifle, commonly attributed to politician Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851). A second edition appeared in 1812. The Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen was a civilian rifle-shooting club founded, as with dozens of other patriotic organisations, during the Napoleonic invasion scare of 1803-04. Size: 8vo.

1st Edn,. xxiv 251 + 6-page index, errata, engraved frontis of standing rifleman shooting, 9 other plates and 3 target plates, some foxing to plates, and contents. Contemporary presentation inscription on FEP from Lord Berwick to Thomas Turner also later ownership name, signature of Thomas Turner to verso of the frontis and upper blank margin of the contents page, bound in a contemporary 1/2 black calf, rubbing to head of spine and corners. The author gives details of the advantages of the rifled barrel, theory of spiral motion powder, construction of the rifle, the lock sights, the bullet etc., A scarce and important title in the development of rifles. Riling 350.