Language: English
Published by John Chadwick, Sidney Nova Scotia, 1984
Seller: Nine Lives Antiques, Almonte, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book One - A Historical Appraisal of the Ross Rifle. Book Two - A Technical Appraisal of the Ross Rifle by Francis Dupis and John Chadwick.
US$ 504.12
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket1st. 475 pages, 4to., illustrated in b/w from photographs, drawings, gun breakdowns etc., publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt title to upper cover, a vg+ copy in dj. Includes a full typed letter on Shooting Times headed paper signed by Geoffrey Boothroyd, discussing Ross and the rifles . An important and technically orientated book dealing with the development of the rifle with a photographic record of experimental and production of the Ross rifle and the development of the .280 Ross cartridge and other cartridges. Quite scarce more so with this provenance.