THE HISTORY OF WEAPONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Navy blue coloured, hardback book with gilt titles on the spine. Comes with nice dust jacket, not priced clipped. This lovely book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. tiny bit of spotting to top edge of papers. First published in The United States of America, 1967, First Edition. Drawings and jacket design by George Woodbridge. 373 pages all intact, all pages, design, text and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. From the pike to the pistol, the sword to the rifle, the author G.C. Neumann traces the history of weapons of the Revolutionary War period. Drawing upon his own and numerous public and private collections, he has assembled far and away the most complete gallery available of polearms, swords, firearms, and military accessories. Ninety per cent of the 404 weapons illustrated here in 1200 photographs have never before appeared in any publication. Gun collectors and students of American History, as well as antique dealers and museum curators, will welcome this indispensable reference to arms of the colonial period. An added feature of this book is a short 500-year evolutionary history of the world's hand firearms.…