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100 year old books

Nabob

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Hello to all,
some of the books on ammo and guns are quite old these days.
Some of them 100 or more years old.
Let's see what lies under the dust in our libraries.
Since we remember the Great War let me start this thread with this one:

Rifles and Ammunition
H. Ommundsen and E.H. Robinson
published by Funk and Wagnalls in June 1915
this is second edition from October 1915

On 335 pages the book covers the development of rifles and theory of shooting.
I picked it up some years ago on ebay.

Bob
 

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155mm Filloux Gun Material

c.1918

Not quite 100, but real close.
79 pages (less the foldout plates), soft cover

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One of the most famous volumes of firearms literature, that had 9 editions and reprints up to the present day is : "The Gun and its Development" by W.W.Greener. 1881. This is a book that every gun enthusiast should have. My nice reprint has the ISBN 0-85368-073-6 and I own it for more than 25 years. There are books that will always stay current and Greener's monumental work is one of those.
Bellifortis.
 
Digging up an old thread, but an interesting one nevertheless!
I own these four books, "The Modern High Explosive" by Manuel Eissler, copyright 1814, published in 1893, 3rd edition, second thousand.
Three volumes of "Explosives" by Arthur Marshall, volumes 1 & 2 dated 1917, and the 3rd volume, not published until 1932.
Fascinating reading and a very different attitude to explosives!
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