Author: HAZLETT, JAMES C; OLMSTEAD, EDWIN; PARKS, M. HUME.
Title: Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 322; illustrated by more than 150 b/w. photographs and drawings, seven redrafted plates from the rare 1849 work by Alfred Mordecai Artillery for the United States Land Service, extensive appendixes record significant data, stampings, and the latest recorded locations for over 2000 Civil War fieldpieces known to have survived, bibliography, index, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little chipped and worn, otherwise very good copy. Newark; University Of Delaware press; 1983. Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War gives a uniquely comprehensive view of the important effect the war had on the development of modern weaponry. It shows how the war opened a new era for artillery by spotlighting the inadequacy of smoothbores, of bronze fpr rifles, and, most important of all, of expanding projectiles for rifled weapons.
Keywords: Civil War America Guns Weapons Artillery History
Title: Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 322; illustrated by more than 150 b/w. photographs and drawings, seven redrafted plates from the rare 1849 work by Alfred Mordecai Artillery for the United States Land Service, extensive appendixes record significant data, stampings, and the latest recorded locations for over 2000 Civil War fieldpieces known to have survived, bibliography, index, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little chipped and worn, otherwise very good copy. Newark; University Of Delaware press; 1983. Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War gives a uniquely comprehensive view of the important effect the war had on the development of modern weaponry. It shows how the war opened a new era for artillery by spotlighting the inadequacy of smoothbores, of bronze fpr rifles, and, most important of all, of expanding projectiles for rifled weapons.
Keywords: Civil War America Guns Weapons Artillery History
Price: AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 138.37 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 103721
- Book number: 103721