Ordnance Department. United States Army. Benet, S. V. [Stephen Vincent] - Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1878

Washington [D.C.], Government Printing Office, 1878. First edition. Cloth. xv, 527 pp. Illus. with 146 b/w plates, many folding. 8vo. Signed twice by [Col.] F.F. Flint, who was commanding officer at Fort Sanders. Includes 32 appendices, containing reports on: life-saving apparatus, guns, projectiles; construction of a 10-inch muzzle-loading rifle and an 8-inch breech-loading rifle; trial of the Taylor battery gun and of many other weapons and fuses; Board to select a magazine gun, and more. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, a few small tears to the spine ends, finger soiling to boards, binding solid.

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