[Artillery manual]. Schneider & Cie. (Schneider-Canet). - Schneider & Cie. Instrction relative au maeriel d'artillerie de cote de 27 c/m de 36 calibres. Systeme Schneider-Canet. Gouvernement japonais. 1902.Nevers, Imprimerie Mazeron Frères, 1902, 40 pag., 3 (incl. 2 folding: 43 x 61; 58 x 106 cm.) tables with very detailed illustrations, original gilt red cloth, quarto (31,8 x 24,5 cm.). = Rare French artillery handbook or manual for howitzer (?) type coastal defence cannons of 27 to 36 calibres designed for the Japanese market. With 4 loosely inserted typescript characteristics dossiers for different cannons ("canon de 27 c/m L/28 Systeme Schneider-Canet, sur affut a eclipse" (3 lvs.), "canon de 32 c/m 40 calibres sur affut de bord. - ce materiel a été livré au Gouvernement Japonais pour l'arme ment des gardes-côtes Itsukushima, matsushima, Hashidate" (7 lvs.), "canon de 27 c/m L/28 système Schneider-Canet, sur affut a eclipse" (4 lvs.), "canon de 27 c/m de 28 calibres sur affut a pivot central. - des quantités importantes de bouches à feu de ce système ont été livrées, notamment au Gouvernement Japonais" (5 lvs.)). - AND with 2 stencilled tables in purple ink: "Materiels de campagne et de côte système Schneider-Canet" (27,5 x 43 cm.) and a schematically characteristics table "Artillerie Canon Schneider-Canet", indicating weight, metal-type, weight and initial speed of projectiles, etc. The Canet guns were a series of weapon systems developed by the French engineer Gustave Canet (1846-1908), who worked as an engineer from 1872 to 1881 for the London Ordnance Works, then for Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, and from 1897 to 1907 for Schneider et Cie of Le Creusot. (...) Canet was (...) successful in sales to the Empire of Japan, when the gun was selected by the French military advisor and naval architect Louis-Émile Bertin as the main battery of the Matsushima-class cruiser, new type of cruiser he had designed in 1887. The usage was consistent with the Jeune École philosophy, which advocated placing overwhelming firepower (strong guns, torpedoes) on relatively small ships. This philosophy was of great interest to the Imperial Japanese Navy, which lacked the resources at the time to purchase modern pre-dreadnought battleships. (source: wikipedia). EUR 375.00 [Appr.: US$ 432.1 | £UK 321.25 | JP¥ 63045] Book number #8982is offered by:
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