1st Edition 1961, Jenkins, cover embossed with a flintlock and a Herbert Jenkins crest. No dust jacket but the book is in very nice condition.

British Military Firearms 1650 - 1850

History

Blackmore, Howard L.

Military

Herbert Jenkins

Detailed, comprehensive account of swords, knives and bayonets, staff weapons, bows, crossbows, guns and other miscellaneous arms — dating from the Middle Ages to modern times. Over 280 contemporary illustrations catalog the spear of a Roman hunter, a medieval broad arrow, a harpoon gun fired by whalers, and much else.

Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: With 288 Illustrations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Dover Publications

This folio sized book contains over 100 illustrations to provide the collector, dealer and museum official with a comprehensive and representative visual reference work on the guns and rifles of the world. With the help of these pictures it is possible to date and place with some exactness any unfamiliar gun or rifle. An extended Introduction, itself as long as a book, traces the technical and decorative development of guns and rifles from the forteenth to the later nineteenth century. The text covers all Ignition Systems and there are special chapters on Multi-shot mechanisms - superimposed charges, revolvers, magazine guns, etc. The pictures, which include reproductions of old engravings as well as drawings made specially by the author, have been similarly arranged. Since many of the weapons have been photographed specially for the book, a large number of the pictures will be fresh even to the expert. Text and illustrations are so closely inter-related that each clarifies and illuminates the other. Notes on the Illustrations provide further technical and historical data on a range of selected individual pictures. As a graphic encyclopaedia, the book is so comprehensive in its coverage and so original in its approach that, for most experts, it will take the place of existing one volume surveys of the guns and rifles of the world. Illustrated.

Guns and Rifles of the World

Studio

Hunting Weapons is the first book on its subject in English. It deals mainly with the different classes of weapons used in sport - swords, spears, crossbows, guns and rifles - from the Middle Ages until the present day. Each category of weapon is dealt with in chronological order so that the collector can identify his own pieces and gain knowledge of the reasons for their design. The collector of swords will find a surprising range of weapons illustrated, from the knight's sword of the 15th century to the highly decorated hangers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Collectors of firearms will meet with some rare and unusual specimens.
Many fine photographs show the great artistry which went into the making of weapons for princes and the members of their courts. Historical notes provide authentic background, and line illustrations show unusual, often bizarre, methods of hunting.
Includes 432 pages plus unnumbered pages of photographs.

Hunting Weapons - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Walker and Company

Takes as its inspiration the Royal Armouries' fine collection of English pistols. This text looks at the technical and artistic development of the pistol and covers a period from the 16th century, when English gunmaking was at its height, up until the 20th.

English Pistols

Olympic Marketing Corp

By 1986, Howard Blackmore had compiled his monumental record of London gunmakers. It was published in England under the title A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850 and in America with the title Gunmakers of London1350-1850. This Supplement begins with a new introductory chapter on the .Foreign. gunmakers followed by records of all of the new information found about previously unidentified armorers, gunmakers and gunsmiths. Where new information has been located about those who appeared in the Dictionary,they too have been included in an updated entry. A LIMITED NUMBER of the original edition Gunmakers of London 1350-1850 We have been able to acquire the available stock of the first American edition (the English edition which had a £70.00 list was out of print many years ago). These will be sold with the Supplement as a pair.

Gunmakers of London 1350-1850

Americas

George Shumway Pub

Guns and Rifles Of The World

Chancellor Press

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