Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1878
187831672Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1878. First edition. Cloth. 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. 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. Government Printing Office hardcover
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