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BREECH-LOADERS
by Gloan" (Thomas Ackley Logan)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 8.1 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 192. Illlustrated with frontis of The Lockfast Breech-loader. Beveled red cloth boards with gilt title and two-rifle design to spine. Rubbing to extremities; corners just showing. Headcap and tailcap of spine missing. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, and embossment stamp to frontis. Light age-toning to pages. A breech-loader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the barrel. Initially developed in the 14th Century, the first modern breech-loading rifled gun was invented by Martin von Wahrendorff with a cylindrical breech plug secured by a horizontal wedge in 1837. In the 1850s and 1860s, Whitworth and Armstrong invented improved breech-loading artillery. Single-shot breech-loaders would be used throughout the latter half of the 19th Century, but were slowly replaced by various designs for repeating rifles, first used in the American Civil War. Manual breech-loaders gave way to manual magazine feed and then to self-loading rifles. Breech-loading is still commonly used in shotguns and hunting rifles. (from Wikipedia).
Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87589
- Title
- BREECH-LOADERS
- Author
- Gloan" (Thomas Ackley Logan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geo. E. Woodward
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- rifles, civil war guns
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