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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1864. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Moderate nicks and tears to page edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

(England): The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. New Introduction By W. S. Curtis. 364pp., green cloth with gilt printing to spine. 7 1/4" x 5". Very Good in a chipped dj. .

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. xxii, 364pp. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, three plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight wear to extremities. Hinges starting, loss to top corner of blank RFEP, bookplate of Lord Raglan to FEP, recent armorial bookplate to recto of FFEP of Cefntilla, family seat of the Barons Raglan. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to half-title, 'Raglan (i.e. Richard Henry Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan), From The Author'. Sir James Emerson Tennent's (1804-1869) history of the development of firearms and ordnance in the British military forces. The first part concerns the improvements made to the rifled musket under the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo, to the introduction of the Whitworth rifle following the Crimean War. The second part catalogues rifled ordnance from cast-iron cannon to a detailed account of the trialling of the Whitworth Gun.… Read More

1864. 45 Volumes. London and other Places of Print, Longman, Green and others, 1864-2012. Octavo. c.3000 pages with illustrations Original Hardcover and Softcover-Bindings. Most of the volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some volumes slightly damaged. Several Volumes professionally restored and rebound in excellent recent bindings (ask for more images and detailed list). Please ask for a full list of titles. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per DHL Express Courier.