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BREECH-LOADERS
por Gloan" (Thomas Ackley Logan)
- Usado
- Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Bom
- Livreiro
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este 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).
Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 87589
- Título
- BREECH-LOADERS
- Autor
- Gloan" (Thomas Ackley Logan)
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Geo. E. Woodward
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1873
- Palavras-chave
- rifles, civil war guns
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Glossário
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
