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New Publications for 2011

New Books for October 2011

On ARTILLERY

Left, On The Physical Conditions Involved in the

Construction of Artillery , Right, The Principles and Practice of Modern Artillery

On The Physical Conditions Involved in the

Construction of Artillery

Robert Mallet

Originally published in 1856.

The author explains the methods of construction of Ordnance both from the view of a mechanical engineer with calculations, science of gun-founding, properties of materials, metallurgic, theoretic mechanics. Application & use of various materials, faults in service.

The book has 37 chapters with 320 sections, 30 detail notes in 100 pages.

With xx, 284pp ,9 plates,13 diagrams. Smaller than A4 size. Bound in dark blue balacrome cloth with gold leaf lettering on spine and canon badge on cover. Price £45. 1.1Kg.

The Principles and Practice of Modern Artillery

By Lt.Col . C.H.Owen R.A.

Originally Published 1871.

This publication is split into three parts: Pt.1 Ordnance, Carriages and Ammunition, Pt.2 Principles and Practice of Gunnery, Pt. 3 Organisation and use of Artillery in Warfare.

Part 1. covers the construction and object of the different guns, carriages,and kinds of ammunition. Part 2 covers methods of calculating practical gunnery questions, Pt. 3 includes progress from the 16 th -19 th Cent. Of Artillery, equipment, organisation, employment, siege, garrison & coast Artillery.

Part 2 Internal Ballistics and External Ballistics.

Produced A4 size xvi+472pp, 18 plates/maps of with 12 are folding .

Price £45.00. Weight 1.71Kg.

New Books on Heavy Artillery and Small Arms.

Left, The Gambardier , Right , A TREATISE on SMALL ARMS

The Gambardier

Giving an account of the Heavy and Siege Artillery in France 1914-18

Mark Severn

The author gives an account of the experience of life serving the big guns, from 1914, Festubert 1915, The Somme 1916, Arras , Ypres and Messiners 1917, Cambrai 1917 then the advance of 1918.

Hand bound in blue buckram with lettering on spine & ordnance badge on cover in red . A5 size with 224pp ,11 B & W photos, with am addition of 9 detailed scale drawings of some of the ordnance mentioned in the text.

Price £ 25.00 weight 530gms.

A TREATISE on SMALL ARMS C1852

Louis Panot .

Introduction by Bill Harriman, President of the Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain .

This Treatise covers a wide range of French small arms and edged weapons starting with the model 1822 flintlock musket, then models 1840 & 1842. The rifle muskets of 1842 & 1846 and he describes the pistols for the Cavalry and gendarmerie, Lancer and Artillery Carbines, and Naval Small Arms.

It is one of the earliest scientifically based military manuals and straddles a dividing line in military and technological history.

Panot’s treatise is an important primary source for anyone interested in small arms and covers the development of the edged weapons. It adds a new dimension to the knowledge of French military weapons of the first half of the 19 th Century.

24.5cm x16cm size with dark green Balacrome cloth, 250pp, 67 drawings in the text , Price £ 23.00 640gms.

Books on Fortifications and Military Engineering.

Left, The CASTLES of GREAT BRITIAN Right , The

ROYAL ENGINEER.

The CASTLES of GREAT BRITIAN

Sidney Toy

The author traces the development of Castles from Prehistoric Times A.D. 43 to the Forts of Artillery in the 1780’s.

With 14 chapters covering Fortifications from Prehistoric Times to the Roman Invasion, Roman Fortifications, Anglo-Saxon Fortresses, Norman Castles with Small Keeps, Norman Castles with Rectangular Keeps, Castles from 1160-1270, Buildings of the Bailey, Period of Edward the First, Weapons and Siege Operations of the Middle Ages, 14 th Cent. Towers & Castles, Development of the Tower House, Buildings of the Bailey 1270 to 1500, Towns, Bridges & Churches,

It has xiii +278pp, 73 B & W photos & over 120 illustrations, diagrams & maps. A4 size . Hand bound in grey cloth. This 2 nd ed. Pub 1954.

Price £ 37 + £ 5.00 postage ( UK ) 1.17kg.

The ROYAL ENGINEER. C1869

Right Hon. Sir Francis B.Head Bart ..

The Author gives an account of the various sections of the Royal Engineers in the late 1860’s, The establishment, Barrel Pier Bridges, the model room, drill, survey, electrical school, Submarine Mines, Torpedoes, Field-works, Printing, construction, electric telegraphs, photographic school, signalling, a soldiers knapsack, barracks, the Minie Rifle, breech-loader. In IV parts, with appendix A-E.

Produced A5 size, xii, 392pp, and7 plates. 20 pages of advertisements at the back. Bound in red Buckram material with gold leaf lettering, & Royal Arms badge to cover. Price £25.730gms.

New Book on British Military Badges

A COLLECTORS GUIDE to INFANTRY

GLENGARRY BADGES

( revised , corrected and enlarged edition)

Part 1 1851-1881

By G.F.McWilliam

Following the success of the original edition of this work, the author has extended this publication by further research and locating a further 18 new badges never before published.

This revised, corrected and enlarged edition provides the collector with FULL COLOUR photographs throughout and includes the R.M.L.I. and Army Hospital Corps as well as a collection of B & W photos of the badges being worn.

The finished A4 size book has 104 pp, with 316 badge designs and detailed expanded text on each forword , introduction, details of restrikes , auctioneers , salesrooms, terminology, bibliography, section of photographs showing badges being worn.

This book is hard bound, using buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering to spine & badge design to cover. Bound in the same style as the 1 st Edition of this title.

Price £55.00 + £3.90 P & P ( UK ) 700gms.

New Technical Publications

201 Description of the principles of a system of sighting c1877. £15

202 Fortress Warfare c1877. £5

203 The Ignition of Charges of Powder in Ordnance c1856. £10

204 Military Bridging c1854. £10

205 New Design for Breech-Loading Cannon c1870. £10

206 The New French Rifle c1876. £5

207 Gun Trials in China 1909. £10

208 Gun Cotton: An introduction to its properties & History of c1864 .£ 5

209 New Austrian, German & Russian Q.F. Guns c1905 .£ 10

210 Coast Defence by means of Curved Fire c1888. £5

211 Range and Position Finding Past and Present c1881. £10

212 Principles of Defence 1849 £10

213 Design for a new Russian Fiels Gun c1877 £10

214 The Use of Torpedoes in War c1885. £15

215 A mode of Constructing Cannon 1858 . £10

216 Notes on the Lee- Metford Rifle ( MkII ) 1895. £5

217 Modern Gunpowder and Cordite c1893. £5

218 Extracts from report on effects of firing from Casemate-Embrasures 1859 .£ 10

219 2 Large English Cannon of 15 th Cent. At Mont S.Michel , Normandy 1864 £10

220 The Tactics of Coast Defence c1889. £10

221 Machine Guns: their tactics and equipment c1887. £10

222 Remarks on Fortification with especial reference to rifled weapons 1860. £10

223 The French Field Gun c1889. £5

224 Military & Naval Use of very large shells in relation to diameter 1858.£10

225 Mountain Artillery c1854. £10

226 Magazine Rifles, their development and effects c1892.£10

227 Practice of garrison Artillery over sea ranges c1889. £10

228 Pack Maxim Guns for use of Cavalry c1911. £10

229 The Pneumatic Dynamite Torpedo Gun c1888. £5

230 Field Glasses and Optical Aids for Military Purposes c1902. £5

231 List of Armoured Ships of newer type belonging to foreign navies 1880. £5

232 The present state of the question of fortification 1866 .£ 5

233 Revolving system of sighting guns 1884.£10

234 Fortifications in Savage Warfare 1895. £15

235 Ironclads , Present and future 1870. £10

236 Personal reminiscences of the evolution of Small Arms 1863-1898. £5

237 Mount -Storms System of Breech-Loading 1864. £10

238 Provisional Fortification 1882. £15

239 Accuracy of Artillery Fire 1887. £10

240 Proposed alterations in our Military Dress, Arms 1851. £10

241 Notes on the Swiss Artillery 1899-1903. £5

242 The Defence of Portsmouth 1860. £10

243 The Austrian R.B.L. (15cm) 6-Inch Siege Gun of Bronze-Steel 1877 £5

244 Barracks c1862 £10

245 Development of Artillery Missiles during 1870 £5

246 The Dress and Accoutrements of the Infantry of the Line c1864 £5

247 Notes on Mountain Artillery c1888 £5

248 The Defence of London c1860 £5

249 Notes on the Comparatice Penetration of shot and shell from rifles and

smooth-bore Ordnance into a natural and man made earthworks c1865 £10

250 Ships versus Forts c1889 £10

Photographs of Cover designs to follow.

New Publications on Uniforms

Uniforms of The Georgian Yeomanry Cavalry 1794-1827.

By Robert J. Smith and David J. Knight

Following the highly acclaimed and well received first and second vol’s . on the History of the Uniforms of the Yeomanry Cavalry, the authors give us a further insight into the Full Dress Uniform worn by every Regiment & Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry of the Georgian period.

No publication has ever recorded before the uniform of every Regiment and Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry of the same period. As the authors have spent over 50 years researching the subject using prints, contemporary portraits, photos, order & letter books, newspaper articles, tailor & accoutrement makers pattern books, and of course surviving items of uniform & headdress. With new evidence emerging since the Ogilby Trust publications , this series of books make a comprehensive account of the dress of each Regiment or Corps for a reference guide for collectors of militaria , students of military dress and military modellers alike.

About the book

This follows the same format as the first two books with an Introduction, general notes on the Yeomanry of that period, notes on Yeomanry uniforms of this period, then information on 70 Corp’s which served in the various Counties. With each corp’s organization, C.O., strength, notable events, then a detailed description of their Full Dress : Headdress ( Tarleton helmet or Shako), Jacket, leg wear, arms & accoutrements, saddlery & horse furniture starting with the Officers & then the NCO’s & Men.

Due to this very early period being covered and the very limited material which exists, often only a portrait or single item of kit, ,a tailors diagram or a written description, the authors have made an attempt to record what is known and create a series of snapshots of what the various corps were actually wearing.

Book specification

With vi, 248pp,over 290 B & W photos/ B & W copies of original paintings/ Drawings & detailed illustrations of uniform,headress , sabretache designs almost all published for the first time and 20 colour plates showing 44 different Full Dress uniform. These are from the original paintings of David J.Knight .

The book A4 size, using coated art paper, hand bound in dark blue balacrome cloth, gold leaf lettering on spine & special badge design on cover. With hand made Spanish marble endpapers.

Orders are now being taken before the 18 th April for the first production run which will be ready mid-May.

Cost £ 70.00 + postage 1.20 Kg weight .( £8.90 postage UK ) send e-mail for price of postage outside UK

ARTILLERY

Photo above,

VICTORIAN

SMOOTH BORE SERVICE

ORDNANCE

Ian James Cross

This new work starts with the smooth bore ordnance in service at the end of the Napoleonic Wars , that in service between 1815-1820 then a discussion of developments that took place between 1820 and 1865.

The author draws on a vast collection of contemporary sources and authors, original drawings and illustrations many of which have never been seen or used by the modern day researcher.

With 18 chapters, 5 appendices, the subjects covered being : Early Victorian Artillery Services, Smooth Bore Ordnance before 1820, Sea & Land S.B. Ordnance after 1820, Manufacture, Proof & Marking, Field, Siege & Mountain Gun Carriages, Garrison Carriages, Sea Service Carriages, Limbers & other vehicles, Transport Animals, Powder, Magazines, Cartridges, Projectiles, Fuzes , Ignition, Laying and Gun Drill, Tactics, War rockets.

Ordnance in Service at various times, Ordnance emplaced at Gibraltar , Malta & Bermuda c1860, S.B. Ordnance used in Land Actions 1837-1865.

With xxiv, 248pp, A4 size pages ,221 A4 size plates showing over 450 detailed drawings of carriages, barrels, equipment, ammunition, tools, fuzes , cannon locks, animal harness, cross sectional drawings.

A coloured title page.

Hand bound in dark blue “ Balacrome ” cloth, gold leaf lettering to spine & special cannon badge on cover.

Cost £ 50.00 + Postage £7 ( UK ) weight 1.6Kg

Photo L-R: Manual of Volunteer Position Artillery, Field Gunnery.

Manual

Volunteer Position Artillery c1890

Capt. H.C.C.D.Simpson R.A.

This small manual for the Volunteer Corps, gives movement , drill, equipment, organization, parade and various instruction, mount, di mount of Ordnance and many other details.

Hand bound in blue buckra, gold leaf lettering & R.M.L. Gun badge design on cover ,A5 size with viii 134pp, 5 plates, 11 pages of diagrams of packing for Volunteer Battery using 40-pd, 20-pd, 16-pd R.M.L. guns.

Price £ 21.00 weight 370gms.

FIELD GUNNERY

A practical manual prepared

with special reference to the heavies.c1916

D.A.MaCalister , R.G.A.

This small but compact publication has 13 chapters and covers such subjects as : Mathematical data of field gunnery, field forumulae , aiming point, displacement, methods, indication of target, ranging and methods of fire, the battery leader’s control fire, fuse indicator and time shrapnel, ballistics, results of fire practice, high angle firing howitzers.

Hand bound in blue buckram with lettering on spine & ordnance badge on cover in gold leaf . A5 size with xii ,152pp,15 tables, 89 ill in text .

Price £ 21.00 weight 400gms.

New Publications

Artillery, Fortifications & Equipment.

Photo. L-R: Sword ,Lance & Bayonet, Military Engineering during the Great Civil War,

Notes on the Early History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery

Notes on the

Early History

The Royal Regiment

of Artillery

C ol. F.D.Cleaveland

The account of this early history starts from 1267 in the reign of Henry III and continues to 1757 in the reign of George III. Giving listings of various establishment, names quoted, rates of pay, uniform & equipment issued etc. from contemporary sources. Bound with dark blue buckram cloth, gold leaf Royal Regiment of Artillery badge on cover & lettering to spine.

With 272pp, 8vo.various tables of information.

Price £ 25.00. 650 gms .

Military Engineering

During the

Great Civil War

1642-49

Lt.Col . W.R.Ross .

With 6 sections of: Introduction, General remarks on Military Engineering, Systems of Fortifications approved of in England, Organization and Establishments of the Engineering Department, Ordnance and Projectiles in use, Duties and Employment in Field and Fortress, and an Appendix with account of fortifications of London, surrender of Bristol, Siege of Basing House, and Colchester.

24.5 x 16cm siz , 122pp, with 15 fold out plates showing siege details, layout drawings of Hull, Portsmouth, Reading, Bristol, London, Oxford, Plymouth, Liverpool, Newark, Worcester, Donnington Castle, Basing, Colchester, & Tilbury.

Bound in period binding, gold leaf lettering to spine Cost £23. 500 gm.

SWORD, LANCE & BAYONET

A record of the Arms of the British Army & Navy.

Charles Ffoulkes , C.B, O.B.E.

and Major Hopkinson , M.C.

This book covers the development of the edged weapons used by the British Army & Navy from the early regulations, warrents & recordes . Sources quoted from 1672 to 1900. With subjects of Belts, Slings Knots, Lance, Bayonet and Staff Weapons. Notes on Tests done on various weapons, and an Appendix covering Muskets, Rifles and Carbines.

24.5cm x16cm size with dark green Balacrome cloth , xvi,143pp , 80 drawings in the text ,plus 7 pages of 40 photographs showing sword hilt designs. Price £ 23.00 480gms .

New Technical Publications

As series of booklets covering subjects of interest to Artillery, Fortifications and the general collector are being made available for the first time in their original size since they were first published from the 1850’s onwards.

Each subject is published in a card cover booklet 16cm x 24.5cms. ( their original size) with plans & fold outs carefully folded & placed in the place as the originals were.

These publications can be supplied in two ways:

Folded & stapled as a booklet.
Pages cut to single pages & punched to fit our binder.

Binders of dark blue buckram cloth with gold leaf lettering & badge on spine & cover. Each with Spanish marbled endpapers, spring clip & compression bar can be supplied.

These cost at the moment £18.00 + postage.

They are made to order as additional ones have different Vol. numbers.

This range of new publications will have between 2-4 issued per month covering as wider subject matter as possible and cost between £5 - £15.00 depending the content & complexity of production.

171 Notes on the Organization & Armament of the Artillery of the B. A.c1856 £5

172 The use of Balloons in Military Operations c1863 £10

173 New Artillery Designs:Muzzle -Pivoting Gun/”MacKay” Gun c1868 £10

174 Explosive Bullets and their Application to Military Purposes c1868 £10

175 Coast Artillery Practice c1893 £10

176 Notes on the Employment of Submarine Mines in America during the late Civil

War c1866 £15

177 The Employment of Mirailleurs during the Recent War c187 £102

178 Breech-Loaders with reference to Calibre ,Supply and cost of Ammo. c1867 £10

179 The Equipment of Field Artillery c1881 £10

180 Military Pontoons, with suggestions for their improvement c1860 £10

181 Rifled Ordnance c1860 £10

182 Submerged Discharge of Whitehead and other Automobile Torpedos c1893 £5

183 Steam-Powered versus Sail-Power for Men-of-War c1878 £5

184 Breech-Loaders for the Army & Gun Cotton as an explosive agent c1864 £15

185 The Revolving System of Firing Great Guns c1869 £10

186 Gun-Locks and their History c1859. £10

187 A Brief Sketch of the present state of British Gunnery c1887 £5

188 The Fortifications of Deligrad and their Influence during the Turco-Servian War

of 1876. £10

189 The Construction of British Ordnance c1854 £15

190 Steam Transport on Roads c1894 £10

191 The Italian Field Gun (Bronze) c1876 £ 10

192 The New Design for Pecussion , Concussion, Time ,Electric Fuzes c1882 £10

193 Mountain Artillery, its Organisation ,Equipment and Tactics c1887 £10

194 Field Fortifications c1854 £ 15

195 Contributions to Technology of Foreign Rifled Ordnance c1864 £10

196 Foreign Attempts at making Rifles of Smaller Calibre c1889 £10

197 Coast Railways and Railway Artillery & Wright’s Artillery Railway and Gun

Carriage c1865 £10

198 Foreign Armour Experiments and Bombardment of the Forts of Alexandria £10

199 Artillery Experiments at Okehampton c1875 £10

200 Some Aspects of Coast Defence c1894 £10

More to follow.

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

New Mini-Book size publications

A range of titles which are often a series of parts republished as a complete title, of larger size (page No’s & contents) Technical Publications. For single booklets they come with card covers & spine, the contents being spiral bound to open out flat. For collectors wanting the cut & punched pages they are supplied the same as the standard Technical Publications”

MB1 The General Arrangement & Practical working of the Artillery Defences of

a first class Coast Fortress, Protecting a harbour and Dockyard 1886 by Major White, Major Rainsford-Hannay & Captain Nash. 50pp

MB2 Horse Artillery. 1759-1870 by Captain W.J.Robertson 1888. 74pp, 1 plates with 3 illustrations , 12 tables, 2 illustrations in text (RAI).

MB3 The History of Artillery 1400’s-1815 By R.Flenley 1920 , 80pp. (RAI).

MB 4 The Mobility of Field Artillery Past and Present by Captain Hime, pub1870-3 84pp, 5 tables, 10 illustrations in text (RAI)

MB5 The Effects on the Bombardment of the forts of Alexandria July 11 th 1882 .

by Captain Walford . pub 1883, 60pp, 17 tables, 13 plates of maps/plans with 30 illustrations of fortifications etc. (RUSI)

MB6 Historical Sketch of the Defences of Dover by Major-Gen. C.S.Akers.1886 (REI)

MB7 Recent Development of Field Artillery Material on the Continent. 1902.

by Captain L.R.Kenyon, 100pp, 7 tables, 10 plates with 17 illustrations/B&W photos. 41 illustrations in the text (REI)

MB8 Studies in Fortress Warfare c1884 by Captain Clarke and Lt. Nathan, 80pp, 3 Tables, 10 Plates/Maps fold out (REI)

MB9 The Russian Artillery in 1888 by Captain C.A’Court. 84pp, 32 Tables, 47 Plates, 5 fold out , with 100+ illustrations of Ammunition, Barrels, Breech-mechanism, fuzes, carriages, limbers, wagons, Mountain , Siege, Coast, Fortress, Heavy, Field, Artillery, Howitzers, Mortars, Ordnance. (RUSI)

MB10 The Development of the Thornycroft Torpedo-Vessel. c1877, 1881 & 1889 by John Donaldson M.Inst. C.E., 76pp, 35 Plates (8 pull out) with over 100 ill/drawings of vessels & equipment, to scale showing development and construction (RUSI)

MB11 Notes on Mechanism as applied to Artillery 1902 by Capt. Von Donop, R.A., 86pp.91 illustrations in text (OHMS)

MB12 Permanent Fortification c1854. by Lt. Tyler. R.E. 50pp, 22 Plates with 94 detailed ill/plans to scale of Fortress/Fortifications of various types to the design of Coehorn, Montalembert, Bastion & German system. Also details of Fougass ordinaries, shot furnace, fuze for mines, Gabions. (REI)

MB13 The Remarks on the system of Ordnance, Floating Batteries, Defence of the Country by Lt. Col. Boxer 1862. 86pp. (RAI)

MB14 Land Fortification Past, Present and Future c1889. by Major. G.S.Clarke.R.E. 100pp, 17 plates (13 fold out pages) detailed scale drawings/plans of : Lisle, Arab Tabia, Sebastopol , Defence of Paris, Belfont, Plevna, Disappearing Cupola of 12cm, 53mm Q.F. Gun, Travelling shield mounting, 21cm Spherical Mortar shielded, disappearing gun on rail truck. (RAI)

MB15 The Character of Gun best adapted for Naval Warfare, as gathered from the various plans of Guns proposed by Capt. Fishbourne, 1862. 56pp, 14 plans showing sectional drawings of gun barrels, ammunition, rifling details. (RUSI)

MB16 Ancient Cannon in Europe , from their first employment to AD 1400 c1864. by Lt. H.Brackenbury R.A. 58pp. (RAI)

Cost £17.00 per booklet + postage. More to follow

NEW BOOKS FOR 2010

NEW PUBLICATIONS for October

NEW PUBLICATIONS

ARTILLERY

Photo above, L. A Plain Treatise on Artillery 1849, R. A Treatise of such Mathematical Inftruments put into a portable case, with the

Description of the use of GUNNERS CALLIPERS, SHIP-GUNS, &

SEA-MORTARS. C1775

Book open showing plate from book.

P lain T reatise on

A rtillery

By Thos . Gaisford Captain, Bombay Artillery.

The Author provides a Treatise on Artillery in two parts bound as one publication. These being in Part 1 the notes of instruction” which every Artilleryman should be familiar”, Part 2 being repository exercises, gun carriages, field batteries, platforms, and equipment of siege ordnance.

Published in 1849 in Ahmednuggur , whilst Thomas Gaisford was Captain and Director of the Depot of Instruction, Bombay Artillery.

Part 1 with viii, 36pp, Part 2 viii ,86pp , with a total of 40 tables. A4 size. Bound in dark blue balacrome cloth with gold leaf lettering on spine and canon badge on cover. Price £45. 940gms.

T REATISE

of such Mathematical Inftruments put into a portable case, with the

Description of the use of

GUNNERS CALLIPERS,

SHIP-GUNS, & SEA-MORTARS.

C1775

JOHN ROBERTSON

This edition is produced A4 size a preface xxiii, 238pp, with tables, & detailed pull out drawings showing The English Gunners Callipers, Ships Cannon & Sea Mortar. The text has various mathematical calculations, details of instruments & drawing methods etc. 3pp listing of other titles of the period.

This edition produced with period finish, hand bound with dark blue buckram cloth , hard covers, gold leaf lettering and simulated raised bands to the spine.

Price £ 45.00 + £6.00 postage( UK ) 1.1Kg.

Photo above, L. The Story of the Guns( Artillery) 1864, R.Field Artillery its equipment, organisation and tactics 1896.

The Story of The Guns( Artillery) c1864

by Sir J.Emerson Tennent

At a period of great change, this publication gives the reader a current position on the race to supply the perfect Rifle Ordnance. It is split up into three parts: .1 The Rifled Musket, 2. Rifled Ordnance, 3. The Iron Navy. With a commentary of the development of the new Rifled Ordnance, its tests and trials and the competition between Amstrong and Whitworth to supply the Services. With 33 illustrations/engravings. Produced A5 size xxii,364pp , hand bound with dark blue buckram cloth, hard covers, gold leaf lettering Ordnance badge on cover in gold leaf.

Price £25. 650gms,

FIELD ARTILLEY

Its Equipment, Organisation and Tactics. c1896

Lt.Col . Sission.C Pratt R.A.

This small but compact publication has 15 chapters and covers such subjects as : The Gun, carriages, ammunition, gunnery, formation, Artillery in the field, a good position, action of a single Battery, attack of a small force,on the defence, employment of horse Artillery with Cavalry,escorts , local combats, fighting of the future.

Hand bound in blue buckram with lettering on spine & ordnance badge on cover in gold leaf . A5 size with xii ,250pp .

Price £ 21.00 weight 500gms.

New PUBLICATIONS ON

MILITARY FORTIFICATION

In PHOTO, L . Military Architecture of the Middle Ages c1879

R . CASTLES, A Short History of Fortification from 1600B.C. to A.D.1600

In PHOTO , Military Architecture of the Middle Ages c1879 with book open showing detailed engraving.

Military Architecture of the Middle Ages

Translated from the French of E.Viollet -Le-Duc

M.Macdermott , Architect.

With the Original French Engravings

This second edition pub. 1879 with an introduction by John Henry Parke . The original first edition was translated and published in 1860.

The author covers in great details the development of Military Architecture from the Roman period through the “Norman style”, and to the advancements of the 12 th & 13 th century. Each improvement in style & change in Fortifications is covered , the alteration of defence with the introduction of Artillery, Cannons of the 15 th Century, with modifications of Towers & Castles, use of Ramparts, Trenches, Cavalier, Ravelins , Mines & Countermines, Castles at the end of the 15 th Cent.,Bastions according to De Ville, System of Vauban .

There are over 40 different locations of fortifications studied.

This edition A4 size, xvi, 274pp , with 151 detailed drawings of which many are “birds eye” views. Bound in period binding, spine blocking and special period badge on cover in gold leaf .

Cost £45. weight 1.03 Kg

CASTLES, A Short History of Fortification from 1600B.C. to A.D.1600

Sidney Toy

The author traces the development of Fortifications through Mesopotamia , Asia minor , Greece , Rome , Byzantine fortifications from the 5 th to 10 th Cent., Western Europe from 5 th to 11 th Cent., Byzantine & Saracenic Fortifications of the 10 th Cent., Rectangular & Transitional Keeps. Seige Engines & operations of the Middle Ages, Castles 1190 to 1270, Towns, Fortified Bridges , Towers, Gatehouses, and Defences. Development of the tower house, 16 th Cent. Forts.

It has xiv +242pp, 66 B & W photos & over 170 illustrations, diagrams & maps. A4 size . Hand bound in grey cloth

Price £ 37 + £ 5.00 postage ( UK ) 960gms.

Photo above, L. FIELD FORTIFICATION. Notes on the TEXT-BOOKS 1897

R. TREATISE on COAST DEFENCE c1865

Photo above , TREATISE on COAST DEFENCE ( US )c1865 book open showing title page detail.

FIELD FORTIFICATION.

Notes on the TEXT-BOOKS

Specially designed and arranged for use of Officers

preparing for Promotion Examinations.

Colonel H.D.Hutchinson .

Published in 1897, this forth edition has been up-dated with the various changes in armaments and conditions. It has 17 chapters : Artillery, projectiles,penetration , Field Defences, improved field defences, obstacles, revetments, field-works, garrisons, trace of field-works, lines of works,

Defence of villages, houses ,woods , military bridging, hasty demolitions, camping arrangements.

Produced A5 size, x, 142, and 36pages of advertisements at the back. With

34 plates containing over 200 illustrations, Bound in red Buckram material with gold leaf lettering, & Royal Arms badge to cover. Price £25. 490gms.

TREATISE on COAST DEFENCE

Based on the experienced gained by Officers of the Confederate States during the North American War from 1861 to 1865

Lt.Col . Von Scheliha , Confedrate Army .

This classic work covering the experience in Military Coast Defence of the Civil War has 22 chapters covering subjects of : progress made in Naval architecture and artillery and the modification needed to coast defence, types of fortification and their state to withstand modern artillery, protection of guns mounted ”en barbette”, various obstructions floating and fixed, torpedoes & mines, methods of lighting up channels.

With vi, 326pp, A4 size ,12 plates showing detailed drawings of equipment/maps, in addition to various drawings in the text. Hand bound in scarlet buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering to spine & special US badge on cover.

Cost £ 45.00 + Postage £7 ( UK ) weight 1.33Kg

New PUBLICATIONS ON

EQUIPMENT and MILITARY

TRANSPORT

Photo above, L. Army Equipment 1865 Part IV, Equipment of Military Train &

Part VI Commissariat Staff Corps,

R. Mechanical Traction in War for Road Transport c1900 .

Photo above, Mechanical Traction in War for Road Transport c1900 .

Book open showing plate from book.

Army Equipment 1865. Part IV, Equipment of Military Train &

Part VI Commissariat Staff Corps

Compiled by Lt. H.M. Hozier .

This is the only detailed publication available on the early period of equipment of the Military Train & Commissariat Staff Corps.

The illustrations to accompany this part of the series were unfinished when this descriptive portion was finished so, the text was published and due to the number of changes in such a short period the illustrations were never issued.

Due to the Commissariat Staff Corps Part VI being only a small section, both parts have been published together as one book.

They cover: Classification of Equipment ,Organization , Composition & Strength, Personal Equipment, Horse Equipment, Ammunition, General Stores, Equipment for Ambulance Wagon, General Service Wagon, Forage Wagon, Tools of Artificers, Hospital Equipment, Veterinary Equipment, Camp Equipment , Transport, Tonnage, Marks on Packages and Stores.

In addition Part VI contains:

Baker’s, Butcher’s Carpenter’s, Smith’s, Cooper’s, Wheelright’s & Saddle-tree Maker’s, Harness and Collar Makere’s , Bricklayer’s and Mason Equipment. Equipment for Army in the Field.

Full details of all uniform, equipment etc. of Officers & OR’s.

With tables showing the size, weight & cost of the various equipment & items.

With a total size of 218pp A4 size pages. Bound in maroon buckram, gold leaf lettering &

royal coat of arms to cover.

Cost £ 25.00 + £5.00 Postage( UK ). 870 gms

Mechanical Traction in War for Road Transport

With notes on Automobiles generally

By Lt. Col. Otfried Layriz ( German Army)

This early publication on Military Mechanical Traction provides the reader with the latest (c1900) material on the use of traction engine and other automobiles and their use for military applications in time of war. With additional footnotes and references for their use in the South African War. .

Starting with a general introduction, then a History of Mechanical Traction from the Cugnot’s Locomotive of 1769 to Boydell T.E. used in the Crimean War,then onto 1886. Chapters on: The Automobile without train, as a Traction Engine, attempts to replace the steam motor by other kinds of motors, relation of supply transport by means of Traction Engines to that by field railways, M.R.T. must be in a country before it can be usefully employed in war time.

An Appendix giving a resume of experiments in Mechanical Traction with road locomotives for war purposes from 1875-1900.

A very good selection of line drawings & B & W photos showing engine’s, coaches etc. inc. Lord Roberts Armoured Road Train (1899).

With 102pp 28 plates with 46 detailed illustrations.A4 size. Bound in maroon buckram, gold leaf lettering & traction eng. badge on cover.

Cost £ 25.00. 1.02 Kg.

NEW PUBLICATION on UNIFORMS

Photo above, The Cutter’s Practical Guide to British Military & Naval Uniforms 1881-1914. With colour plate in background from book Vol. 1.

Photo above, The Cutter’s Practical Guide to British Military & Naval Uniforms 1881-1914. Showing all three Vol’s .

Photo above, The Cutter’s Practical Guide to British Military & Naval Uniforms 1881-1914. Showing book open with one of many detailed illustrations of the uniform designs & cutting measurements etc.

The Cutter’s Practical Guide to British Military & Naval Uniforms 1881-1914.

By W.D.Vincent

Following the introduction of various new editions of Dress Regulations is was necessary for the private tailor to offer their customers the most accurate & minutest detailed work required to conform with these official regulations. The method described was adopted by the Army Clothing Depot at Pimlico and used by may leading Master Tailors in the Service.

The work is in a series of parts each bound and presented `in the same size & format:

Vol. 1. The Cutting of Military Garments includingTunics , Frock Coats, Service Frocks, Mess Jackets, Overcoats, Capes, Vests, Trousers, Overalls, Pantaloons.(with additional parts to 1914)

.95pp, plates showing rank badges, Reg. Badges, 84 illustrations inc. full fig showing uniform ,70 cutting patterns. Also a pull out colour plates showing full figure illustrations (see photo above). 840gms

Vol. 2 Coat Cutting and Making,Morning , Frock, Dress Coats for Court, Military, Naval, Volunteer, Police Uniforms, Clerical, Juvenile, working mans. Vol 2. 119pp, 47 illustrations including 2 plates of Naval & Military Officers rank trimmings on cuffs. 60 cutting patterns. 920 gms

Vol. 3. Jacket Cutting and making, Lounges, Reefers & Patrol Jackets, and making Robes & Gowns. Vol 2. 119pp, 47 illustrations including 2 plates of Naval & Military Officers rank trimmings on cuffs. 60 cutting patterns. 920 gms

Book specification

The books are A4 size, hand bound in red buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering on spine & special badge design on cover

Each book cost £ 35.00 + postage (weight as above))

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

Each subject is published in a card cover booklet 16cm x 24.5cms. ( their original size) with plans & fold outs carefully folded & placed in the place as the originals were.

These publications can be supplied in two ways:

Folded & stapled as a booklet.
Pages cut to single pages & punched to fit our binder.

Binders of dark blue buckram cloth with gold leaf lettering & badge on spine & cover. Each with Spanish marbled endpapers, spring clip & compression bar can be supplied.

These cost at the moment £18.00 + postage.

They are made to order as additional ones have different Vol. numbers.

This range of new publications will have between 2-4 issued per month covering as wider subject matter as possible and cost between £5 - £15.00 depending the content & complexity of production.

The NEW selection of Technical Publications are as follows:

71. The Field Gun of 1903-1905. £10

72. Coast Defence 1886. £10

73. Equipment of Artillery( Naval & Military) 1854. £10

74. Revolvers and their use 1886. £10

75. Machine Guns in the Field 1884. £15

76. Military Equipment 1878. £10

77. Magazine Rifles and Repeaters 1883. £10

78. Military Ballooning 1883. £5

79. Principles on Construction of Carriages 1871. £10

80. Offensive Torpedo Warfare 1871. £10

81. Mountings for Coast Artillery 1897. £15

82. The Block House System in the South African War 1900. £15

83. Report on the 7-Inch Wrought-Iron Guns 1864. £5

84. Suggestions on Transport of the Future 1883. £10

85. The Ordnance (Artillery) of 1854. £10

86. Forts of To- Day 1883 . £10

87. The Field Gun of 1907-1909. £10

88. The Defence of Harbours by Submarine Mines .£ 10

89. The Range-Finder 1872. £10

90. Compound Guns, Many- Barralled Rifle Battaries 1874. £15

91. Historical Notes on the Royal Arsenal & Old Woolwich 1868. £10

92. Equipment and Services of our Mountain Artillery .£ 10

93. Improvements in Lights for Signalling in the Navy & Army 1878. £5

94. A Descriptive History of Quick Firing Guns 1889. £10

95. Magazine and Repeating Rifles 1887. £10

96. The Heavy Guns of 1884. £10

97. Military( or Strategic) and Refuge Harbours 1875. £10

98. Artillery Instruments not of Service Type 1919. £15

99. Notes on the Shrapnel Shell 1864. £5

100. Surveys on the English Coast 1779-1793. £10

101. The New Austrian Field Guns c1877 £10.

102. Improving Artillery Fire by Capt. Scott’s System 1881 by Captain Scott, £10

103. Artillery in Coast Defence 1892 by Major Hansard , £15.

104 Progress of Ordnance abroad compared with that at Home 1864 by Commander Scott, £10.

105 Historical Sketch of the Coast Defences of England 1886 £10.

106 Machine -Guns 1883 by Captain, Lord Bersford , R.N., £10.

107 Military Small Arms 1891 by Lt.Col.Fosbery V.C £10.

108 The Field Gun of 1913 by Colonel Bethell )£10.

109 Dress and Equipment with practical illustrations £10.

110 New Weapons of 1886 various authors, £10..

111 The Milford Haven Experiments 1886 by Captain Rainsford-Hannay , £10.

112 The Pneumatic Dynamite Gun c1888 by Captain De H Haig , £10.

113 Power Pressures in the first 35-ton Gun c1873 by Commander Dawson, £10.

114 Field Telegraph: Its work in recent campaigns & present orgnization 1884 £ 10.

115 The Laying for Night Firing by Collimator & Night-Sight Vain c1869 £10.

116 Types of works for Coast Defence c1887 by Major Lewis, £10.

117 Entrenched Camps and Detached Forts c1887 by Captain Jackson, £10.

118 An Improved War-Rocket for use in both Military/ Naval Operations 1877 £10.

119 Fortifications since the introduction of High-Explosive Shells 1895 £10.

120 Progress of Ordnance Abroad compared with that at Home 1862 £ 10.

121 Use of Railways for Coast and Harbour Defence 1891£10.

122 The Principles which should guide the construction of Heavy Ordnance

and materials of same 1879. £10.

123 Early Breech-Loaders 1865 by John Latham, £10. .

124 Machine Guns and How to use them 1882 by Mr. Gardner, £15.

125 Mance’s Heliograph or Sun-Telegraph/Heliograph and Army Signalling £5.

126 A proposal for a very heavy B. L. gun of novel construction 1870 £10.

127 The Lay and Locomotive Torpedoes for the purpose of Coast Defence £10.

128 Military Cycling 1888 by Lt. Savile , £5.

129 Hints for applications of Shrapnel Shell & Shrapnel of the Past 1864 £10.

130 The Defence of Coasts of England , Ireland and Scotland in 1886 £5.

131 Quick-Firing Gun in the Field 1888 by Mr. Nordenfelt , £15

132 Military Transport/ Land Transport Service of the Army/ 1869 £5.

133 Present Position of the Armour question 1884 £10 ..

134 Field Engineering in the light of Modern Warfare 1904 £ 10..

135 Hydro-Pneumatic Gear for Siege and Heavy Ordnance 1885 £15.

136 Guns and Armour in engagements with ships 1888

137 Modern Field Artillery 1880

138 Defensive Submarine Warfare 1871

139 The Pneumatic Torpedo-Gun, its use ashore and afloat 1889

140 The Automobile, and its possible use for military purpose/Mechanical

transport for military purposes 1901

141 The Shape of Sword Blades 1862 £10

142 Torpedo Boat: reference to those built by messrs Yarrow & Co. 1884 £15

143 Coast Defence Systems from Foreign Sources 1888 £5

144 Heavy Guns and Heavy Shells Vs Light Guns and Light Shells 1891 £5

145 The new (Enfield-Martini )Rifle & its comparison with other Rifles 1886 £15

146 The History of the Bayonet 1863 £10

147 The best type of Gun for the British ,including the question of Q.F.Guns 1893 £5

148 The Naval Defence of the United Kingdom 1888 £5

149 Submarine Boats 1886 £10

150 The New Cavalry Sword 1908 £10

151 Machine Guns their use and abuse 1886 £10

152 On Fortified Camps and Fortresses 1880 £5

153 Field Artillery and Okehampton Experiences 1895 £10

154 Telegraphy for Naval and Military Purposes 1863 £5

155 Modern Types of Guns 1884 £10

156 Historical Sketch of Defences of Malta c1879 £10

157 Working Heavy Guns by Manual ,Hydraulic and Steam Machinery c1879 £10

158 Mild Steel Applied to Naval and Military Purposes c1885 £5

159 The Development of Field Artillery Material c1891 £10

160 On Visual Signalling c1881 £5

New Mini-Book size publications

A range of titles which are often a series of parts republished as a complete title, of larger size (page No’s & contents) Technical Publications. For single booklets they come with card covers & spine, the contents being spiral bound to open out flat. For collectors wanting the cut & punched pages they are supplied the same as the standard Technical Publications”

MB1 The General Arrangement & Practical working of the Artillery Defences of a first class Coast Fortress, Protecting a harbour and Dockyard 1886

MB2 Horse Artillery. 1759-1870 by Captain W.J.Robertson 1888

MB3 The History of Artillery 1400’s-1815 By R.Flenley 1920.

MB 4 The Mobility of Field Artillery Past and Present by Captain Hime 1870-3

MB5 The Effects on the Bombardment of the forts of Alexandria July 11 th 1882 . by Captain Walford . 1883

MB6 Historical Sketch of the Defences of Dover by Major-General C.S.Akers . 1886

MB7 Recent Development of Field Artillery Material on the

Continent. 1902. by Captain L.R.Kenyon

MB8 Studies in Fortress Warfare c1884 by Captain Clarke and Lt. Nathan,

MB9 The Russian Artillery in 1888 by Captain C.A’Court

MB10 The Development of the Thornycroft Torpedo-Vessel.

Cost £17.00 per booklet + postage.

Postage 70p ( UK ) per booklet . 5 or more sent post free.

For cover designs and more detailed listings please see in the “Technical Publications” section of “Publications”

More to follow watch this space.

RARE BOOKS ON

BRITISH SMOOTH-BORE ARTILLERY

of the 1860’.

Above L-R: Elementary Lectures on Artillery, Rough Notes on the Manufacture of Ordnance etc.

Produced for the use of the Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military Academy .

The following two publications were originally bound as 3 works in I with original watercolour paintings in the form of plates illustrated by the Gentleman Cadet as he attended the lectures and did the practical elements of the course. These paintings were bound with the books and course notes to form a unique record of manufacture, testing, usage of Ordnance, Carriages & Ammunition of the Smooth-Bore period.

ELEMENTARY LECTURES on ARTILLERY 4 th Edition

by Charles H. Brown.

This publication contains notes on the History of Artillery, Construction of Ordnance, Description of Smooth-Bore Ordnance, Artillery Carriages, Beds, Platforms, Ammunition. Gunnery, application of Gunnery, Organisation, Equipment and application of Artillery. With 261pp, 32 plates which 10 are A3 size fold out.

With the addition of “Rough Drawings on Artillery” watercolour paintings of which there are 13 colour plates which 5 are A3 fold out size. The standard book has on the left hand side of the pages scholarly annotations and calculations on almost every page.

ROUGH NOTES

on the

MANUFACTURE of ORDNANCE, CARRIAGES, and AMMUNITION .

With

NOTES on GUNPOWDER

With TACKLES and PURCHASES.

The above two titles bound in one book along with Tackles and Purchase and a series of Practice Reports to form a rare combination of printed text book, practical reports, illustrated notes & paintings and use of Ordnance.

With 100pp+6 plates, 25pp+ 4 A3 fold out plates, 15pp of Practical Reports. In addition to 31 full colour plates of copies of the original watercolour paintings.

The contents of the book are : Manufacture of Cast Ordnance, of B.L. Built up, M.L. Built up, Bouching of M.L. Ordnance, Inspection and Proof, Sighting, painting, browning. Manufacture of Carriages, Platforms, timber, wooden carriages, traversing platforms, repair of wooden carriages. Manufactures of Ammunition, combustible components, Projectiles for S.B. Ordnance, Projectiles for B.L. and M.L. Ordnance, Fuzes , Cartridges, Wads, Lubricators, Tubes, Small Arm Ammunition, Rockets. Followed by the practical section on Tackles and Purchases, followed by Practical Reports of Ordnance used by the Gentleman Cadet covering all types & sizes of Gun in service with the services during that period.

Notes on Gunpowder covers the ingredients, manufacture and proof of gunpowder with copies of lithographs of the principal machines used for the manufacture of gunpowder by the Royal Powder Factories at Waltham Abbey in the 1860’s.

With copies of the original Colour plates covering Manufacture of Ordnance, Manufacture of Carriages, Manufacture of Ammunition

In Conclusion, the above two titles form an in-site into the state of Smooth -Bore Artillery use, testing, manufacturing etc along with a collection of hand written notes made by the student during his lectures and practical work of visiting the works in Woolwich, using the Ordnance in proof firing and attending the latest demonstrations of carriage design including the then new

Moncrieff Gun system.

Publishing Specification of a book of the mid Victorian Period.

Each of the above two publications are A4 size, printed using coated art paper, hand bound in dark blue balacrome cloth, simulated raised band design on spine with gold leaf lettering on spine & special badge design on cover. With hand made Spanish marble endpapers. Bound to match each other .

Price

Cost £ 85.00 each publication + postage (weight of Lectures on Artillery 1.50 Kg, Rough Notes on Manufacture 1.4Kg weight.) ( £ 8.60 postage per book UK.) e-mail for price of postage outside UK

SPECIAL OFFER

Orders are now being taken before the 15 th April for the first production run which will be ready mid-May.

If BOTH titles are ordered together they will cost

£150.00 + postage.

More Books on BRITISH ARTILLERY

Above L-R: Artillery: its progress and present position, Short Notes on Field Batteries.

ARTILLERY:

Its Progress and Present Position.

By E.W. Lloyd & A.G.Hadcock .

Originally Published 1893, In two Parts with Appendix

This publication gives a serious overview of the state of Gunnery both of the Army & Navy at a time when new technologies are coming in to service . The authors use their experience at Elswick and Woolwick Arsenal . Describing many guns and ancillaries, hoists, with all forms of weapons, ammunition and defenses . The book contents cover the subjects :

Part 1 Artillery before & after the Crimean, Gun-construction, Naval Gun Mountings, Hydraulic Gun-Mountings, Quick Firing Guns, Coast-Defence Guns and mountings, Ammunition, Field ,Mountain and Siege Artillery.

Part 2 Internal Ballistics and External Ballistics. Appendix covers details of the various illustrations, tables.

Produced A4 size xii+463pp, 93 plates+folding table.

Price £45.00. Weight 1.94Kg.

SHORT

Notes on Field Batteries c1871

Capt. C . Orde Browne R.A.

This small manual of two parts bound as one, gives a practical use and principles of arrangement of horses in a Battery , fitting of harness handling of guns in the field, and the working of a mounted Battery . With Part 2 giving details of Ammunition (Boxer, Shrapnel, light balls, Double shell, Case shot, Common Shell) Rockets, Ammunition for small arms, Fuzes , Time, Percussion, Mitrailleuses .

Hand bound in blue buckram smaller than A5 size with iv+ 51pp 22 figs in text, viii+120pp+ 40 figs in text.

Price £ 21.00 weight 410gms.

Above L-R: Handbook of Artillery Material 3 rd Ed, A Primer for Garrison Artillery, A Primer for Horse, Field & Mountain Artillery.

Handbook

Artillery Materiel

3 rd Edition

Major F.C.Morgan R.A

This third edition revised and is now used as a textbook for Royal Artillery Officers qualifying for promotion in the subject “Artillery”

Subjects covered include: Materials used in Gun Construction, Rifle Muzzle-Loading built-up Guns, R.M.L. converted Guns, Old Patten R.B.L. Guns, Smooth-Bore Guns, Breech-Loading Guns, Gunpowder, Cartridges, Projectiles, Fuzes , Tubes, Field & Siege Carriages, Carriages & Platforms for Heavy Ordnance, Transporting carriages and Machines, Tackles, cordage, skidding, sheers, derricks, Gunnery.

With x ,116pp Enlarged by 30% each page being A4 size, 19 plates XI tables. Bound in blue buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering & badge Price £ 30.00. Weight 1.1Kg.

A Primer for Garrison Artillery, A Primer for Horse, Field & Mountain Artillery are shown but are already part of the range in the Artillery collection of books , see Artillery section.

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