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NEW BOOKS FOR 2010

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 MARCH for the first production run which will be ready mid-April.

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.

New

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

22.Field Howitzers and Mortars 1892 £10

23.The Field Powder-Magazines 1858 £5

24. Rifling for Heavy Guns 1873 £10

25. Dress and Equipment of the Army 1868 £10

26. The Military Breechloaders of Prussia , France & England 1871 £10

27. Field Railways and their general application in war 1873 £15

28. The Protection of our heavy Guns for Coast Defence 1886 £10

29. Mounting and Working of Heavy Guns at sea 1872 £15

30. Breaching experiment with smooth-bored guns against Martello Towers 1861 £ 10

31. Naval and Military Signals 1864 £10

32. The Process of our Heavy Ordnance & Principles of its construction 1870 £10

33. Military Pontoons 1865 £15

34. Signs and Marks on Military Stores 1886 £10

35. Historical Sketch of Rifled Ordnance 1850-68 £10

36. Construction of our Iron-clad Fleet & Iron Shields for Coast Defence 1864 £ 10

37. Our Rifled Projectiles and Fuzes 1871 £10

38. Field Engineering 1875 £15

39. Submarine Miners in relation to war 1886 £10

40. Working Heavy Guns and Projectiles 1870 £15

41. Fire-Proof Gun Powder Magazines £10

42. The Turret versus The Broadside System 1868 £15

43. The Time Fuze (Armstrong, Boxer, Pettmans ) 1864 £10

44.The Progress of Breech-Loading Small Arms 1868 £10

45. The Gatling Gun :Its Place in Tactics 1876 £10

46. Naval Guns 1872 £10

47. The Application of Steam Power to the working of Heavy Guns 1866 £10

48. The Construction of Our Heavy Guns 1868 £15

49. Military Bridge Construction 1876 £15

50. The New Garrison Carriages 1876 £15

51. Breech-Loading and Muzzle-Loading for Guns 1875 £10

52. Notes on the 2.5-Inch Jointed Screw Gun 1886 £10

53. The Field Gun for India 1870 £15

54. The Construction of Heavy Rifled Ordnance 1868 £10

55. The Nordenfelt Machine Gun 1881 £10

56. Field Fortifications 1858 £10

57. Coast Fortification and the Naval Attack of Fortresses 1879 £10

58.Cartridges for Breech Loading Small Arms 1869 £10

59. Considerations relating to Magazines ,Storage and other similar

requirements for Garrison & Coast Battaries 1860 £10

60. Hotchkiss Revolving Guns 1880 £10

61. Shelter-Trenches or temp . cover for troops 1871 £15

62. Diagrams of Gun Carriages 1854 £15

63. Military Telegraph and Signalling 1871 £10

64. Quick-Firing Guns for Fortress Defence 1890 £5

65. An abstract of Mullers History of Fortress-Warfare c1880 £15

66. Krupp’s Meppen Experiments of 1879 £10

67.Power of Guns and Armoured Defences and Ship versus Forts 1890 £10

68.Austrian Mountain Artillery 1870 £15

69.Diagrams of Service Ordnance 1891 £15

70. The composition and strength of a Siege Train required for the Attack

of a Modern Fortress 1879 £10

A few of the new subjects to follow…………………..

Notes on the Shrapnel Shell 1864

The employment of Mitrailleurs during the recent war 1873

The Strategical importance of military harbours 1875

Improved War Rockets for use in the Military 1877

Military Equipment 1878

Coast Defence 1886

Military Ballooning 1884

The Forts of Today 1883

Dress and Equipment with practical illustrations 1890

Steam Transport on Roads 1894

Improvements in Lights for Signalling in the Navy & Army 1878

The Heavy Guns of 1884

Magazine Rifles 1883

Heliograph and Army Signalling 1881

Modern Field Artillery 1881

The Pneumatic Torpedo-Gun 1889

Use of Railways for Coast and Harbour Defence

Military Cycling 1886

Historical Sketch of the Defence of Malta 1879

Fortified Camps and Fortresses 1880

Hydro-Pneumatic Gear for Siege and Heavy Ordnance 1884

Historical Sketch of the Defences of Dover 1886

Modern Types of Guns 1883

The Milford Haven Experiments 1886

Historical Sketch of the Coast Defences of England 1886

Artillery in Coast Defence 1880

A Descriptive History of Quick-Firing Guns

Notes on the Equipment and Services of Mountain Artillery

NEW TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

A 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.

For subjects of a non technical nature ie , Battles ,Campaigns and other material. These are covered in the Special Publications collection.

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 buckram cloth (Dark Blue for Tec. Pub., Dark Green for Special Pub.) 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 £16.00 + 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:

8. The Works of Franciso Di Giorgio Martini £ 5

9. The Evolution of A Field Gun £ 5

10. The Story of the 36-Inch Mortars of 1855- 1858 £ 10

11. The Maxim Automatic Machine Gun £15

12. Modern Carriages for Heavy Naval Ordnance 1867 £15

13. Iron-clad Sea-going Shield Ships £15

14. A New System of the application of Iron to Forts and Ships £15

15. The Conversion and Rifling of Cast-Iron Ordnance, and on Chilled

white Iron Projectiles £10

16. A Proposed New System of Fortifications 1859 £10.

17 Naval Ordnance 1864 £10

18 Coast Defences, and the application of Iron to Fortifications 1868 £15

19 Spithead Forts and the Defence of Portsmouth 1864 £15

20 The Machine Gun: Their place in the wars of the future & The Gatling Battery,Agar ,Claxton Guns, French & Montigny Mitrailleurs 1869 £10

21 The Martini-Henry Rifle(the new military breech-loader) 1869 £10

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

More to follow watch this space.

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.

For subjects of a non technical nature ie , Battles ,Campaigns and other material. These are covered in the Special Publications collection.

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 buckram cloth (Dark Blue for Tec. Pub., Dark Green for Special Pub.) 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 £16.00 + 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 small selection of Technical Publications are as follows:

1. Repots on the mounting of heavy ordnance at Malta 1877 £5

2.Memorandums of Artillery arrangements and alterations made in carriages, harness, ammo. of the Expedition to Egypt 1801 £10

3.Notes on Armoured Defences 1879 £15

4.An Account of the Great Cannon of Muhammad II £10

5.Experimental Casemates at Shoeburyness 1870 £10

6.The 80-Ton Gun £5

7.The Field Gun of 1906 £5

Details of Technical Publications Binder

More New Publications, details to be added.

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