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SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS ON ARTILLERY

Key to above photo L-R: Modern Artillery in the Field

1911, Treatise on Artillery 1855(all books A4 size)

Modern Artillery in the Field 1911.

A Description of the Artillery of the Field Artillery and the principles and methods of its employment.

By the author of “Modern Guns and Gunnery”

by Colonel . H, A. Bethell R.F.A.

A book of 4 parts: Equipment, Practical Gunnery, Minor Tactics of Artillery, Combined Tactics.

The parts have Chapters on :The Q.F. Field Gun, The Q.F. Howitzer, Heavy Field Gun and Howitzer, Horse and Mountain Artillery, The Q.F. Balloon Gun, Ammunition, Artillery Draught, Arms & Stores, Field Artillery Fire, Fire Discipline, Entrenchments, Organization, command, Reconnaissance, camps and quarters, outposts, marchers, manoeuvre, Artillery Positions, Modern Q.F. Tactics , Artillery Tactics against the various arms, tactics of Horse and Mountain Artillery, The support of Infantry by Artillery, Artillery advanced and rear guard, in night operations, in Fortress Warfare, under special conditions, in Aero-Naval Warfare.

This edition is A4 size with x, 394pp+ 4pp of amendments 1912, 13 B & W photographs, 126 drawings & illustrations in the text.

ISBN 978 -1-906394-35-6 Cost £ 37.00 + £5( UK ) 1.4Kg

TREATISE ON ARTILLERY

1855.

By Capt. Boxer R.A..

Published for use of the practical class at the Royal Military Academy course Woolwich

This book contains Chapters on: Explosive effects on Gunpowder, The Ballistic and Gun Pendulums, Initial Velocity, a Motion of a Project in a Vacuum, the resistance of the Air, the effect of the resistance of the Air upon the Motion of a Projectile, the Deviation of Projectiles. With many tables of information and 2 A3 size pull out drawings.

There has never been such a detailed publication on these basic subjects connected with of British gunnery .

Hand Bound in dark blue Balacrome cloth card covers, gold leaf lettering on spine & early Vic. Royal Arms badge on front cover. To match the other two Vol’s “Diagrams of Guns” etc.

With viii ,178pp , Size A4. Cost £45. 800gms.

The Artillerist’s Manual

Adapted to the Service of The United States

Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged

Brig.Gen John Gibson , US Army .

This classic work covering the Civil War period ordnance has 13 chapters covering the following subjects: Gunpowder, ordnance, form of ordnance-materials, rifles, projectiles, artillery carriages, materials etc, the theory of fire, the practice of fire, fuzes , artillery implements, ammunition, field artillery, attack and defence of fortified places.

With 478pp, 30 plates showing 230 detailed drawings of ordnance & equipment ,in addition to 280 detailed illustrations/ drawings in the text. A 4 size. Hand bound in navy blue buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering.

Cost £ 45.00 + £7 ( UK ) 1.73Kg

SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS ON Arms & Ammunition

Books from L- R Ammunition:A Descriptive Treatise

1870, The Rifle Musket

AMMUNITION :

A Descriptive Treatise ,Part II

Ammunition for Rifled Ordnance 1870

By Capt. C.O. Brown

A descriptive treatise on the different projectiles, charges, fuzes ,rockets etc, at present in use for land and sea service, and on other war stores manufactured in the royal laboratory

This edition covers the Armstrong Breech-Loading system, B.L. Projectiles, Segment shell, Common Shell, Shot, Muzzle-loading Armstrong Shunt system, Woolwich System, Boxer Shrapnel Shell, Palliser Projectiles, Special equipment for 7-pd & 9-pd adopted for India, Charge, Patterns of B.L. Service markings, Charges & Cartridges for M.L.(Armstrong) Shunt Gun, Charges for Woolwich Guns, Tubes, Armstrong E & F Time Fuzes , Percussion Fuzes , Rockets & Rocket Machines, Hale’s War Rockets, Boxer’s Life Saving Rockets, Notes on Flight & Penetration of Projectiles.

With 252pp A4 size with 86 woodcut plates of illustrations on rifled ordnance and rockets.

A4 size dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover.

Cost £25 +£ 5 P & P( UK ) 950gms.

The Rifle-Musket:

A Practical Treatise on The Enfield-Pritchett Rifle, recently adopted in the British service.

Capt. Jervis-White Jervis R.A.

Pub. 1854.

This book has a preface, and is in four chapters ,The Musket, The Charge, The Projectiles, The Aim.

With a detailed account of the manufacture of the Barrel, Lock, Stock, Ramrod & Bayonet with illustrations. The Charge chapter covers saltpetre, charcoal, sulphur, proportion and incorporating of ingredients , explosive force of gunpowder, then details of the bullet and finally how to use (aim) the rifle with range tables.

A5 size with dark green Balacrome cloth, x + 70pp and 30 Illustrations in the text & historical notes.

Price £ 19.00 360gms .

SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS ON

Equipment

Books from L- R Manual of Military Electric Lighting

1909-12, Army Equipment, Pt. 1 Cavalry 1865

The Manual of Military Electric Lighting

Vol. I, II & III.

1909-1912

This is the only detailed Manual on this equipment , all bound as one book.

Full details of all equipment used with Military lighting , motors, generation equipment, battery power, projector gear, projectors, search lights in Fortress installations, reflectors, switchgear & boards, accumlators , field electric lighting, central power stations, fittings & lamps, arc lighting, electric cable and accessories.

With tables, circuit diagrams, installation diagrams, cable network diagrams , illustrations of equipment, B & W photographs of the equipment itself & IEE Wiring rules 6 th edition 1911.

With Vol I 104pp 101 ills, Vol II 178pp114 ills, Vol III 136pp 63 ills., Giving a total of 416pp & 278 illustrations & tables. Bound in maroon buckram, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms to cover.

Cost £ 25 + £8.00 Postage. 1660 gms

Army Equipment 1865

Part I, Equipment of Cavalry

Compiled by Lt. H.M. Hozier .

This is the only detailed publication available on the early period of equipment of The Cavalry Regiments.

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.

This is the first part of this series(the last part to be published) and covers: Classification of Equipment, Historical Notes on Cavalry, Organization and Composition of Cavalry, British Cavalry, Cavalry Staff, Household Cavalry, Cavalry of the line, Cape Mounted Rifles, Clothing & Necessaries, Arms, Accoutrements, Saddlery , Harness & Stable Necessaries, Bands & Musical Instruments, Ammunition, Books, Forms, Hospital Equipment, Veterinary Equipment, Saddler’s and Saddletree Makers Equipment, Armourer’s Forge, Articles of Musketry Instruction, Camp Equipment, Transport by sea, Tonnage, Marks on Packages & Stores.

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

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

With 288pp A4 size pages. Bound in maroon buckram, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms to cover.

Cost £ 2500 + £5.00 Postage. 1030 gms

NEW BOOKS ON Regimental Colours

OLD SCOTTISH REGIMENTAL

COLOURS .

From the banners in the days of chivalry to the Colours carried by the Scottish Regiments, its Fencibles , Volunteers & Brigades placed in St, Giles Church in 1883.

By Andrew Ross S.S.C..

Covering: The Royal Scots Greys, all numbered Regiments of Foot, Fencibles , Volunteers. With a large section on the early history , a detailed account of each Battalion, its Officers, Battles etc. A classic book on this subject when published in 1885 . It had xii , 158pp

28 FULL PAGE COLOUR plates and, 5 B & W illustrations .

This edition is produced A4 size , hand bound with dark green buckram cloth, hard covers, gold leaf lettering, special colours badges on cover in gold leaf.

Is of limited edition of 50 numbered copies only.

Price £ 65.00 + £6.00 postage( UK ) 1280 gms .

New hardbound binding service.

L-R Handbooks of the 9pd RML 1878 and 40pd RML 1873, Instructions for Armourers of Her Maj. Fleet 1885. A new service of Hard/Hand binding Handbooks. For the additional cost of £ 9.50 any of the subjects in this range (not the 14-Inch Rail Gun) may be bound in hard covers of Khaki coloured buckram cloth with black lettering. This makes a better presented handbook which can be handled better and opened flat. When ordering just add the £ 9.50 to the cost of the Handbook. List of subjects available (SAE please) see photograph of handbooks .

For All our Artillery & cards editions of various Handbooks

Some of our first edition books of 2008

FRENCH ARTILLERY of 1824.

By P.L.Dawson & Dr. S.Summerfield.

This is not one book but three in one covering the development of the subject its manuals, tactics & ordnance upto 1824

The book is split up as follows: Part 1: Gribeauval and AnXI Systems by the two authors. An overview of nearly 100 years of French manuals, tactics and ordnance. With a number of short biographies of important personalities. Written in 7 chapters & 5 appendices. In total 92pp. Part 2: Ministre de Guerre (1824) a 24 page introduction then 112 pages of this 1824 Artillery manual. Part 3: Levault F.G. Originally 26 plates showing the drill in serving the Artillery at that time and detailed drawings of the Ordnance itself. This presented into 51 plates with English annotations by the authors.

In addition to the above, 6 colour plates of the period are added and 8 new colour plates drawn by Stephen Summerfield on modern computer graphics show 28 Barrels/Artillery pieces & 2 plates showing the servicing of the Guns by modern day re-enactors.

There are 300pp A4 size, 51 detailed line drawings plus the colour plates mentioned above. Bound in dark green "Balacrome" material with gold leaf lettering, & French badge on cover. Price £ 50.00. Postage (UK) £8. 1.65Kg

SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS ON UNIFORM

Uniforms of The Late-Victorian Yeomanry Cavalry 1880-1899.

By Robert J. Smith and David J. Knight

Foreword By F.M. Sir John Chapple, G.C.B., C.B.E., D.L.

Books on British Army dress & uniform are now widely available however, the Yeomanry Cavalry has very few complete studies of its dress. For the first time ever all Regiments of a given period are included in one publication.

About the book

This publication contains an introduction and general notes on Yeomanry dress, information on all 39 Regiments. With each Regiment’s organization, C.O., strength, notable events, then a detailed description of their Full Dress :Headdress, Tunic or Jacket, leg wear, arms & accoutrements, saddlery & horse furniture starting with the Officers & then the NCO’s & Men.

The Background

This project started over 50 years ago by author Robert J.Smith & the late Leslie Barlow to document & photograph the Uniform, Headdress and developments of the Yeomanry Cavalry. Visiting Museums, Drill Halls, Private collection, tailors shops etc. to research their subject to come to some conclusion to be in a position to publish their research in a book.

Twelve Single Regiments were covered in booklet form by the Ogilby Trust from 1977-1991. But no single volume was published.

With the research & specially illustrated paintings of David J Knight this book is now the result.

Book specification

With xii, 204pp,over 350 B & W photos some enlarged to A4 size many re-published for the first time and 50 colour plates 5x7" size of which 42 are taken from the original paintings of David J.Knight. The book A4 size of gloss art paper is hand bound in dark blue buckram cloth, gold leaf lettering on spine & badge design on cover. With hand made Spanish marble endpapers.

Cost £ 55.00 + postage 1.8 Kg weight.

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