Congreve Colonel (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The covers are mainly clean with some small marks, bumping to the edges, corners and spine. The stapled binding is firm. The pages are clean and crease free. All in all a nice example of this book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a facsimile of the original edition which was pulished in 1814. The white covers are browned to the front and rear. Theer is a tear to the top front cover. the book is clean inside.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Facsimile of the 1814 first edition. A landscape format paperback; bright and tidy.

Hb in Dw 85pp illustrations and plates Ltd Edition 825/850 Former owners label to fep o/w A Vg/Vg copy.

Brown buckram in dust jacket. Condition: Very good in worn dust jacket. (6)-85 Pp. B&w illus. throughout Title page continues 'Shewing the Various Applications of this Weapon, Both for Sea and Land Service, and Its Different Uses in the Field and in Sieges; Illustrated by Plates of the Principal Equipment's, Exercises, and Cases of Actual Service, With General Instructions for its Application, and a Demonstration of the Comparative Economy of the System.' Limited numbered edition of 850, this number 147 of the original 1814 London edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. [6], 21 pages, 7 coloured plates (of 13). Published for the information of the officers of the Rocket Corps, and others whom it may concern. This copy lacks the front cover and spine and 6 of the 13 plates. Prelimary pages are loose, old inscription dated 1837 on front endpaper. The 7 beautifully hand coloured plates present show: The equipment of a Rocket Ammunition Horse; Rocket infantry in line of march, and in action; the mode of using rockets in bombardment; the mode of using rockets in bombardment, from earth works, without apparatus; a rocket ambuscade; the use of rockets in the attack and defense of fortified places; of the use of rockets by infantry against cavalry, and in covering storming of a fortress. A very rare military history book.…

No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

no binding. Condition: good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.