Gooding S J Introduction (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile of the 1730 edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated. Owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown, spine a bit cocked, near fine without dustwrapper as issued.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition Reprinted. Hardback. Excellent reference. 13pp, of introduction, explanation and bibliography, c.18 plates. Slight darkening to endpaper, else vgc, brown landscape boards, gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. 13 pp introduction and bibliography followed by facsimlie of 1730 edition.Each plate has an english text opposite. Slight marks to endpapers otherwise As New. 18 Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. 31 pages. Extensive contemporary bibliography. Black and white illustrations which illustrate flint bayonet and grenade military exercises circa 1730. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very informative early military reference.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Museum Restoration Service, Bloomfield, ON, Canada. 1995. Vi, 134 pages. Illustrated. #109 of 650 copies. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Part-history, part-technical study is the finest existing study of percussion cannon locks. John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (November 13, 1809 July 12, 1870) was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery. Dahlgren devised a smoothbore howitzer, adaptable for many sizes of craft and shore installations. He then introduced a cast-iron muzzle-loading cannon with vastly increased range and accuracy, known as the Dahlgren gun, that became the U. S. Navy's standard armament. EB; 134 pages.…