Paterson Lt Cdr (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 149pp. Illustrated. 3rd edition 1955. D/w slightly grubby and chipped to edges. Previous owner's details to front free end-paper. A few spots to end-papers. Private ownership. (an4).

Hardcover. Front inner flap of DJ is price clipped (DJ now in mylar protector). Slight rubbing and handling to DJ ; "Written at a time when the bow was still a primary weapon, the treatise is of major importance in the field of military history. Not only does it furnish-for the first time- a detailed explanation of the horse-archer's techniques, but it also offers specifications of the best war bow of the author's time and area. It enables us, among other things, to assess the degree of accuracy expected of a Mameluke archer and to form a clear idea of such technical matters as minimum discharge velocities of adequate war bows." ; 219 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xl, 219. Frontis and illus in text. Original publishers black buckram, title gilt to spine. Errata slip tipped on to verso of title page. Pictorial dust jacket showing 7 Guineas price. . Frontispiece and 16 other plates, full-page map, numerous line-drawn illustrations and diagrams to the text. A very good indeed copy in very good jacket, the spine very faintly sunned and with a few very small chips from the head of spine and very slight nicks at top edge. A full translation and explanation of Taybugha Al-Ashrafi Al-Baklamishi Al-Yunani's previously unpublished 14th century Complete Manual of Archery for Cadets, which was originally composed for presentation to the sultan.…