Digest Patents Relating Breech Loading by Stockbridge (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1963 reproduction published by N. Flayderman. DJ shows some minor edge-wear and rubbing as well as some small areas of loss at spine extremes. Now in mylar. Book is tight, clean, unmarked except for gift inscription and name of former owner in ink on front loose endpaper. Will pack with care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Facsimile Edition. Size: 11 1/4" x 8 3/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gray cloth over boards, black lettering, 176 pages, extensively illustrated. "Classified and Arranged According to the Movement of the Principal Parts for Opening and Closing the Breech." 1963 reproduction of the original 1874 publication. Corners and spine ends rubbed. In an illustrated dust jacket that has wear at extremities, has marks from rubbing, a few stains. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 9 oz. Category: Nonfiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016300.

Condition: Near Fine. A near fine, clean and tight copy. Facsimile edition of the original published in 1874. No bumped corners to book. No signatures, no jacket. Profusely illustrated with line drawings, classified and arranged according to the movement of the principle parts for opening and closing the breech. 176pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint off 1874 original. Drawings and diagrams of small arms that received patents. 177 pages. Jacket protected in clear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Reproduction. 177 pages. Dustjacket is lightened to spine from brown to green, small chips to spine-ends and corners, slight chips to upper edges, unclipped. Hardback binding has light wear/small creases to spine-ends, some wear to boards' corners, light edge-wear, light surface-wear. Some light darkening to upper end-papers and inside of upper rear dustjacket - probably from a little coal smoke from an open fire. Upper page-edges darkened. Pages clean and in nice sound condition with detailed B&W diagrams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. short tear and moderate edge wear to jacket, otherwise a clean, square copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Facsimile; First Printing. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages; Dust jacket with minor soiling, rubbing and edgewear.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn, short, mostly closed, tear to the head of the lower panel. The contents complete, clean and tight.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 11¼" x 8¾" (0.4 kg); pp 176; Includes: Errata page; Index of names; Cutaways; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201002 ||.

Reprint der Ausgabe Washington, D.C., 1874. 4° (28,5 x 22 cm). 176 S., mit ca. 840 graphischen Darstellungen. Blauer Original-Ganzleinenband. Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4to. US Reprint of 1874 Edition. Publishers Cloth in Original Dustwrapper Which Has Slight Loss and Some Soiling. A Very Good Book. No Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images.

Condition: Very good. 4to pp.177. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 31.5 x 23 cm. 176pp. Rebound into modern brown boards with new endpapers. Index of names. 84 of the pages are illustrated with lithograph diagrams of guns, usually 10 per page. The detailed lithographs are by N. Peters of Washington. Tape repaired closed tear to title page as well as two small closed tears to the final leaf. Some chipping to the bottom right corner of the first few pages, at no point reaching text. Errata not present. Uncommon work, this is the true first edition with 1874 on title and copyright page and I cannot find the 1st in Worldcat, I could only find the facsimile reprint which was done in 1963.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. N. Peters (illustrator). Uncommon 1874 original edition of this accounting and illustrating of all "patents relating to breech-loading and magazine small arms granted in the United States from 1836 to 1873 inclusive". Tight and VG+ in its dark-brown cloth over light-brown bevelled boards. Bright, completely unflecked gilt-titling at the spine. Very light staining along the right edges of the first 3 pgs. (the title, copyright and preface pgs.), otherwise clean as could be internally, with no writing or markings to speak of. 780 photo-lithographed illustrations (patent drawings) by N. Peters thruout (formatted as 10 illustrations per page). The publisher's original "errata" slip bound-in at the rear. Tall quarto, new endsheets, 176 pgs. A nice piece of 19th century gun-manufacturing history.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to. 176 p. illus. 31 cm. with errata slipped in by reverse back board. 780 patent-drawings photo-lithographed (up to ten to a page) on 84 full-page illustrations by N. Peters of Washington. Quarter bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Minimal wear to extremities. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Tight binding and good cover. Contemporary gift inscription from S. W. Wood to Albert C. Hobbs, Sept. 16, 1874. Owners name below of W(illiam) W. Thomas. Clean, unmarked pages. Alfred Charles Hobbs (October 7, 1812 - November 6, 1891) was an American locksmith and inventing of the Protector lock and became one of the founders of the lock making firm of Hobbs Hart & Co. Ltd. The company started in 1851 and was formally registered as Hobbs and Co. in 1852, but by 1855 it had become Hobbs, Ashley and Company. The name then changed to Hobbs, Ashley and Fortescue. In 1860 Hobbs returned to America and lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and went on to hold a dozen patents for firearm ammunition manufacturing. In 1880 he listed himself as a "Superintendent Of Cartridge Factory." William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (August 26, 1839 - October 7, 1927) was a United States politician from Maine, consul to Sweden and American Minister to Sweden and Norway in three separate terms: 1883-1885, 1889-1894 and 1898-1905.