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Ammunition & Ballistics

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(NP146) THE BIRMINGHAM CARTRIDGE MANUFACTURERS
C.W. Harding, 22cm x 28cm, 282 pages, very well researched with tables, line drawings and many photographs in colour, An excellent addition to his previous ‘Eley Cartridges’ book, £45.00

(P1) MILITARY SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION OF THE WORLD 1945 – 1980 P.Labbett, Arms Armour Press 1980, 25cm x 19cm, photo illustrations, headstamps, cartridge boxes etc., book good+ in slightly torn DJ. £35.00

(P2) THE ‘FIELD’ TRIAL OF EXPLOSIVES, GUNS, &C., 1878 Compiled from reports published in ‘The Field’, from April 29th to May 18th, 22cm x 28cm, 20 pages plus 8 pages of advertisements, in card covers, 2 illustrations, tables etc., cover grubby, contents clean and sound, £90.00

(P3) SPEER RELOADING MANUAL NUMBER NINE FOR RIFLE AND PISTOL 1975, 464 pages, illustrations and line drawings throughout, Book Good £10.00

(P4) TEXT BOOK OF EXPLOSIVES USED IN THE SERVICE H.M.S.O. 1938, 213 pages, with fold-out plates and black and white photographs, 25cm x 16cm, physical and chemical properties of explosibes, manufacture and properties of chemicals used in the production of explosives, manufacture of propellants etc,, Book Good in red boards, ex library, £39.00

(P8) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 10MM .40 S&W / .41 AE 29 pages in soft card covers, book Good+, £4.00

(P9) GUIDE TO THE EXPLOSIVES ACT, 1875 Captain J.H.Thomson, 1941, H.M.S.O, 297 pages, with remarks on the Explosive Substances Act 1883 , being to control the manufacture, keeping, sale, conveyance and importation of explosives for legitimate purposes, Book Good, Ex Library, £7.50

(P10) VON ALTEN HANDFEUERWAFFEN – ENTWICKLUNG TECHNIK LEISTUNG 1989, 149 pages in card covers, a modern look and testing of the penetrating power and ballistics of early black powder long arms, VG, Text in German, £8.00

(P11) EXPLOSIVE AGENTS APPLIED TO INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES Frederick Augustus Abel, 1872, a lecture given on May 14th 1872, 45 pages, bound in modern binding, VG, £30.00

(P12) WEHR UND SCHUTZENWESSEN Anon, Morion reprint of the 1862 edition, 147 pages in soft covers, £12.00

(P13) DIE EXPLOSIVSTOFFE EINFUHRING IN DIE CHEMIE DEREXPLOSIVEN VORGANGE Dr H.Brunswig, G.J.Goschen-sche, 1907, 158 pages, plus adverts at rear, with 6 illustrations and 12 tables, Book Good only, rubbed and backstrip torn, £15.00

(P14) REPORTS OF THE INSPECTOR OF POWDER. 1896/4
Smokeless powder for 3.2inch B.L.field gin, steel, using metallic cartridge case, proving ground, charcoal powders, 31 pages, loose Good only, £6.00

(P15) EXPLOSION INVESTIGATION H.J.Yallop, The Forensic Science Society and Scottish Academic Press, 1980, 276 pages, of the systematic study of the investigation of the causes of explosions, the approach to the scene, the analysis of witness statements, an invaluable insight, Book Good + in D. J. £75.00

(P16) METALLIC CARTRIDGES (REGULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL) MANUFACTURED AND TESTED AT THE FRANKFORD ARSENAL Major T.J. Treadwell, Washington 1873, limited edition hardbound numbered modern reprint, 14 pages of text plus 68 drawn plates of the cartridges, priming systems etc., Number 103 of 1000 copies, VG, £24.00

(P17) PREISLISTE FUR FAGD- UND SPORT- MUNITION 1927 Journal Verlag reprint, 16 pages with German text , ammunition, in card covers, Book Good+, £4.00

(P18) REPORT OF TRIALS OF .303 CARTRIDGES. BY MESSRE. ELEY BROTHERS LTD. THE SCHULTZE GUNPOWDER COMPANY LTD AND THE SMOKELESS POWDER AND AMMUNITION CO. LTD. 1899, 33cm x 21cm, 8 pages of text plus 5 fold-out tables and 1 single table, During the Autumn of 1898 it was propose that the Companies should carry out a series of rifle cartridge tests and the following programme was decided upon - Programme of Velocity and Pressure Tests to be Carried out simultaneously by Messrs Eley, Smokeless Powder and Ammnition and the Schultze Gunpowder Company’s , Book Good with just the last table having a tear but complete. Covers slightly torn small loss, £140.00

(P19) U.S. CARTRIDGES AND THEIR HANDGUNS. 1795 – 1975 Charles R.Suydam, Beinfeld 1979, 23cm x 15cm, 333 pages with intext black and white photographs and descriptions, from Pre-Metallics to Post-1960 cartridges and their weapons, Book Good + in card covers. £20.00

(P20) GERMAN AMMUNITION ORDNANCE CODES 1930 TO 1945 24 pages, includes ammunition, small arms ammunition clips, artillery, holsters etc. £3.95

(P21) REPORT TO HER MAJESTY’S CHIEF INSPECTOR OF EXPLOSIVES 1897 The working of the Home Office testing Station, 15 pages, foolscap, Good, £6.00

(P22) REPORT OF CAPTAIN MAJENDIE TO THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON GUNCOTTON AND LITHOFRACTEUR 1872 20 pages foolscap, testing and experiments, Good, £8.50

(P23) FIREARMS ACT 1937 35 pages 15cm x 25cm, as issued with no covers, good, £3.00

(P24) BRAUN & BLOEM AMMUNITION PRICELIST 1925 Reprint 1999, 16 pages in card covers, text in German, illustrates rimfire, pinfire, shotgun, VG, £4.00

(P25) AMMUNITION CATALOGUE – Rheinisch-Wesfalische BULLETS Reprint 1995 of early 20th century catalogue, 25 pages in card covers, illustrating cast bullets, patched bullets, and jacketed bullets, vg, £5.00

(P26) RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN THE LABORATORIES OF C.S. ARSENALS AND ORDNANCE DEPOTS 2002 reprint of the rules from 1863, 48 pages in card covers, with 4 added photographs of ammunition packing, £3.50

(P27) PREISLISTE FUR JAGD UND SPORT MUNITION - ROTH 1927 Reprint of the 1927 catalogue, 16 pages in card covers, illustrations of centrefire, shotgun and pinfire cartridges and bullets, VG, £4.00

(P28) CARTRIDGES FOR BREECH - LOADING RIFLES Mattenheimer, 41 pages of English translation of the German 1868 edition, quarto, plus the original German text, many line drawings, plus a separate sheet of the line drawings produced in colour, Fine in DJ, £25.00

(P29) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS – VOLUME 1: CENTERFIRE Fred A. Datig, Borden edition 1988, 24cm x 16cm, 176 pages with line drawings of the ammunition, Book Good + in D.J.£10.00

(P30) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS – VOLUME 2: CENTERFIRE – RIMFIRE – PATENT IGNITION Fred A. Datig, Borden 1958, 24cm x 16cm, 176 pages with line drawings of the ammunition, Book Good + in D.J. £10.00

(P31) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS – VOLUME 3: CENTERFIRE – RIMFIRE - PLASTIC Fred A. Datig, Borden 1967, 176 pages with line drawings of the ammunition, Book Good + in D.J.£10.00

(P32) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS-VOLUME 4. CENTERFIRE- RIMFIRE- PATENT IGNITION Fred A.Datig, Published by the Author, First edition 1983, 23cm x 16cm, 283 pages, metric, British, Rimfire, Peabody rimfires, Patent ignition, providence tool company 1865, and much more. Very rare to find this volume. Book Good +. Was not produced with a D.J. £55.00

(P33) IDENTIFICATION MANUAL ON THE .303 BRITISH SERVICE CARTRIDGE. NO. 1-BALL AMMUNITION. B.A.Temple, 84 pages, 30cm x 21cm, intext illustrations, lists of changes, individual pattern identification, quick reference grid, dimensions of the .303-inch British cartridge and ball cartridges, Book Good in card covers, £11.00

(P42) THE SENSETIVENESS OF EXPLOSIVES Copp, Napier, Nash, Powell, Skelly, Ubbelohde & Woodward, Royal society Of London, 1947, 29cm x 22.5cm, 99 pages plus 18 photo illustrations, Mathematics not for the feint hearted. VG, £14.00

(P44) TEXT BOOK OF AMMUNITION . PAMPHLET NO. 6 GRENADES. ADDENDUM NO. 1. 1947 War Office 23th April 1947, 23 pages in paper wraps, with 12 illustrations, Book Good £9.00

(P50) TECHNICAL AMMUNITION GUIDE. SERIES 3. PAMPHLET 2. THE 7.62 MM X 39MM MODEL 1943 CARTRIDGE COMMUNIST P.Labbett & F.A.Brown, 30cm x 22cm, 21 pages, with intext illustrations, Book Good + in salmon card covers in an additional cover, £15.00

(P52) TECHNICAL AMMUNITION GUIDE. SERIES 3. PAMPHLET 7.RUSSIAN SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION. 1972 - 1997 P.Labbett, 30cm x 22cm, 19 pages, with intext illustrations, Book Good + in red card covers in an additional cover, £15.00

(P53) TECHNICAL AMMUNITION GUIDE. SERIES 3. PAMPHLET 6. FACTORY DRAWINGS USSR OR RUSSIAN FEDERATION SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION P.Labbett & F.A. Brown, 30cm x 22cm, 25 pages, illustrations, Book Good + in red card covers in an additional cover, £15.00

(P54) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1993 – COMMERCIAL BRITISH ‘INCH’ SPORTING CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 61 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P55) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1990 – CZARIST, SOVIET, EAST BLOC, PRC, DPRK & EASTERN EUROPEAN CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 43 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P56) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1992 – COMMERCIAL METRIC SPORTING RIFLE CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 48 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P57) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1991 – OBSOLETE METRIC MILITARY RIFLE & MACHINE GUN CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 65 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P58) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1993 – MILITARY ‘SMOKELESS’ U.S. RIFLE, MACHINE GUN & CANNON CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 55 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P59) OFFICIAL PRICE LIST OF COLLECTORS CARTRIDGES 1993 – COMMERCIAL AMERICAN ‘INCH’ SPORTING RIFLE CARTRIDGES Conjay Collectors Ammunition company, 56 pages, paper wraps, good, £5.00

(P60) NITROGLYCERINE AND NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSIVES Phokion Naoum, Angriff Press 1998 Reprint of the 1928 edition, produced for the Hercules Powder Co., 469 pages, Fine in DJ, £15.00

(P62) THE DO IT YOURSELF GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK Don McLean, Paladin Press 1992, 73 pages in soft covers, many line drawings VG,, £8.95

(P63) THE CHEMISTRY OF POWDER & EXPLOSIVES
Tenney L. Davis, Angriff Press 499 page reprint of the 1943 edition, many photographs, covers most generally used explosives, VG in DJ, £18.50

DISBOUND ARTICLES FROM AMERICAN INSPECTOR OF ORDNANCE REPORTS

(P105) Annual Report Of The Inspector Of Powder 189611 pages £3.00

(P106) Report Of The Inspector Of Powder 189411 pages £2.00

(P109) Determination Of the Accuracy Of Small Arm Firing - 1880 8 pages and 3 plates, £4.00

(P110) Report On The Comparative Trials Of the Butler And Arrick Projectiles 12 pages and 9 plates, £4.00

(P111) Report Of the Board On Heavy Ordnance And Projectiles, Under Act Approved March 1881 16 pages - £2.00

NEW BOOKS ON AMMUNITION & BALLISTICS

(NP1) COMBAT LOADS FOR THE SNIPER RIFLE Ralph Avery, 155 pages in soft covers, photographs, line drawings and tables, £12.95

(NP2) CARTRIDGE MANUAL – AN ILLUSTRATED DIGEST Bartlett & Gallatin, 56 pages in card covers, line drawings, lists every cartridge patent issued in U.S. , England and France prior to 1878, £3.95

(NP3) MERMELSTEIN’S GUIDE TO METALLIC CARTRIDGE EVOLUTION Robert Mermelstein, 192 pages in card covers, 150 years of cartridge development, the people involved and many interesting facts on particular calibres, £13.95

(NP4) WINCHESTER TWO- PIECE .22 BOXES 1873 TO 1927 Richard L. Rains, 22cm x 28.5cm, 217 pages with all of the boxes shown in colour illustrations, appendix on Winchester .22 patents, £25.50

(NP5) THE ABC’S OF RELOADING – 7TH EDITION bill Chevalier (Editor), 22cm x 28cm, 288 pages in soft covers, basic to advanced procedures for the handloader, £14.99

(NP6) ELEY CARTRIDGES – A FAMILY AND MANUFACTURING HISTORY OF ELEY FROM 1765 TO 2005 Bill Harding, 21cm x 27cm, 192 pages, Excellent colour photographs throughout, The official history of the company, Headstamps, cartridge boards, table of cartridge calibres with details, list of metallic cartridges, and list of metallic cartridge headstamps etc., £35.00

(NP8) SELF CONSUMING PAPER CARTRIDGES FOR THE PERCUSSION REVOLVER W.J.Kirst, 8 pages in card wraps, line drawings, £2.75

(NP10) HANDLOADING FOR COMPETITION – MAKING THE TARGET BIGGER Glen D. Zediker, 443 pages in soft covers, an in depth look at the options for accurate reloading, £21.50

(NP14) RELOADING TOOLS. SIGHTS AND TELESCOPES FOR SINGLE SHOT RIFLES Gerald O. Kelver, soft covers, many photo ills. and catalogue plates etc., £11.50

(NP18) THE POOR MAN’S PRIMER MANUAL George B. Dmitrieff, 22cm x 29cm, approx 120 pages, illustrations, formulae, production of primers in commercial and home environments, £16.50

(NP20) PETERS & KING, THE BIRTH & EVOLUTION OF THE PETERS CARTRIDGE CO. & THE KING POWDER CO. Thomas D. Schiffer, folio, 256 pages, many intext photographs plus large colour section, £32.00

(NP23) CANADIAN MANUFACTURED CAL. .303 BRITISH MILITARY BALL AMMUNITION HEADSTAMP IDENTIFICATION W.R. Wonch, folio, 12 sheets stapled together, £3.50

(NP24) THE RIMFIRE CARTRIDGE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA John L. Barber, 22cm x 29cm, 221 pages, photo illustrations, headstamps, cartridge boxes etc., early rimfire calibres, £31.00

(NP28) CARTRIDGES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Ken J. Rutterford, 21cm x 30cm, 153 pages of references of 1161 makers and suppliers of shotgun cartridges, plus 173 plates of drawings of cartridge boxes and headstamps, plus index. Soft covers, excellent reference, £24.99

(NP29) GUNPOWDER CANS & KEGS Ted & David Bacyk & Tom Rowe, 22cm x 29cm, 269 pages excellent photo illustrations in colour, £41.00

(NP30) THE MANUFACTURE OF GUNFLINTS Sydney B.J.Skertchly, with an introduction by Seymour de Lotbiniere, 7in x 10.5in, soft covers, 110 page reprint of this 1879 work. Tools and techniques illustrated, £13.50

(NP31) LYMAN BLACK POWDER HANDBOOK & LOADING MANUAL - 2nd EDITION Sam Fadala, 336 pages in soft covers, largest selection of loading data for black powder, includes Mike Ventorino on cowboy action shooting, £15.95

(NP32) RELOADING TOOLS. SIGHTS AND TELESCOPES FOR SINGLE SHOT RIFLES Gerald O. Kelver, soft covers, many photo ills. and catalogue plates etc., £9.00

(NP33) WORLD WAR 1 ARMAMENTS AND THE .303 BRITISH CARTRIDGE B.A. Temple, 100 pages with many cut-away drawings of the special use British .303 service cartridges, £16.95

(NP34) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS – VOL 1 – CENTERFIRE Fred A. Datig, 175 pages, line drawings, sections on Metric, British & American Cartridges, soft cover, £11.00

(NP35) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS : VOL 2 : CENTERFIRE, RIMFIRE, PATENT IGNITION Fred A. Datig, 176 pages, line drawings,  £15.50

(NP36) CARTRIDGES FOR COLLECTORS – VOL 3 – CENTERFIRE – RIMFIRE – PLASTIC Frad A. Datig, 176 pages, line drawings, , £19.50

(NP37) RIFLEMAN’S GUIDE TO RIMFIRE AMMUNITION Steven Boelter, 352 pages in soft covers, an intensive look at the makes and types of .22 ammo available at present, photo illustrations, £19.95

(NP38) TREATISE ON AMMUNITION 1887 Excellent Reprint of this H.M.S.O ammunition classic, 480 pages with colour and mono plates and fold outs, covers small arms ammunition and artillery, £29.95

(NP40) A BRIEF HISTORY OF BULLET MOULDS Codman Parkerson, 31 pages in card wraps, photo ills,  £4.00

(NP41) PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS – ABRIDGEMENTS – CLASS 9 AMMUNITION, TORPEDOES, EXPLOSIVES, AND PYROTECHNICS - 7 VOLUMES Reprint of H.M.S.O. specifications for the years1855 to 1900, seven volumes, quarto ( 7.5in x 10 in), each approx. 150 pages, in all 860 with more than 5000 line drawings, numbered limited sets, £96.00

(NP43) HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION VOLUME ONE, SECOND EDITION, MARTIAL LONG ARMS : FLINTLOCK THROUGH RIMFIRE – DE LUXE EDITION George A. Hoyem, 22.5cm x 29cm, 248 pages, many photo illustrations and line drawings of 400 examples, includes descriptions and illustrations of some of the rifles involved, plus cartridge boxes. This revised edition also includes 7 full page colour photo plates of many of the cartridges, and a current cartridge price guide, bound in bonded leather cover in matching slip case limited edition of 500 copies signed and numbered, £69.00

(NP45) WILDCAT CARTRIDGES : THE RELOADERS GUIDE TO WILDCAT CARTRIDGE DESIGN Fred Zeglin, 22cm x 29cm, 291 pages, cartridge dimensions, history and conversion techniques, £27.50

(NP47) LYMAN CAST BULLET HANDBOOK – THIRD EDITION C. Kenneth Ramage (Editor), 8in x 11in, 416 pages in soft covers, techniques, bullet dimensions, ballistics etc., £16.99

(NP49) UNDERSTANDING FIREARM BALLISTICS – BASIC TO ADVANCED BALLISTICS SIMPLIFIED , ILLUSTRATED & EXPLAINED Robert A. Rinker, New Revised Edition , an excellent guide for those wishing to know the mysteries of ballistics, 427 pages in card wraps, line drawings, £18.50

(NP50) CATALOGO DELLE FABBRICHE GIVLIO FIOCCHI – 1926 24cm x 32cm reprint of the 1926 Fiocchi Ammunition catalogue, 52 pages in soft covers, shotgun cartridges and rimfire, pinfire and centre fire Brass,
all photo illustrated, £9.50

(NP51) WILDCAT CARTRIDGES – A PROFILE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND FAMOUS WILDCATS – COMBO EDITION 8.5in x 11in, 1050 pages, a massive compilation of the many authors work on wildcats, many illustrations, £29.50

(NP52) LOADING THE BLACK POWDER RIFLE CARTRIDGE Paul A. Matthews, 122 pages in card wraps, photo ills., £14.50

(NP54) FIREARMS INVESTIGATION, IDENTIFICATION AND EVIDENCE J.S. Hatcher, Frank J. Jury, and Jac Weller, Excellent reprint of this Samworth classic from 1957, 536 pages plus the original Samworth Adverts, loads of intext photo illustrations, forensic ballistics, wound damage and firearms identification, £29.50

(NP56) THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION – VOLUME 3 (BRITISH SPORTING RIFLE CARTRIDGES) George A. Hoyem, 22cm x 29cm, 220 pages with coloured photo frontice and many other photo illustrations, long awaited return of the British volume of this invaluable set of collectors cartridge books, £39.50

(NP57) ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WINCHESTER CARTRIDGE BOXES 1856 – 1956 Ray.T. Giles & Daniel L. Shuey, 22cm x 29cm, 312 pages full of coloured photographs of the boxes, with description and price guide, £45.00

(NP58) FRANGIBLE AMMUNITION – THE NEW WAVE IN FIREARMS AMMUNITION John F. Mullins, 179 pages in soft covers, diagrams and photo ills., the first in depth study of the tactics and use of frangible ammo., £12.25

(NP59) HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION VOLUME ONE, SECOND EDITION, MARTIAL LONG ARMS : FLINTLOCK THROUGH RIMFIRE George A. Hoyem, 22.5cm x 29cm, 248 pages, many photo illustrations and line drawings of 400 examples, includes descriptions and illustrations of some of the rifles involved, plus cartridge boxes. This revised edition also includes 7 full page colour photo plates of many of the cartridges, and a current cartridge price guide, £39.50

(NP62) W.R.A. CO. HEADSTAMPED CARTRIDGES AND THEIR VARIATIONS - VOLUME 1 Daniel L. Shuey, 22cm x 29cm, 364 pages, colour plates of boxes, cartridge drawings, headstamps and dimensions, £37.50

(NP63) W.R.A. CO. HEADSTAMPED CARTRIDGES AND THEIR VARIATIONS - VOLUME 2 Daniel L. Shuey, 22cm x 29cm, 351 pages, cartridge drawings and photographs, headstamps and dimensions, £37.50

(NP64) KEN WATERS’ PET LOADS FROM HANDLOADER Eighth edition, 22cm x 28cm x 5cm, 1040 pages, a huge volume of loading data from across the world, £37.50

(NP65) AMMO & BALLISTICS 3 FOR HUNTERS, SHOOTERS, AND COLLECTORS Bob Forker, 22cm x 29cm, 454 pages in soft covers, packed with ballistic information, £18.95

(NP70) STOPPING POWER : A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LATEST HANDGUN AMMUNITION Evan Marshall & Edwin Sanow, Large Quarto, 343 pages in soft covers, many photographs, ballistic tables etc., £35.00

(NP83) EARLY LOADING TOOLS AND BULLET MOLDS R.H.Chamberlain, 88 pages in card wraps, photo ills etc., £6.25

(NP90) LYMAN PISTOL & REVOLVER HANDBOOK – THIRD EDITION Thomas Griffin (editor), 22cm x 28cm, 272 pages in card covers, loading and bullet data, £17.50

(NB93) BLACK POWDER, PIG LEAD AND STEEL SILHOUETTES Paul Matthews, 132 pages in card covers, Line drawings, another Matthews classic on shooting the black powder cartridge rifle, full of loading and casting information, £12.50

(NP94) AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS OF COMBUSTIBLE AMMUNITION Terry A. White, 112 pages in soft covers with many photo illustrations, story of Merrill, Sturtevant, and Mason, and their manufacture of ammunition during the American Civil War, £6.25

(NP95) PERCUSSION AMMUNITION PACKETS UNION, CONFEDERATE & EUROPEAN
Malloy, Thomas & White, 22cm x 28.5cm, 134 pages, with superb colour photographs of 316 ammunition packets, patents and a selection of coloured photographs of the ammunition, £42.50

(NP96) ROUND BALL TO RIMFIRE – A HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION PART ONE Dean S. Thomas, 22cm x 29cm, 332 pages, art paper, cartridge packets, cartridges, patents, machinery and the people involved, many photographs and line drawings, £24.50

(NP97) ROUND BALL TO RIMFIRE – A HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION PART TWO Dean S. Thomas, 22cm x 29cm, 522 pages, art paper, cartridge packets, cartridges, patents, machinery and the people involved, many photographs and line drawings, £29.50

(NP98) ROUND BALL TO RIMFIRE – A HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION – PART THREE - FEDERAL PISTOLS, REVOLVERS & MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS Dean S. Thomas, 22cm x 29cm, 478 pages on art paper, cartridge packets, cartridges, patents, machinery and the people involved, many photographs and line drawings, £29.50

(NP100) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .30-30 WINCHESTER 41 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, tested loads, £6.25

(NP101) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 6.5 X 55 SWEDISH 36 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP102) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 30-06 SPRINGFIELD 86 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP103) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .270 WINCHESTER 86 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP104) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .30/.40 KRAG 43 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP105) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 22 HORNET 38 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP106) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .303 BRITISH 26 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP107) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 45-70 GOVERNMENT 53 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP108) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 8MM MAUSER 35 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP109) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 7.62 X 39MM 24 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP111) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .44 MAGNUM 63 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP112) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .308 WINCHESTER 76 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP114) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 7.62 X 54 RUSSIAN 24 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP115) A RELOADING MANUAL FOR FIREARMS OF THE OLD WEST 68 pages in card covers, calibres include 25-20 25-35 32-2- 32-40 38-40 38-55 40-65 44-40 loadings for handguns and rifles, £5.00

(NP116) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .45 A.C.P. 59 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP117) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .45 COLT 63 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP118) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .223 REMINGTON 54 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP119) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .32 H & R MAGNUM 24 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP123) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .243 WINCHESTER 86 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP125) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE 7MM MAUSER 64 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.25

(NP128) RIFLE BULLETS FOR THE HUNTER – A DEFINITIVE STUDY Dave Campbell (Editor), 312 pages, coloured photographs, contributions from many major writers on big game, £27.50

(NP129) TM9-1985-5 JAPANESE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE (ARMY AMMUNITION , NAVY AMMUNITION) Reprint of the 1953 edition, 547 pages in card covers, many photographs and line drawings, £20.00

(NP131) PETERS & KING – THE BIRTH & EVOLUTION OF THE PETERS CARTRIDGE CO. & THE KING POWDER CO. Thomas D. Schiffer, 29cm x 22cm, 256 pages, many intext photographs plus large colour section, £29.50

(NP132) THE COMPLETE RELOADING MANUAL FOR THE .38 SPECIAL 61 pages in card covers, bullets and powder data, £6.00

(NP133) HIGH PERFORMANCE LOADS FOR CLAYS Ballistic Products, 22cm x 29cm, 108 pages in card covers, loading tables etc., £8.00

(NP136) THE STATUS OF STEEL – A STEEL SHOTSHELL HANDLOADING AND SHOOTING GUIDE Ballistic Products, 21cm x 28cm, 88 pages in card covers, loading tables etc., £8.00

(NP139) LYMAN RELOADING HANDBOOK 49TH EDITION Thomas J. Griffin (Editor), 22cm x 28cm, 464 pages in card covers, latest version of Lyman’s comprehensive loading data, £21.50

(NP140) CARTRIDGE CASES Per Arne Andersen, Vidar Andersen & Trond Stromstad, Published by the authors 1st edition 1995, 22cm x 30cm, 419 pages, accurate line drawings of cases, 4 to a page, approximately 2000 cases from 2mm Kolibri to 12 gauge brass cases, AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR THE CARTRIDGE ENTHUSIAST - £65.00

(NP142) AMMO ENCYCLOPEDIA Michael Bussard, 21.5cm x 27.5cm, 790 pages in soft covers, excellent halfway between Cartridges of The world and Cartridge conversions, gives history, plus line drawings with dimensions. £23.50

(NP143) THE PAPER JACKET Paul Matthews, 140 pages, many photographs, casting, making the paper, and loading the paper patched bullet, £15.50

(NP144) NOTES ON .455 WEBLEY REVOLVER CARTRIDGES Lynn H. Harris, Published by the author, quarto, 40 pages in card covers, history, dimensions and headstamps, £9.50

(NP145) CASTING PREMIUM BULLETS FOR THE BLACK POWDER CARTRIDGE RIFLE (DVD) Paul A. Matthews, the book in DVD format, £15.00

(NP146) THE BIRMINGHAM CARTRIDGE MANUFACTURERS C.W. Harding, 22cm x 28cm, 282 pages, very well researched with tables, line drawings and many photographs in colour, An excellent addition to his previous ‘Eley Cartridges’ book, £45.00

(NP147) SIERRA HIGHPOWER RIFLE RELOADING WITH G. DAVID TUBB DVD, run time 3 hours, covering all aspects of accurate reloading, £21.00

(NP148) AMMO & BALLISTICS 4 – FOR HUNTERS, SHOOTERS, AND COLLECTORS Bob Forker, 22cm x 29cm, 438 pages, ballistic data out to 1000 yards for over 170 calibres and over 2400 loads, £18.95

(NP149) CARTRIDGES OF THE GRAS SYSTEM Philippe Mention & Christian Ramio, 22cm x 29cm, 147 pages, many photographs and line drawings, ammunition, construction, the dates headstamps packets etc., £29.50

(NP150) CARTRIDGES OF THE WORLD 12TH EDITION Frank C. Barnes, Edited by Layne Simpson, 22cm x 29cm, 568 pages a complete and illustrated reference for over 1500 cartridges, £20.95

(NP151) NEW EXACT SMALL ARMS BALLISTICS – THE SOURCE BOOK FOR RIFLEMEN Arthur J. Pejsa, 162 pages, basic ballistic information and formulae for drag, wing deflection, tilt, drop etc., prediction tables, £15.75

(NP152) GUN DIGEST BIG FAT BOOK OF THE .45 ACP Patrick Sweeney, 15cm x 23cm, 400 pages with many illustrations of the development, loading and variations of the .45 ACP cartridge, £18.49

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