(A1) BRITISH GUNMAKERS 1740 - 1790 - MESSRS GRIFFIN TOW & BAILES W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Historical Firearms 1st edition 1989, folio, 183 pages, many photo ills., Good+ in DW, £75.00
(A2) ARNENS ELDHANDVAPEN FORR OCH NU Josef Alm, Horsta Lorlag Stockholm 1953, 25cm x 20cm, 388 pages written in Swedish,with intext illustration and diagrams and line drawings, showing barrels, flintlocks, bayonets, rifles, pistols and ammunition, Book Good + in slightly torn and slight loss D.J. £15.00
(A3) VALENTIN SAUERBREY IN BASEL 1846 – 1881 Catalog of items in the Historical Museum, Basle, 21cm x 20cm, 43 pages in card covers, photographs of the replica guns produced by Valentin Sauerbrey in the 19th century, Prevolvers, long guns etc., Good, £12.00
(A4) BEWAFFNUNG UND AUSRUSTUNG DER SCHWEIZER ARMEE SEIT 1817. EIDGENOSSISCHE HANDFEUERWAFFEN Hugo Schneider and Michael am Rhyn, Verlag Stocker-Schmid, Dietikon-Zurich,1979, 30cm x 24cm, muzzle loading and cartridge model rifles, tools, marks etc. 179 pages in German, with black and white photographs and descriptions, line drawings and diagrams, a few colour photographs of ammunition, Book Good + in Good D.J.£35.00
(A5) THE EARLY PURDEYS Patrick Unsworth, Christies, 1996, 31cm x 22cm, 278 pages profusely illustrated with 49 excellent colour photographs, mostly of the percussion pistols, factory work records, Lovely book, Book V.G. in D.J. £100.00
(A6) ENGLISH GUNS & RIFLES J.N. George, Stackpole edition of the 1947 first printing, 345 pages, 23 photo plates, a classic work on long guns, VG+ in VG DW, £25.00
(A7) 45/70 TRAPDOOR SPRINGFIELDS IN THE DIXIE COLLECTION List of the serials, and identifying differences of the arms in the collection, some photo illustrations, soft cover, Good+, £3.50
(A8) HALF CENTURY SCRAPBOOK OF VARI-TYPE FIREARMS Cata by F.Theodore Dexter, 202 pages and 96 plates, 28cm x 23cm, ring bound card covers, based on the pictorial and descriptive catalog of the Frank E. Bivens inspirational collection of Varitype Firearms, and accessories, Book Good only it has been damped at the edges at some time, £15.00
(A9) ENGLISH GUNS & RIFLES J.N. George, Samworth 1947 first edition, 345 pages, 23 photo plates, a classic work on long guns, Good+, £25.00
(A10) THE REV. ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH. INVENTOR OF THE PERCUSSION LOCK. Maj. Gen. Sir Alexander John Forsythe Reid, Aberdeen1955, 22cm x 15cm, 35 pages of text plus 6 pages of plates, his invention of the percussion lock, Book Good £18.00
(A11) RIFLED INFANTRY ARMS. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MODERN SYSTEM OF SMALL ARMS J.Schon, 1965 reprint of the 1855 edition, Translated from the German by J.Gorgas, 1965, 28cm x 21cm, 52 pages plus 13 fold-out plates in card covers, Good +, £12.00
(A12) GUNS AND RIFLES OF THE WORLD Howard L. Blackmore, Batsford 1971, 23cm x 31cm, 134 pages of text plus section containing 869 photo illustrations, nearly all antique firearms, book VG in DJ, £25.00
(A13) ARMS & ARMOR OF THE PILGRIMS Harold L.Peterson, Plimoth Plantation 1957, 23cm x 15cm, 29 pages with black and white illustrations through-out. Book Good in paper covers £2.00
(A14) DANISCHE ORGELSPINGOLEN MIT EINHEITSPATRONEN 1850 – 1877 Egon Eriksen, Copenhagen 1945, 19cm x 27cm, zwei danische erfindungeon von N.J.Lobnitz, 1848 – 1877, intext photographs, 59 pages in card covers, Good +, £7.50
(A15) U.S.ARMY WEAPONS – 1784-1791 William H. Guthman, The American Society of Arms Collectors, 1975. 28cm x 22cm, 36 pages of text and 62 plates at rear in black and white, with descriptions, Book Good + in card covers, £10.50
(A16) FIREARMS IN ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY T.F.Tout, intraduction by Claude Blair, Arms & Armour Press 1968, 57 pages in card covers including 9 photo illustrations, Good, £5.00
(A17) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1984 TRADE GUN CONFERENCE. IN 2 PARTS. Sponsored by the Arthur C. Parker Fund for Iroquois Research. Research Records no. 18. 1985.28cm x 22cm, Part 1, Dutch and other Flintlocks from Seventeenth Century Uroquois Sites by Jan Piet Puype. 120 pages with many intext photographs, line drawings and graphs, Part 11, Selected Papers. 113 pages with illustrations in black and white Books Good + in card covers. £25.00
(A18) JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARMSMAKING TECHNOLOGY National Muzzleloading Rifle Ass. 1988, Volume 111. June 1988, 23cm x 16cm, 165 pages plus 1 large fold-out plate at rear, plus intext illustrations, Book Good only as some pages loose, The Brandenburg School of Gunmaking , text in Old German and English, £4.00
(A19) WILLIAM PALMER MASTER ENGRAVER 1737 – 1812 With 179 pages and plates at rear , in black and white, Book Good + in card covers. £25.00
(A24) SUPERIMPOSED LOAD FIREARMS 1360 - 1860 D.R. Baxter, Published by the author 1966, 1st limited edition of 500 numbered copies (437), 536 pages inc. 177 photo plates, nice clean copy in good Dustwrapper, £150.00
(A25) ESPINGARDA PERFEYTA OR THE PERFECT GUN Ed. & translated by R. Daehnhardt & W. Keith Neal, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 466 pages, 443 pages original 1718 text one page & English opposite plus 31 photo plates, VG in worn DW, £25.00
(A26) THE MANTON SUPPLEMENT W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Compton press 1978, 279 pages, further information to add to 'The Mantons', Fine in DW, £30.00
(A29) A HISTORY OF SPANISH FIREARMS James D. Lavin, Herbert Jenkins 1965, 304 pages with 115 photo illustrations, the history, beginning with the recorded appearance of gunpowder in Spain, tracing the development of hand firearms through their golden age, the eighteenth century, Book V.G.in DJ, £60.00
(A33) HENRY DERINGER’S POCKET PISTOL John E. Parsons, William Morrow 1952, 255 pages, with many black and white illustrations, Book Good +, £45.00
(A39) CATALOGUE - ARMES ANCIENNES – COLLECTION CHARLES DRAEGER 1987, 22cm x 28cm, 213 lots with fine colour photographs, long guns and pistols some cased, makers and dates, good reference book VG in DW, £25.00
(A43) FORSYTH & CO. PATENT GUNMAKERS W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Bell, 1st edition 1969, 280 pages with 9 colour illustrations and 111 in black & white, book ex library but G+ in DJ, £49.50.
(A45) MAGYAR VADASZ LOPORTARTOK Borsos Bela, Corvina Kiado, 1982, 91 pages of text plus 40 colour photographs of Stag Horn Powder Flasks, Book Good + in D.J.Ex Library, £15.00
(A50) THE RUDOLPH J. NUNNEMACHER COLLECTION OF PROJECTILE ARMS. 2 VOLUMES. PART ONE. LONG ARMS AND PART TWO SHORT ARMS. John Metschl, 1928, Milwaukee, originally bound in paper covers, This set bound in half tan leather with red boards, only 800 sets were originally printed and no reissues, descriptions of specimens and illustrations, with a section entitled Origin, Purposes and Rise of Projectile Arms by Dr. Paul B. Jenkins, a convenient source of information for identification of collectors firearms, profusely illustrated in both volumes at the rear of the books, Books Good +, £145.00
(A53) GREAT BRITISH GUNMAKERS 1540 - 1740 W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, historical Firearms 1984, folio, 480 pages on glossy paper, a fine and comprehensive work on the early gunmakers, excellent photographs as you would expect from these foremost experts, fine in Dj, £85.00
(A54) ROYAL ARMS AT ROSENBORG – (DELUXE LEATHER BOUND EDITION) Danish Arms and Armour Society 1956, 2 volumes, quarto, Vol. 1, 223 pages of text, Volume 2, 93 photo plates with descriptions, both volumes VG in dustjackets in original slipcase, 44 plates of edged weapons and 48 of firearms, mostly flint, both volumes of this de-luxe edition bound in red calf leather, excellent set, £125.00
(A66) THE RUDOLPH J. NUNNEMACHER COLLECTION OF PROJECTILE ARMS ( 2 VOLUMES) Greenwood Press 1970 reprint of the 1928 edition with preface to this edition by Eldon G. Wolff, Volume 1 – Long Arms, 283 pages plus 63 photo plates, Volume 2 – Short Arms, 494 pages plus 49 photo plates, both volumes Good+, £49.00
(A81) A CENTURY OF GUNS - A SKETCH OF THE LEADING TYPES OF SPORTING AND MILITARY SMALL ARMS H.J. Blanch, Published by Blanch in 1909 1st edition, quarto, 150 ills., mostly breech loading systems, 153 pages, Good + £70.00
(A93) RIFLES AND PISTOLS Landesmuseum Handbook, 19cm x 21cm, 68 pages in card covers, coloured photo illustrations, Good+, £3.50
(A94) U.S.MARTIAL AND SEMI-MARTIAL SINGLE-SHOT PISTOLS Charles Edward Chapel, Coward-McCann, 22cm x 16cm, 386 pages with diagrams and line drawings of pistols and ammunition, Book Good IN DJ £10.00
(A104) THE GUN COLLECTORS FACT BOOK Louis William Steinwedel, Arco, 217 pages, with many black and white illustrations, covers early American Rifles & Pistols, Where and how to buy, hints on restoration, Good in card wraps, Ex Library £5.00
(A126) KATALOG DRESDENER BUCHSENMACHER 16 – 18. JH Historisches Museum, 1975, 139 pages, with many colour and black and white photographs and descriptions, with 23 photographs of makers marks at rear, dating from 1544, Text in German, Book Good + in card covers, Ex Library £10.00
(A130) DIE BEWAFFNUNG DER PREUSCHEN FUSRUPPEN B.Menges, 1969 reprint of the 1913 edition, 78 pages, with intext line drawings, mit Gewehren ( Buchfen ) von 1809 bis zur Gegenwart, text in German, Book Good + in D.J. slightly torn, £14.00
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NEW BOOKS ON ANTIQUE FIREARMS
(NA1) .577 PATTERN 1853 RIFLE MUSKET AND SNIDER ENFIELD I. Skennerton, Small Arms Identification series, 48 pages in card covers, £7.00
(NA5) BRITISH MILITARY FLINTLOCK RIFLES 1740 – 1840 De Witt Bailey, Folio, 264 pages, with many photographs, issue details etc., Pattern 1776, Ferguson, Baker, Cavalry rifles, Hessian rifles, bayonets & accoutrements, ammunition and much more, £37.50
(NA7) TRADE GUNS OF THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY 167 – 1970 S. James Gooding, 158 pages, detail photographs, numbers and letters from company records etc., £28.95
(NA8) GREAT BRITISH GUNMAKERS - THE MANTONS 1782 - 1878 D.H.L.Back, 22cm x 30cm, 144 pages plus pages section with 150 photographs., £79.95
(NA10) THE FUSIL DE TULLE IN NEW FRANCE 1691 - 1714 Russell Bouchard, 48 pages in paper wraps, photo ills., recent addition to the excellent 'Historical Arms' series, £8.50
(NA11) THE QUEEN ANNE PISTOL 1660 – 1780 John W. Burgoyne, 114 pages with 183 photo illustrations, covers the pistols, silver decorations, accessories etc., £25.50
(NA12) MUSKETS OF THE REVOLUTION AND THE FRENCH & INDIAN WARS Bill Ahearn, 22cm x 29cm, 248 pages with detail photographs of the guns, markings etc., ‘The Smoothbore Longarm in Early America, including British, Dutch, German Spanish and other Weapons, £39.50
(NA14) ALL ABOUT SOUTHERNERS Lionel Bogut, 114 pages with many photo illustrations, the story of the .41 rimfire calibre derringers of Brown Manufacturing and Merrimack Arms Manufacturing, A signed and numbered limited edition, £22.50
(NA15) THE BLUNDERBUSS 1500 - 1900 James D. Forman, 40 pages in paper wraps with 53 illustrations, £8.50
(NA16) GREAT BRITISH GUNMAKERS - FORSYTH & CO PATENT GUNMAKERS 1806 - 1852 D.H.L. Back, quarto, 252 pages with many colour and mono photo ills., £85.00
(NA17) THE BRITISH DUELLING PISTOL John A. Atkinson, quarto, 108 pages with 88 photo ills., with notes on many famous gunmakers, excellent reference, £25.50
(NA18) LONDON GUNMAKERS AND THE ENGLISH DUELLING PISTOL 1770 - 1830 Keith R. Dill, 36 pages in paper wraps with 40 photo ills., £8.50
(NA19) SCOTTISH FIREARMS Claude Blair & Robert Woosnam- Savage, 52 pages in paper wraps, photo ills., and a register of Scottish long guns, £8.50
(NA20) THE MORTIMER GUNMAKERS 1753 – 1923 H. Lee Munson, 22cm x 29cm, 313 pages, 477 photo illustrations, definitive work on a classic English maker., £52.50
(NA21) ETHAN ALLEN AND ALLEN & WHEELOCK – THEIR GUNS AND THEIR LEGACY Paul Henry, 22.5cm x 29cm, 230 pages, full of colour photographs, their single shot pistols, pepperboxes and revolvers, Rifles, ammunition , sights etc, £44.95
(NA22) SOUTHERN DERRINGERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Turner Kirkland, 102 pages in card wraps, many photo ills, makers etc. of percussion models, £4.00
(NA23) BRITISH BOARD OF ORDNANCE SMALL ARMS CONTRACTORS 1689 – 1840 De Witt Bailey, quarto,96 pages in soft covers, as usual by this author, this is an original and comprehensive study of makers in alphabetical order, £12.50
(NA25) THE BELTON SYSTEMS, 1785 AND 1784 – 86 : AMERICA’S FIRST REPEATING FIREARMS Robert Held, large quarto, 94 pages, detailed photographs, many in colour, £12.00
(NA26) GOLD COLTS – A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAVE YOUNG Nelson Perry, oblong quarto, 29cm x 22cm, 206 pages full of colour photographs of the gold engraved and inlaid works of the engraver Gustave Young, who engraved guns for the Colt factory from 1852 to 1869, a numbered limited edition, £35.00
(NA27) 18TH CENTURY WEAPONS OF ROYAL WELSH FUZILIERS FROM FLIXTON HALL Erik Goldstein, 22cm x 28cm, 126 pages in card covers, a history of the collection, many photo illustrations, includes firearms, bayonets and other edged weapons, £13.50
(NA28) THE DARLING PEPPERBOX Stuart C. Mowbray, 104 pages in card covers, many photo illustrations and line drawings, ‘The Story of Samuel Colt’s forgotten Competitors in Bellingham. Mass. And Woonsocket, RI. £14.95
(NA32) THE DERINGER IN AMERICA – VOLUME 1 – THE PERCUSSION PERIOD R.L.Wilson & L.D. Eberhart, quarto, 271 pages illustrated with many fine photographs in colour and mono, £37.50
(NA33) U.S. MILITARY FLINTLOCK MUSKETS AND THEIR BAYONETS : THE EARLY
YEARS 1790 – 1815
Peter A. Schmit, 22.5cm x 29cm, 431 pages, detailed photographs, explanation
of markings, makers, rebuilds etc, £39.50
(NA34) U.S. MILITARY FLINTLOCK MUSKETS AND THEIR BAYONETS : THE LATER YEARS 1816 THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Peter A. Schmit, 22.5cm x 29cm, 373 pages, detailed photographs, explanation of markings, makers, rebuilds etc, £45.50
(NA35) FIREARMS FROM EUROPE – A HISTORY OF FIREARMS IMPORTED DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BY THE UNITED STATES AND CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA David Noe, Larry W. Yantz and James B. Whisker, quarto,192 pages with many photographs, an excellent reference, not only in its intended context, but also to European shoulder and short arms of the period, £34.50
(NA38) SYSTEME LEFAUCHEUX – CONTINUING THE STUDY OF PINFIRE CARTRIDGE ARMS, INCLUDING THEIR ROLE IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Chris C. Curtis, 22cm x 29cm, 312 pages, beautifully produced with many photographs of pistols, long arms and others, £30.95
(NA39)THE BRITISH SOLDIERS FIREARMS FROM SMOOTHBORE TO SMALLBORE 1850 -1864 Dr. C.H. Roads, 332 pages, with 360 photo ills., the definitive work on the subject, £45.00
(NA40) PETER FINER CATALOGUE 2006 22cm x 31.5cm, 306 pages hardbound, containing details and superb colour photographs of 50 items, armour, firearms, edged weapons and crossbows, an excellent high quality reference, £25.00
(NA41) WILLIAM TRANTER, BIRMINGHAM 1849 – 1890 Wolfgang Berk, 32cm x 22cm x 2.5cm, 280 pages, the first 92 pages are text in English & German, the remainder of the book contains over 500 superb colour photographs, of Tranter’s percussion and cartridge revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, and even a photograph of the recently discovered Tranter machine gun. The text has history, a description of Tranter’s numbering system, and the serial numbers. Patent specifications and much more, taken from the Authors collection this is undoubtedly the most comprehensive work on William Tranter’s achievements, (FREE POSTAGE ON THIS BOOK IN THE UK WORTH £6.95). £79.50
(NA42) BIRMINGHAM GUNWORKERS CIRCA 1767 – 1800 Compiled by Douglas Nye, 13 pages, useful reference, £3.50
(ND76) JAMES DIXON & SONS CATALOGUE 1883 Reprint of the 1883 catalogue of sporting accessories, 60 pages in card covers, reloading equipment, mostly flasks and their accessories, belts, counters etc., £16.50
(NA77) THE FLINTLOCK – ITS ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, AND USE Torsten Lenk, 22cm x 28cm, 188 pages in soft covers, English reprint of this classic work from 1939, many photo illustrations, engraving etc., £15.95
(NA78) SMALL ARMS OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN AMERICA 1664 – 1815 De Witt Bailey, 22cm x 29cm, 375 pages, photographs, The arms used, the artillery, the regiments that employed them and their issue, the ammunition and much more. £49.50
(NA80) AIR GUNS Eldon G. Wolff, 226 pages in soft covers, enlarged 1997 edition, many photographs, list of makers etc, classic work on antique reservoir airguns, £24.95
(NA200) THE EAGLE ON U.S. FIREARMS John W. Jordan, quarto, 140 pages in soft covers, with many photo ills of the mark in use, £11.50
(NB213) THE U.S. MODEL 1861 SPRINGFIELD RIFLE-MUSKET – 2nd EDITION James B. Whisker, Daniel D. Hartzler, & Larry W. Yantz, 23 cm x 30, 284 pages full of detailed photographs, makers, production figures and variations, £38.95