(F100) THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON – THE ORDNANCE H.L Blackmore, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1976, Large Quarto, 9 in by 11in, 425 pages with coloured frontice and 80 photo plates, VG+ in DW, in original mailing box, £55.00
(F101) BALLISTICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A.R.Hall, Cambridge University, 1952, 186 pages, with 4 plates, the history of the inception and growth, practical and theoretical, Book Good + in D.J. £39.00
(F102) AN UNIVERSAL MILITARY DICTIONARY - A COPIOUS EXPLANATION OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS , USED IN THE EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY, MOVEMENTS AND MILITARY OPERATIONS OF AN ARMY Capt. George Smith, Inspector Of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, J. Millan, London 1779, quarto, 9in x 11in, A to Z references, approximately 200 pages, plus 16 large fold out engraved plates of fortifications, cannon, drill etc, contents generally good in modern navy cloth boards, £200.00
(F103) AIDE MEMOIRE PORTATIF DE CAMPAGNE A L’USAGE DES OFFICIERS D’ARTILLERIE 1864, 10cm x 15cm, 335 pages plus 14 plates at rear, tactics, tables etc, Good+, £25.00
(F105) THE GUN FOUNDERS OF ENGLAND - WITH A LIST OF ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL GUN-FOUNDERS FROM THE XIV TO THE XIX CENTURY Charles Ffoulkes, Cambridge Arms & Armour Press 1969, 22cm x 29.5cm, 134 pages plus 15 plates and 38 intext illustrations, VG+ in damaged DJ, , £28.00
(F109) THE STORY OF THE GUNS Sir J. Emerson Tennent, Longman 1st edition 1864, 364 pages, 33 illustrations, much information on the Whitworth developments in the controversy over the governments adoption of a system for artillery, rebound in modern binding, but contents Very Good +, scarce in first edition, £100.00
(F110) THE GUN FOUNDERS OF ENGLAND - WITH A LIST OF ENGLISH AND CONTINENTALGUN-FOUNDERS FROM THE XIV TO THE XIX CENTURY Charles Ffoulkes, Cambridge 1st edition 1936, large quarto, 134 pages plus 15 plates and 38 intextillustrations, G+ in faded cloth boards, £60.00
(F113) LA POUDRE A CANON ET LES NOUVEAUX CORPS EXPLOSIVES Maxime Helene, Hachette Paris 1886, history and manufacture of gunpowder and fulminates, use of explosives, torpedoes etc. 315 pages with many intext line drawings, G+, £52.50
CIRCA 1870 ONWARDS
(F1) ANTI – AIRCRAFT GUNS Peter Chamberlain & Terry Gander, Jane’s, WW2 fact Files, quarto, 64 pages in soft covers, full of photo illustrations, Book Good, £4.50
(F2) A HISTORY OF ARTILLERY Ian V. Hogg, Hamlyn 1974, 23cm x 31cm, 240 pages, full of photo illustrations plus special artwork by John Batchelor, Good+ in DJ, £8.00
(F3) LIGHT AND MEDIUM ARTILLERY Peter Chamberlain & Terry Gander, Jane’s, WW2 fact Files, quarto, 64 pages in soft covers, full of photo illustrations, Book Good, £4.50
(F4) GERMAN RAILROAD GUNS IN ACTION Joachim Engelmann, illustrated by Don Greer, Squadron/signal, 1976, oblong quarto, 50 pages, with many black and white photographs and line drawings, Armor No. 15, Book Good + in card covers, £6.00
(F6) LIGHT AND MEDIUM FIELD ARTILLERY Chamberlain & Gander, quarto, Macdonald 1975, 64 pages in card covers, many photo illustrations, Good +, £3.50
(F7) JANE’S UNDERWATER WARFARE SYSTEMS 1989 – 90 Bernard Blake (Editor), 22cm x 32cm, 207 pages, torpedoes, sonar, submarine equipment, photo illustrations, Good+, £10.00
(F8) GERMAN ARTILLERY OF WORLD WAR TWO Ian V.Hogg, Greenhill, 1997, Quarto, 304 pages, with 250 photographs and 150 drawings, the complete story of German artillery during World War Two, Book Good + in D.J. £15.00
(F10) VICKERS ARMSTRONG An extensive scrapbook approx 3cm thick, of newspaper cuttings from 1926 and 1927, compiled by the Swan family, and relating to the takeover and state of the Vickers Armstrong Company, £55.00
(F11) PROGRAMME OF GUNNERY AND TORPEDO TRIALS OF H.M.S. ‘SWIFTSURE’ Armstrong Whitworth March 1904, 24 pages, line drawing of weapons layout, good, £24.00
(F12) ALLIED ARTILLERY OF WORLD WAR ONE Ian V.Hogg, Crowood, first edition 1998, Quarto, 224 pages, with over 200 photographs, with field, heavy, railway, anti-aircraft and coast defence artillery and ammunition, Book Good + in D.J. £10.00
(F15) ARTILLERY AND EXPLOSIVES – ESSAYS AND LECTURES WRITTEN AND DELIVERED AT VARIOUS TIMES Sir Andrew Noble, Murray 1906, 548 pages, 79 full page tables and illustrations, plus many others intext, overall Good+, £68.00
(F45) DER ARTILLERIST Gilbert, Berlag, Germany, 1923 ,393 pages, line drawings, charts and diagrams, written in old German, Book Good Ex Library, with usual stamps, £30.00
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE DISBOUND FROM GOVERNMENT REPORTS. THE ARE ALL FOOLSCAP (12.5IN X 8IN) AND ARE COMPLETE
(F79) ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF THE ORDNANCE FACTORIES FOR THE YEAR 1905– 1906 WITH THE REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL THEREON 1st March 1906, 466 pages, foolscap, no covers, accounts of ‘The Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich’, ‘The Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich’, ‘The Royal Laboratory, Woolwich’, ‘The Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey’, ‘The Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock’, ‘The Royal Small Arms Factory, Birmingham’, and The Building Works Department, Gas Factory, detailed costings of parts all separately listed., £70.00
(F82) ORDNANCE FACTORY ESTIMATES 1906 - 1907 8 page table of figures, £6.00
NEW BOOKS ON ARTILLERY
(NF2) GRASSHOPPERS AND BUTTERFLIES : THE LIGHT 3 POUNDERS OF PATTISON AND TOWNSHEND Ardian B. Caruana, 32 pages in paper wraps, 30 photo ills. And line drawings, £4.25
(NF3) GUIDE TO CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY PROJECTILES Jack Melton & Lawrence Pawl, 22cm x 28cm, 96 pages in soft covers, excellent photographs with description, £7.50
(NF4) A TREATISE OF ARTILLERY 1780 John Muller, Reprint of the 1780 edition, 216 pages in card wraps, including an introduction with a theory of powder applied to fire - arms, line drawings, £12.50
(NF5) CANNONS – AN INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY Dean S. Thomas, 22cm x 28cm, 72 pages in soft covers, many photo illustrations including the projectiles, £4.95
(NF6) DR. JOSEPHUS REQUA CIVIL WAR DENTIST, AND THE BILLINGHURST-REQUA VOLLEY GUN Hyson & Requa-Defrancisco, 36 pages in paper wraps with 33 photo ills., £4.25
(NF) THE BIG GUNS – CIVIL WAR SEIGE, SEACOAST AND NAVAL CANNON Olmstead, Stark and Tucker, 22cm x 29cm, 360 pages, photographs and line drawing with dimensions, in depth study of the artillery, with quantities, makers etc., £49.50
(NF16) SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE Donald E. Graves, 32 pages in paper wraps, photo ills etc., £5.00