The Principles and Practice of Modern Artillery: Including Artillery Material, Gunnery and Organization and Use of Artillery in Warfare (Owen's Modern Artillery)
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth 8vo; 472pp, 18 folding plates, 32p ads. First edition, first printing. About Very Good with sunning to the spine; light rubbing and bumping to the corners and spine ends. Mild foxing to the prelims and a few of the plates, but overall bright and clean. A scarce treatise, bearing the armorial bookplate of William James Smythe, commander of the Royal Artillery and Fellow of the Royal Society who served as commissioner to Fiji, advising on the strategic value of the proposed cession of the islands to Great Britain. Second bookplate appears on the rear pastedown. Very Good -. Item #702158
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