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THE WEAPONS,

ARMS & ARMOUR

COLLECTION

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A truly wonderful collection of over 170 rare vintage books, catalogues and documents compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of WEAPONS, ARMS & ARMOUR.

This is the most comprehensive collection of its kind available on ebay today. From ancient Egyptian weapons and Polynesian clubs, right the way through to the classic medieval knight’s armouries and the fire-arms of the early 19^th century – this is an entire virtual library for the weapons enthusiast or researcher. Discover the ancient weapons and arms of Europe and the Middle Ages. Learn about the development of gunpowder and explosives. Explore pages of historic pistols and antique guns. Uncover the secrets of the armouries in the Tower of London….

Some of these books are extremely rare (the oldest dates back to 1619) and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an interest in the history of weapons and armour around the world. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This superb compilation of 177 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in English with several additional texts in German and French.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A.E. Brooks's collection of antique guns, pistols, etc. by A. E. Brooks (1899)

A bibliography of guns and shooting, being a list of ancient and modern English and foreign books relating to firearms and their use, and to the composition and manufacture of explosives - W. Gerrare (1895)

A description of the sights or instruments for pointing guns - W. Congreve (1828)

A dictionary of explosives - J. P. Cundill (1889)

A glossary of terms used for articles of British dress and armour - J. Williams (1851)

A memoir on gunpowder - J. Braddock (1832)

A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Vol. 1 by G. F. Laking (1920)

A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Vol. 2 by G. F. Laking (1920)

A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Vol. 3 by G. F. Laking (1920)

A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Vol. 4 by G. F. Laking (1920)

A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Vol. 5 by G. F. Laking (1920)

A Short Account of Ancient Chivalry, and Description of Armour - T. H. Turner (1799)

A study of bows and arrows - S. T. Pope (1923)

A study of the savage weapons at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 by E. H. Knight (1880)

A treatise on ancient armour and weapons, illustrated by plates taken from the original armour in the tower of London, and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets by F. Grose (1786)

A treatise on ordnance and armor by A. L. Holley (1865)

Album contenant 40 photographies inalterables du Musée real Armeria de Madrid (1912)

Album hervorragender Gegenstände aus der Waffensammlung des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses Vol. 1 (1894) (German text)

Album hervorragender Gegenstände aus der Waffensammlung des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses Vol. 2 (1894) (German text)

Alfa catalogue of arms – A. F. E. Gesellschaft (1911)

Alte Waffen - E. Haenel (1920) (German text)

American inventions and improvements in breech-loading small arms, heavy ordnance, machine guns, magazine arms, etc; by C. B. Norton (1880)

American small arms; a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge for sportsmen and military men by E. S. Farrow (1904)

America's munitions 1917-1918 - B. Crowell (1919)

An illustrated history of arms and armour from the earliest period to the present time by A. Demmin (1911)

Ancient armour and weapons in Europe Vol. 1 - J. Hewitt (1855)

Ancient armour and weapons in Europe Vol. 2 - J. Hewitt (1855)

Ancient armour and weapons in Europe Vol. 3 - J. Hewitt (1855)

Ancient pistols and guns, edged weapons, rare old historic pieces, mainly the collection of C. H. Kindle, of Washington, D.C (1920)

Appendix to the book of the crossbow and ancient projectile engines by R. Payne-Gallwey (1907)

Armaments and their results by A. Carnegie (1909)

Armas y armaduras by A. Garcia Llanso (1895)

Armour & weapons by C. J. Ffoulkes (1909)

Armour & weapons in the middle ages by C. H. Ashdown (1922)

Armour in England from the earliest times to the reign of James the First by J. S. Gardner (1897)

Armour, and its attack by artillery by C. O. Browne (1887)

Arms & armour - C. H. Ashdown (1909)

Arms and armor of old Japan, gathered on a recent visit to Japan by Bunkio Matsuki (1906)

Arms and armour in antiquity and the Middle Ages (revised new ed.) - P. Lacombe (1905)

Arms and armour in antiquity and the Middle Ages by P. Lacombe (1893)

Army rifles by F. W. Hinkle (1908)

Artillery and explosives - A. Noble (1906)

Automatic shotgun (1906)

Breech loading fire arms and ammunition by Sharps Rifle Co. (1879)

British and foreign arms & armour by C. H. Ashdown (1909)

Catalog of the Borrowdale collection by Museum of New Mexico (1921)

Catálogo de la Real Armería by J. M. Marchesi (1849)

Catalogue des collections composant le Musée royal d'antiquités d'armures et d'artillerie (Bruxelles) (1878)

Catalogue of ethnological specimens - European and Eastern arms & armour, Prehistoric and other curiosities by W. D. Webster (1895)

Catalogue of European armour and arms in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House (1910)

Chemical Theory of Gunpowder - H. Debus (1881)

Class book for the School of Musketry, Hythe; prepared for the use of officers - E. C. Wilford (1861)

Club types of nuclear Polynesia by W. Churchill (1917)

Deanes' manual of the history and science of fire-arms - J. Deane (1858)

Die Kriegswaffen in ihren geschichtlichen Entwickelungen - A. F. demmin (1893) (German text)

Edged weapons, guns, pistols, pole arms, including the property of a United States army officer with his remarkable American Indian collection - Walpole Galleries Auction Catalogue (1923)

Educational charts. [Arms and armor] by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1917)

European arms and armour, mainly XV-XVI & XVII centuries by American Art Association (1922)

Experts on guns and shooting - G. T. Buckell (1900)

Firearms in American history by C. W. Sawyer (1910)

Firearms, edged weapons and powder horns, stirrups, spurs, sword-canes - Walpole Galleries Auction Catalogue (1921)

Firing regulations for small arms for the United States Army - United States War Dept. (1898)

Foreign armour in England by J. S. Gardner (1898)

Grenade warfare - notes on the training & organization of grenadiers - G. Dyson (1915)

Gruson's chilled cast-iron armour by J. Von Schutz (1887)

Gun making in the United States by R. Bernie (1907)

Gunnery and explosives for field artillery officers - United States. Field Artillery Board (1911)

Gunnery in 1858 - being a treatise on rifles, cannon, and sporting arms by W. Greener (1858)

Guns and gunning by B. H. Browne (1908)

Hand grenades; a handbook on rifle and hand grenades - G. Ainslie (1917)

Handbook of arms and armor - European and Oriental, including the William H. Riggs collection by B. Dean (1915)

Handbook of artillery - United States Army (1920)

Handbook on Ammunition (1921)

Handbuch der Waffenkunde - W. Boeheim (1890) (German text)

Helmets and body armor in modern warfare by D. Bashford (1920)

High explosive shells in the making by Maritime Manufacturing Corporation (1919)

High-explosive shell manufacture - D. T. Hamilton (1916)

Highland targets and other shields - J. Drummond (1873)

Hints on the use and handling of firearms generally, and the revolver in particular by H. O. Curling (1885)

History of the manufacture of explosives for the Great War, 1917-1918 - W. B. Williams (1919)

Illustrated catalogue of rare guns and sporting books - Walpole Galleries (1921)

Important collection of European arms and armor from XI to XVIII century by American Art Association (1922)

Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London Vol. 1 by C. J. Ffoulkes (1916)

Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London Vol. 2 by C. J. Ffoulkes (1916)

Japanese sword-mounts in the collections of Field Museum by H. C. Gunsaulus (1923)

Japanese swords by Yamanaka & Co. (1913)

Japanese swords guards by Okabe-Kakuya (1908)

Le sale d'armi del Consiglio dei Dieci nel Palazzo Ducale di Venezia - F. Berchet (1899)

Les armes - M. Maindron (1890) (Fench text)

Les armes et le duel - A. Grisier (1864) (Frecnh text)

Les armes et les armures par P. Lacombe (1868) (French text)

Machine guns by J. Hatcher (1917)

Maniement d'armes, d'arqvebvses, mousqvets, & picques selon l'ordre de monseig. le Prince Maurice par J. de Gheyn (1619) (French text)

Manual Of Explosives, Military Pyrotechnics and Chemical Warfare Agents - J. Bebie (1921)

Manufacture of artillery ammunition - l. P. Alford (1917)

Military antiquities respecting a history of the English Army, from the conquest to the present time Vol. 1 by F. Grose (1786)

Military antiquities respecting a history of the English Army, from the conquest to the present time Vol. 2 by F. Grose (1786)

Military explosives - United States. Army. Ordnace Dept (1919)

Military Pyrotechnics - United States War Dept. (1922)

Military pyrotechnics Vol. 2 - H. B. Faber (1919)

Military pyrotechnics Vol. 3 - H. B. Faber (1919)

Modern American pistols and revolvers. An account of the development of pistols and revolvers in America by A. Gould (1894)

Modern American rifles by A. C. Gould (1892)

Modern guns and smokeless powder - A. Rigg (1892)

Modern shot guns by W. W. Greener (1891)

Munition workers in England and France; a summary of reports issued by the British Ministry of Munitions by H. R. Walter (1917)

Musketry by E. J. Solano (1915)

New principles of gunnery - B. Robbins (1803)

North American bows, arrows, and quivers - O. T. Mason (1894)

Notes on arms and armor by B. Dean (1916)

Notes on Explosives, and Their Application in Torpedo Warfare - W. N. Hill (1875)

Notes on grenade warfare - US Army War College (1917)

Notes on military explosives (1st Ed.)- E. M. Weaver (1906)

Notes on military explosives (4th Ed. - revised and enlarged)- E. M. Weaver (1917)

On the weapons, army organisation, and political maxims of the ancient Hindus, with special reference to gunpowder and firearms - G. S. Oppert (1880)

Our big guns by F. J. Bramwell (1886)

Our Rifles - Firearms in American history by C. W. Sawyer (1920)

Pole arms, swords, fire-arms, helmets & other armour by Anderson Galleries Inc. (1921)

Pratique de la guerre - contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie, bombes et mortiers, feux artificiels & petards, sappes & mines, ponts & pontons, tranchées & trauaux - F. Malthus (1650)

Price list of Great Western Gun Works - J. H. Johnston (1872)

Primitive American armor by W. Hough (1895)

Primitive warfare by A. Pitt-Rivers (1867)

Professional notes - E. Maguire (1884)

Projectile weapons of war and explosive compounds - J. Scofern (1852)

Regulations for conducting the musketry instruction of the Army - Great Britain Army (1859)

Report on the application of gun-cotton to warlike purposes - J. Gladstone (1863)

Report to the government of the United States on the munitions of war - C. B. Norton (1868)

Rifles and shotguns by W. H. Miller (1917)

Rules for the management and cleaning of the rifle musket, model 1863, for the use of soldiers - United States War Dept. (1863)

Secrets of the sword by C. L. Bazancourt (1900)

Simeon North, first official pistol maker of the United States; a memoir by R. North (1913)

Smokeless powder and its influence on gun construction - J. A. Longridge (1890)

Spanish arms and armour, being a historical and descriptive account of the Royal armoury of Madrid by A. F. Calvert (1907)

Sporting firearms by H. Kephart (1912)

The American rifle - a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle by T. Whelen (1918)

The American shotgun by C. Askins (1910)

The Anglo-Saxon weapon names treated archæologically and etymologically by M. L. Keller (1906)

The armies of Europe, comprising descriptions in detail of the military systems of England, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sardinia - G. B. McClellan (1867)

The armies of industry; our nation's manufacture of munitions for a world in arms, 1917-1918 Vol. 1 by B. Crowell (1921)

The armies of industry; our nation's manufacture of munitions for a world in arms, 1917-1918 Vol. 2 by B. Crowell (1921)

The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century by C. J. Ffoulkes (1912)

The art of attack. Being a study in the development of weapons and appliances of offence, from the earliest times to the age of gunpowder by H. S. Cowper (1906)

The art of war in the Middle Ages, A.D. 378-1515 - C. Oman (1885)

The Book of the Crossbow by R. Payne-Galloway (1905)

The book of the machine gun by F. Longstaff (1917)

The book of the sword - R. F. Burton (1884)

The breech-loader, and how to use it - with notes on rifles W. W. Greener (1898)

The cross-bow - C. Stevenson (1899)

The Crossbow, Mediæval And Modern, Military And Sporting Its Construction, History And Management - R. Payne-Gallwey (1904)

The English in the middle ages - Their mode of life, dress, arms, occupations, and amusements by J. F. Hodgetts (1885)

The evolution of modern small arms and ammunition by E. C. R. Marks (1898)

The great historical collection of arms & armour - Anderson Galleries catalogue (1921)

The gun and its development (6th Edition) by W. W. Greener (1897)

The gun and its development (9th Edition) by W. W. Greener (1910)

The Japanese sword and its decoration by H. C. Gunsaulus (1922)

The making of arms and ammunition in the Confederacy by E. Smith (1921)

The manufacture of explosives, a theoretical and practical treatise on the history, the physical and chemical properties and the manufacture of explosives Vol. 1 - O. Guttman (1895)

The manufacture of explosives, a theoretical and practical treatise on the history, the physical and chemical properties and the manufacture of explosives Vol. 2 - O. Guttman (1895)

The modern American pistol and revolver - Including a description of modern pistols and revolvers of American make by A. Gould (1888)

The modern high explosives - Nitro-glycerine and dynamite - M. Eissler (1889)

The modern pistol and how to shoot it by W. Winans (1919)

The pistol and revolver by A. Himmelwright (1908)

The science of gunnery, as applied to the use and construction of fire arms - W. Greener (1841)

The sentiment of the sword by R.F. Burton (1911)

The shot-gun and sporting rifle by J. H. Walsh (1859)

The story of the guns by J. E. Tennent (1864)

Tools and weapons illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University college, London, and 2,000 outlines from other sources by W. M. F. Petrie (1917)

Trajes y armas de los españoles desde los tiempos prehistóricos hasta los primeros años del siglo XIX - F. Danvila y Collado (1877)

United States rifles and machine guns by F. H. Colvin (1917)

Weapons - Supplement (Marine Infantry Battalion) (1923)

Weapons (Marine Infantry Battalion) (1923)

Weapons and implements of savage races (Australasia, Oceania, and Africa) by L. Montague (1921)

Weapons and musketry (1921)

Weapons, a brief discourse on hand-weapons other than fire-arms by B. Sargeaunt (1908)

Zur Waffenkunde des älteren deutschen Mittelalters - A. Schulz (1867) (German text)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the history of weapons, arms and armour throughout history and from around the world – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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