Ordnance Memoranda, No. 21.  Ammunition, Fuses, Primers, Military Pyrotechny, etc.  Prepared under the direction of Brig. Gen. Stephen V. Benet, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. Army.  By Major James M. Whittemore, Commanding Frankfort Arsenal, and Lieut. F. Heath, Ordnance Department.  Revised and Corrected by the Ordnance Board.  Publication Authorized by the Secretary of War.  Washington:  Government Printing Office 1878.

This is a facsimile copy which is not dated.  Preceding the Title page is an Errata page.  121 pages followed by 25 illustrated plates.  8⅜”x11”x½”.

Soft cover in heavy red paper with metallic gold lettering and seal of the Ordnance Department.    The copy is in very good or better physical condition.  The owner’s stamp is impressed on the lower right hand corner of the first blank page.  All pages are clean and intact.  A very nice copy.  Hard to find.

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