~Very Rare 1846 Civil War Rifles / Musket Sharp Shooting Illustrated Book ~

A Treatise on the Rifle, Musket, Pistol, and Fowling-Piece; Embracing Projectiles and Sharp-Shooting 1846, New York: J. S. Redfield Also the Manufacture of Guns, and the Preparation of the Materials Suited to Their Construction, A New armament proposed - more efficient, ornamental, and of less weight.

This is an extremely scarce early rare title on pre-civil war guns and projectiles (only reprints to be found), 113 pages, wealth of information on the subject of early 19th century Rifles / Muskets and Pistols, catalog of books in back.  Book in very good condition for age, scattered foxing throughout.  Buyer to pay $4 shipping, no reserve!

Contents include: Description of the rifleRifle-practicePoint-blank definedDisparting explainedRifle-practice continuedGreat range of the Seminole rifleNumber of musket-balls fired at the battle of PragueThe fall of heavy bodiesTable of falling bodiesLaws of motionProjectiles, and projectile forcesNapoleon's great range of six thousand yardsChamber in mortars and howitzersResisting media-elastic and non-elasticRefractionObjects elevated by refractionObjects greatly magnifiedOf double images sometimes invertedObjects both magnified and elevatedCause of these interesting phenomenaMaterials for the construction of gunsWrought-ironGovernment standard of iron for gunsCast-steelCast-iron for ordnanceAll the compounds of carbon with ironBrass for the construction of gunsTin, different kinds of strengthBrass artillery of New YorkHeavy ordnance, of wrought-iron, of cast-ironBall-practice with musket, and guns not rilledPistol-shooting, and pistol-galleries of New YorkVelocity, relative charge, and force of balls in horse-powerNew armament proposedThe fowling-piece-theory and practice of shot-shooting.

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FRENCH INDIAN WAR 1755 SCOTS MAGAZINE MUSKET IMPROVEMENTS AMISH INDIANS VIRGINIA

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THE SCOTS MAGAZINE APRIL 1755

A fine and genuine period informative magazine., issued two months before Col. George Washington took command of the land forces during the French and Indian War.

Issue published in double columns for maximum information., and is a magazine covering in detail all sorts of subjects, from sciences and medical and the war in the British Provinces of America.  Small 8vo., clean, no odors. 46pp.

This issue has a load of great information , just as it was happening., and as they got the news from the ship arrivals., news of a new coating on the insides of muskets to make the ball fly faster, saying it is a secret., the section is quite detailed.  Also improvements to church music that even the uneducated can enjoy the music.

News and good section on education of the German Pennsylvania population [ likely Amish ancesters ].,  news and details of the conflict between France and Britain and the American Plantations, and news of the French in Virigina with large convoys of troops and supplies and that Pepperell and Shirley's Regiments were up to full capacity., [ Pepperell was knighted after his capture of the French fort in Canada. Sir William Pepperell, the only American colonist Knighted. Shirley, became the Colonial Governor of Massachusetts-Bay., MUCH MUCH MORE., a fine and scarce magazine issue. No odors, no stains.

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