The Revolver: Its Description, Management, And Use; With Hints On Rifle Clubs And The Defence Of The Country

PATRICK EDWARD DOVE

Publication: Adams and Charles Black, 1858, Edinburgh

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter cloth and pictorial paper over boards, [5], 57 [3] pp., frontispiece, illustrated, plates. The rifle and the revolver are nearly as old as the invention of firearms No one knows who invented them, where they were first introduced, nor even to which country they originally belong. Much important early information about the revolver. Some cosmetic touch-up to the spine ends, corners and extremities, internally clean and sound, else a good copy. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine

Inventory Number: 51017