"Rodolphe Schmidt "portable Firearms" Original Edition 1877 Text + Atlas 58 Pl. Col."
SCHMIDT (Rodolphe). Portable firearms, their origin and their historical and technical development up to the present day, by Rodolphe Schmidt, Major in the Swiss General Staff and Director of the Federal Arms Factory. With an atlas of 58 plates containing more than 400 chromolithographic drawings. P., Tanera, 1877, 1 vol. in-4° (250 x 190) bound 1/2 burgundy shagreen, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt author and title, covers of black and pink marbled paper, of (3) ll. (half-title, title and preface) - 195 pp. (errata on the back of p. 195) - 8 pp. (title of the atlas and table of plates) - 58 plates.
Yellowed paper, very rare foxing, very fine copy.
Translated from the German by JN Cuttat, engineer, first lieutenant of engineers of the Swiss army.
Rare first edition embellished with 58 very beautiful chromolithography plates.
Ref. library. : Thiébaud, col. 834.
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