[Rarebooks] fs: Scarce Artillery Books 1889 & 1915

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Two scarce titles on this explosive subject-

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Allason, Ugo. IMPIEGO DELL'ARTIGLIERA IN GUERRA. Rome; Voghera Carlo: 1889. 
An interesting 19th century treatise on the use and theory of artillery in 
war. Allason was a Master of Artillery as well as a Professor at the Scuola 
d'Applicazione d'Artiglieria.

Bookfinder locates only one other copy, for $55 in Italy.

Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 476 pages, bound in marbled boards and a plain 
leather spine with gilt rules; ex-institutional with the bookplate of the 
Biblioteca Caproni and a very small spine label. Covers a bit worn, 
endpapers lightly spotted, text browned, with minor scattered spotting. 
[02255] $50.00 net.

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"NOTRE 75 PAR UN ARTILLEUR" Paris; Librairie Aristide Quillet: 1915. A 
handsome salute to the French 75 mm artillery piece, one of the most 
important artillery developments in the 20th century. Officially designated 
the 75 mm Field Gun, Model of 1897, the "75" featured a revolutionary 
recoil system. The "75" was used by both French and American forces in the 
First World War, and Captain Harry S. Truman of the 129th Field Artillery 
regiment commanded a battery of them. The gun was still in use in 1941 in 
the Philippines and North Africa. There are reports that some Third World 
armies used the "75" into the 1970s. This book includes many illustrations 
of the gun being set up and fired, and a full-color frontispiece which 
features colored cut-aways on tabs that allow you to look inside the 
innards of the gun.

Bookfinder locates no copies except ours.

Hardcover. 9.5"x12", 52 pages, b/w illustrations, plus a colored cut-away 
frontispiece with folding flaps. Light soil, corner bump. Light period 
ownership inscription of "Raymond S. Wilknis (?) 1st Lt. 3017 A - 52 Essex 
St., Salem, Mass. U.S.A." [02931] $125.00 net

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Or take both for $150 net.



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