[Rarebooks] 2 Works on Firearms bound together

Kenneth Karmiole kkarmiole at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 13 14:34:55 EDT 2022


(MILITARY)
Cotty, Gaspard-Hermann.  MEMOIRE SUR LA FABRICATION DES ARMES PORTATIVES DE GUERRE.  Paris: Magimel. 1806.8vo.  viii,229,(1)pp.  With 2 folding tables printed on 1 large sheet.  BOUND WITH;  France. Ministere de la Guerre.INSTRUCTION SUR LES ARMES A FEU ET ARMES BLANCHES PORTATIVES A L'USAGE DES TROUPES FRANCAISES.....Paris: Magimel. 1806.  45,(3)pp.  With 2 folded tables.  Both volumes bound together in cont. calf with ornately gilt spine, over marbled boards.  
Red morocco spine label.  Boards a bit rubbed, but a very good copy.
$350
Although both titles are published by Magimel in the same year, 1806, they are separately published.  Both relate to Napoleonic era firearms.Both are scarce.  There are 2 copies in the U.S. of the first title currently recorded by OCLC, and 4 copies of the second title currently recorded 
in the U.S.



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