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Gottfr. Basse, Quedlinburg & Leipzig, 1832. This 

 book of 84 pp. and three plates of drawings somewhat 

 belies its title. It consists for the most part of de- 

 scriptions of new inventions, translations of newspaper 

 articles and excerpts from technical papers. It has 

 an illustrated description of a double-barrelled breech- 

 loading fowling-piece furnished with a safety lock. 

 Also a description of an intercepting safety bolt working 

 from a lever on the hand of the gun-stock, for which 

 invention we are informed that Dr. Romershaufen 

 received the Civil- Verdienst-orden from his Majesty. 

 The book contains interesting details of improvements 

 in gun-locks, the manufacture of detonating balls, 

 fulminating powder, and copper caps ; also of thread- 

 wound shot cartridges, experiments with wire car- 

 tridges, the oval bore, etc. The gun factories at Tulle 

 and Votka (Viatka) are described in detail ; but with 

 the exception of recipes for browning gun-barrels the 

 technical instruction is wanting. 



614. JAGERSCHULE. Chr. F. E. Thon. An instruction- 

 book for sportsmen and foresters, with a vocabulary of 

 technical words. Various editions (published annually 

 with calendar). Ilmenau, 1834. Svo, 25 illustrations. 

 6 lithographed plates. Subsequently issued by Voigt, 

 Weimar. Price 2th. lOngr. 



615. KUNST auf der Jagd gut zu Schiessen. E. JEichenlaub. 

 A practical treatise on the art of shooting with the 

 shot gun and sporting rifle ; the various kinds of game 

 and methods to be used in aiming, etc., described. 

 Contains also a glossary of sporting and technical 

 words. Various editions published, some with litho- 

 graphed illustrations. Furst, Nordhausen, 1834-41. 

 16nao. 



616. VOLKOMMENE JAGER. L. Hoffman. The art of 

 expert shooting. According to Souhait, first edition 

 appeared in 1811. Tender & Schaefer, Vienna, 1834. 

 3rd edition. 



