MODERN ENGLISH BOOKS. 



GUNS AND SHOOTING GUNMAKING GUN 

 TKADE PEOOF OF GUNS. 



1001. GUN CLEANING, LOADING, etc. ; being practical hints 

 to young sportsmen. G. Webb. A handbook of in- 

 structions. Simpkin, 1857. 12mo, 2s. Qd. 



1002. GUNNEKY in 1858. W. Greener. The last of the 

 late Mr. W. Greener's books. It is a compendious 

 treatise of rifles, cannon and sporting arms, the science 

 of gunnery and criticisms of new inventions; full of 

 controversial matter; and although embodying " The 

 Gun," is inferior in point of originality to previous 

 works of the same author. Smith, Elder & Co., 

 London, 1858. 8vo, 440 pp., 5 plates, 37 woodcuts, 

 15s. Out of print. 



1003. MANUAL OF THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OP FIREARMS. 

 J. Deane. A good comprehensive treatise, but con- 

 taining little original matter. Longmans, London, 

 1858. 8vo, pp. ix, 292, 3 folding plates, woodcuts. 



1004. OUR ENGINES OF WAR, and how we got to make 

 them. J. W. Jervis. This is a popular account of 

 the introduction of firearms into Europe, their early 

 use in Italy, and their adoption by Great Britain, and 

 development. It is illustrated with facsimiles from 



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