MODEEN GEEMAN BOOKS. 



GENERAL WORKS.-MILITARY RIFLES. 

 MUSKETRY. GUN-MAKING. SPORTING. 



1601. KRIEGSWAFFEN. Emil Capitaine and Ph. von 

 Hertling. A periodical devoted to modern military 

 armaments. The first volume illustrates a few leading 

 principles of breechloading, and was published at 

 Berlin in 1888. 8vo, pp. xii, 176 and 96, profusely 

 illustrated. The fifth volume was published in 1893 

 by M. Babenzien, Rathenow, a 4to of 262 pp. In 

 progress. 



1602. GESCHICHTE DER WAFFEN. F. U. von Specht. A 

 complete and comprehensive work on weapons generally. 

 The treatment is original, and the material has been 

 gathered with care and well selected ; the work is one 

 of the most painstaking and thorough of any 011 the 

 subject. Vol. I., Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age, 

 526 pp., 18 folding plates. II., Australasian and 

 American, 674 pp., xxiv plates. III., African, etc., 

 902 pp., xvi plates, 1877. C. Luckhardt, Cassel and 

 Leipzig, 1870, etc. 8vo, 2 vols. ; 19 parts issued. 



1603. HANDFEUER WAFFEN, ihre Entstehung, etc. Rud. 

 Schmidt. The original edition of " Armes a Feu por- 

 tatives" (q.v., No. 1504). The Atlas of 56 plates is 

 the same. B. Schwabe, Basel, 1878. 4to, 2 vols. 



1604. NEUERUNGEN im Bewaffnungswesen der Infanterie. 

 R. Schmidt. Forms a continuation of the earlier work, 

 bringing it down to 1882. 



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