General Works. Military Rifles, etc. 149 



1605. NEUERUNGEN, etc. R. Schmidt. A supplement 

 continuing the work to 1885. 



1606. ALLGEMEINE WAFFENKUNDE DER INFANTERIE. R. 

 Schmidt. A treatise on modern military small arms. 

 Volume of text and atlas of 23 engraved plates with 

 400 illustrations. B. Schwabe, Basel, 1888. 25 marks. 



1607. GESCHICHTLICHE ENTWICKELUNG DER HANDFEUER 

 WAFFEN. M. Thierbach. An elaborate treatise on the 

 development of the infantry rifle, the early portion 

 chiefly from German sources. The first portion deals 

 chiefly with the lock mechanism, the third wholly with 

 breechloaders. 0. Hockner, Dresden, 1888. Long 

 4to, 538 pp., 34 double-page coloured litho. plates, 

 comprising 111 separate illustrations. 



1608. RUCKLADUNGSGEWEHRE. Mattenheimer. Fragments 

 of a history of breechloaders and their development. 

 Seidel, Vienna, 1876. 102 coloured plates. 9 florins. 

 A supplement, " Neue Folge," sheets 103-11, 1890. 1 

 florin 68 kreuzers. 



1609. HINTERLADERGEWEHRE. F. Hentsch. A series of 

 monographs on the small arms in use in the various 

 European armies. No. 2, for instance, treats of the 

 history of the breechloader in the Dutch army. Fr. 

 Luckhardt, Leipzig, 1873. 8vo, 55 pp. and 5 

 lithographed plates. Sweden, Norway and Denmark 

 are treated in another volume of 143 pp. and 6 

 plates, published in 1879 j French arms in another 

 published in the same year, 173 pp., 7 plates. The 

 work is now to some extent superseded by the periodical 

 Kriegswaffen, of which one volume appears annually. 

 See No. 1601. 



1610. BESCHREIBUNG. A description of the French 1886 

 model gun. Seidel, Wien, 1888. 24 kreuzers. 



1611. REPETIR-GEWEHRE. A text-book of the 1888 model, 

 with lithographed plate, 1888. 



