digest patents relating breech loading magazine di virgil stockbridge (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 31.5 x 23 cm. 176pp. Rebound into modern brown boards with new endpapers. Index of names. 84 of the pages are illustrated with lithograph diagrams of guns, usually 10 per page. The detailed lithographs are by N. Peters of Washington. Tape repaired closed tear to title page as well as two small closed tears to the final leaf. Some chipping to the bottom right corner of the first few pages, at no point reaching text. Errata not present. Uncommon work, this is the true first edition with 1874 on title and copyright page and I cannot find the 1st in Worldcat, I could only find the facsimile reprint which was done in 1963.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 4to. 176 p. illus. 31 cm. with errata slipped in by reverse back board. 780 patent-drawings photo-lithographed (up to ten to a page) on 84 full-page illustrations by N. Peters of Washington. Quarter bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Minimal wear to extremities. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Tight binding and good cover. Contemporary gift inscription from S. W. Wood to Albert C. Hobbs, Sept. 16, 1874. Owners name below of W(illiam) W. Thomas. Clean, unmarked pages. Alfred Charles Hobbs (October 7, 1812 - November 6, 1891) was an American locksmith and inventing of the Protector lock and became one of the founders of the lock making firm of Hobbs Hart & Co. Ltd. The company started in 1851 and was formally registered as Hobbs and Co. in 1852, but by 1855 it had become Hobbs, Ashley and Company. The name then changed to Hobbs, Ashley and Fortescue. In 1860 Hobbs returned to America and lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and went on to hold a dozen patents for firearm ammunition manufacturing. In 1880 he listed himself as a "Superintendent Of Cartridge Factory." William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (August 26, 1839 - October 7, 1927) was a United States politician from Maine, consul to Sweden and American Minister to Sweden and Norway in three separate terms: 1883-1885, 1889-1894 and 1898-1905.