Description and condition: Black boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, pp xxi 328 23, index, b/w illustrations. Very good with light foxing to outer edges, owners signature on FPEP, else nice clean pages. In good dustcover with lightly sunned spine and a tiny closed tear, now protected. Contents: The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern: Military and Sporting: Its Construction, History & Management. With a treatise on the balista and catapult of the ancients and an appendix on the catapult, balista and the Turkish bow. Contents: The history of the crossbow, with notes comparative on the longbow, shortbow and handgun. The construction and management of crossbows: Mediaeval. The construction and management of crossbows (continued): Modern. A treatise on the siege engines used in ancient and Mediaeval times for discharging great stones and arrows. |
