USED THE TREASURY OF THE GUN

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“The Treasury of the Gun” by Harold L. Peterson. Hardcover.

Harold L. Peterson is a historian, collector, and American authority on arms and armor.  His brilliant and meticulous text has been authenticated by three of Europe’s foremost arms specialists.  The book is graced with prints and drawings fathered from the major arms museums and private collections here and abroad.  This consummate blend of words and pictures ranges over the turbulent life of every important gun that man’s imagination has devised for his arsenal – matchlocks, wheel locks, flintlocks, breechloaders, repeaters, magazine arms.

The book begins with Friar Bacon’s experiment with the substance we now call gunpowder, ends at the doorstep of the modern era with magazine arms establizhed.

Features:

• 249 pages total
• hardcover