Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 196

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(BRITISH NAVAL WEAPONS.) [Gunnery Book]. 223 manuscript pages detailing the manufacture and implementation of explosives used in ship's cannons and other marine defense arms interspersed with approximately 50 pen-and-ink diagrams and several finished watercolor sketches on "JWhatman/1839" watermarked wove paper. 4to, 9½x8 inches, well-worn contemporary half morocco; minor foxing. England, mid-nineteenth century