Military commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856 : Report of Major Alfred Mordecai, of the Ordnance Department.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887.
• Schön, Julius, 1816-
• Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883.
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• United States. Congress 1859-1860). Senate. (36th, 1st session : Executive document ; no. 60.
• 36th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Ex. doc. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Military art and science.
• Artillery.
• Firearms.

Penn Provenance:

• Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copies 1 & 2)
• Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copies 1 & 2)
• Bass, Perkins (bookplate) (Kaplan Collection copy 1)
• Virginia State Library (stamp) (Kaplan Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

vii, 232 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington : G. W. Bowman, Printer, 1860.

Notes:

• "Rifled infantry arms. A brief description of the modern system of small arms, as adopted in the various European armies. By J. Schön, captain in the Royal Saxon infantry ... 2d ed., revised and augmented. With explanatory plates. Dresden: 1855. Translated from the German by J. Gorgas, Captain of Ordnance, United States Army": p. [177]-232.
• [21] leaves of plates (2 fold.) after p. 176. 13 folded leaves of plates after p. 232.

Local Notes:

• Kaplan Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
• Kaplan Collection copy 1 is collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00821; Kaplan Collection copy 2 is collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00819

Contains:

Rifled infantry arms.

OCLC:

2723332