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A treatise on gun-powder : a treatise on fire-arms : and a treatise on the service of artillery in time of war / translated from the Italian of Alessandro Vittorio Papacino D'Antoni, Major General in the Sardinian Army, and Chief Director of the Royal Military Academies of Artillery and Fortification at Turin, by Captain Thomson, of The Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection UF144 .P313 1789
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papacino d'Antoni, Alessandro Vittorio, 1714-1786, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 1789
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Artillery--Early works to 1800.
- Artillery.
- Gunpowder--Early works to 1800.
- Gunpowder.
- Firearms--Early works to 1800.
- Firearms.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Royal Military College (bookplate) (Smith copy)
- Great Britain. H.M. Stationery Office (stamp) (Smith copy)
- Cottesloe, Lord, 1862-1956 (former owner) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- xl, 374, [2] pages, [24] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- orom leas omF. ceIn (3) 1789 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sold by T. and J. Egerton, at the Military Library, Whitehall, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
- Notes:
- Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ A-Z⁸ 2A⁴.
- Engraved plates numbered in 3 series: Plate 1st-Plate 9th, Plate 1st-Plate 6th, Plate 1st-Plate 9th.
- Woodcut tail-piece.
- "With a half-title and a final errata leaf."--ESTC.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy imperfect: half-title (leaf a1) wanting.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Smith copy has a few manuscript marginal marks in ink or pencil in text.
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Forest Books.
- Smith copy has armorial bookplate ("Royal Military College.") on front pastedown; manuscript shelf-mark ("E.4") and note ("Collated") in pencil on front pastedown; oval stamp ("SOLD BY H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE") on title leaf.
- Smith copy formerly owned by Thomas Francis Fremantle, Colonel Lord Cottesloe (1862-1956).
- Cited in:
- ESTC T117826
- OCLC:
- 4231310
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