THE CROSSBOW; Mediaeval and Modern | Military and Sporting. Its construction history and Managment with a treatise on The Balista and Catapult of the Ancients. 220 Illustrations.
London, NY and Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1903. First Edition. 4to, pp. 328. Bound in publisher's black cloth, binding with gold gilt lettering on spine and embossed figure with crossbow on horse in gold gilt on front cover, TEG, ex-library with two small stamps in the front, numeral on the spine, ink smudge on the lower half-title and 1 inch closed tear in the blank portion of the same page. A very good tight copy. Item #48100
Sir Ralph William Frankland-Payne-Gallwey, 3rd Baronet (1848 - 1916) was an accomplished engineer, historian, ballistics expert, and artist. He authored several books on military and sporting history, theory, and practice.
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