An essay on shooting containing the various methods of forging, boring and dressing gun barrels, practised in France, Spain, and England, and the different Proofs of Barrels employed in those Countries; with Remarks-An Investigation of the Causes of Recoil, and of Bursting; with Proposals for preventing or remedying Them-An Inquiry into the Effects of the Length, Bore, and Charge, upon the Range, &c. of the Piece-Remarks on the Properties and Action of Gunpowder, and upon the Articles of Shot, Wadding, &c. &c. - Instructions for attaining the Art of Shooting-The Methods of training Pointers-And a short Description of the Game of this Country, as connected with the Amusement of Shooting. The whole interspersed with summary Observations on the various Subjects of the Sport
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand
1791, MDCCXCI. [1791]
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| Edition: | The second edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | Adapted and translated by John Acton?. - Anonymous. By Gervais François Magné de Marolles. - English Short Title Catalog, T64643. - In two parts. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With a half-title |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxix,[3],313,[1]p) 8° |