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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf facsimile reprint edition of the third, London: 1780 edition of this eighteenth-century British treatise on the construction of guns, their measurements and capabilities, movement, ammunition, stores, and use aboard ships. This edition included special material on the use of gunpowder. Includes all the original detailed illustrations and reference material. 216 pages, softcover.