An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time #262948

LL that can interest the archaeologist, the historian, the artist, the soldier, and even the ordinary Observer, on the progressive march and the successive development of the arms of various nations in the past centuries, has been con lensed in the first chapter of this book in the Abridged History of Ancient Arms, of which several extracts, more or less modified, are to be seen as headings to the sub divisions, so as to Spare the reader the trouble of looking through the whole history every time that he is desirous of information on only one point. It would have been useless to describe the historical development of each kind of arm, as these will be found in the different special chapters where these arms are described in chronologic order.