Author: JACQUES, WILLIAM H.
Title: Ericsson's Destroyer and Submarine Gun. Being a consideration of their application to naval warfare, the advantages of the system, together with a short history of submarine artillery
Description: New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1885. Paperback. 48 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Fair, Spine strengthened with tape holding the covers together, some loss to cover, backcover split from spine for about half the length. Some stamps on cover and some pages. Waterstain in margin, fading towards the end. With eight illustrations: seven pagesize and one in the text. Illustrations do include a cross section of the ship Monitor, ammunition and its weapon. Rare book, elsewhere only with six plates, this copy with seven plates (frontispiece plus six numbered plates) plus one small illustration in the text. With erata slip.

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