VARIOUS.: The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry. , London: Whittaker and Co; 1909.

1st. Edn. Large 8vo. (25cm. tall x 19cm.). pp. xiv, 418. With 39 full page illustrations in black & white from portraits and historical texts. In the original gilt lettered and decorated dark blue cloth over bevelled boards. There is rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. The top corner of the front board is dampstained. Some slight damp wrinkling of the cloth. The contents are clean, sound and very good. Published under the auspices of the VIIth. International Congress of Applied Chemistry. An invaluable work on the history of explosives, detonators, percussion caps, cartridges et al. (Book ref. 3689)  £150.00

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