Pistols of the World by Claude Blair

Pistols of the World by Claude Blair

23x31cm, Hardcover with Dust Cover, 206 pages. Book in very good condition.

From the earliest employment of the Pistol in the sixteenth century to the introduction of the first successful automatics is a period of some 3 and a half centuries. It is these that are surveyed by Claude Blair in a work which is as exhaustive as it is scholarly.

The photographic illustrations are an essential feature of this book, More than 800 in number, and supplemented by over 100 line illustrations.

For the collector, dealer and museum official the book at once establishes as an essential acquisition.

Some of the chapter headings:

The Single-shot Muzzle-loading Pistol; The Single-shot Breech-loading Pistol; Repeating and Volley Pistols; Revolvers; Air & Gas Pistol; Eastern Pistol; Combined Pistol; Accessories; Making of Firearms; Decoration of Pistol.

Each section is expanded with a degree of mechanical and historic detail.