Oriental Armour (Arms and Armour series)

Author(s): Robinson, H[enry] Russell

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket Protection:	Brodart-style sleeve
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Herbert Jenkins
Publication Year:	1967
Publication Place:	London, UK
ISBN:	9780257656779
Book ID:	010151
Catalogue(s):	War, Military History and Weapons

First edition, first printing. xii, 258pp. Black and white plate illustrations and line drawings etc in etc. Ex lending library, with usual library markings. In brown cloth boards (cloth a little faded on exposed edges, text block edges slightly soiled). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring library markings. In its original dust jacket, slightly soiled and a little bumped at spine tips, protected in a Bordart-style sleeve (sleeve is creased around inner front flap of dust jacket). 8vo. A survey of the development of military equipment in the principal countries of the Orient, with particular emphasis on the origins of their fashions and their influence over the armour of other countries, from ancient times to the point at which it fell out of use which, in some cases, was less than 150 years ago.

Keywords:

Weapons Military equipment armour Oriental Weaponry Arms