“A Part Of The Holland & Holland Collection w/ A Brief History Of The Company And Notes On Related Subjects” 1976 The Cary Collection

Holland & Holland

1976

12″ x 8.75″

[with] Gun and Rifle Catalogue, 1910.

One folio is [71] pp.
Other folio is [72] pp.

Fine

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1976 1st edition. Pair of A4 stapled paperbacks in maroon presentation folder. Pp72;71. B/w photographs & engravings, line illustrations. Slight use but very good in slightly rubbed presentation folder. This set consists of a maroon cartridge-paper folder containing a pair of A4 stapled paperbacks. HOLLAND & HOLLAND Ltd., GUN & RIFLE MANUFACTURERS, P8 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W. This has pictorial blue, green and black covers, with embossed, gilt prize medals. This is a facsimile reprint of a Holland & Holland catalogue “produced during the period 1910-1912.” Sections include; photographs of the factory and shooting grounds, gun-fitting and try guns, deluxe guns, single trigger guns, rifles (big game), high velocity rifles, Paradox guns (9 pages), rook rifles, rook rifles and plainer quality guns and rifles, guns and rifles taken in exchange. A PART OF THE HOLLAND & HOLAND COLLECTION: WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COMPANY AND NOTES ON RELATED SUBJECTS 1976. Plain white card with titles in black. Sections include; some notes on the history of the Company, The Holland & Holland Collection, company records, gun case trade labels, the Braendlin-Albini rifle, Astbury’s patent, Perkes’s patent, Col. Fosburyand the Paradox gun, Holland’s patent ejector, single trigger, belted rimless cartridge, patent self-opening mechanism, the ‘Royal’ Cartridge, big-game rifles and cartridges, shotgun barrel making, punt gunning, ‘The Field’ Rifle Trials of 1883. Interesting and useful for any collector or would-be collector.