Burnside Rare Books

A Course of Instruction in Rifle Firing

Laidley, Col. T.T.S.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880.

Second edition, revised. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth decorated in black with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners softened. Two previous owner bookplates to front endsheet, previous owner address to first blank, bookseller ticket to rear paste down. A lovely copy of this scarce rifle training manual, written by Theodore Thaddeus Sobieski Laidley, a Civil War veteran, serving post-war as the Colonel of Ordnance at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts. Item #140938137

Price: $750.00