Captured War Materiel - Rifles and Carbines

S.i., n.d. [ca 1918]. No author or imprint; dated from text. Oblong octavo (6" x 10"). Gilt-titled blue cloth; [22pp] text; 8 inserted photographic plates. Occasional hand-corrections to text. Text has been reproduced from typescript, cut and pasted onto leaves.

"This book contains photographs of 23 rifles and carbines. The selection is designed to show the regulation weapons of England, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Roumania, Japan, Austria and Germany...there is also shown three single-loading rifles of 50 years ago, which were used in the struggle...2 automatic rifles are pictured, which are considered steps toward the rifle of the future...the list showing the varieties of arms captured is made from the personal observation of the writer from the collections at Springfield Armory and Fort Newark Army Base" (from the first page of text). Apparently unrecorded.