Mattenheimer, A. The return rifles. Fragments of her genesis and developmental history in lithographic and colored leaves. (Contribution to the Handgun Teaching). According to the original weapons, photographs and original drawings. 3 Bll. With 92 (1 folded, mostly coloured) lithographic plates. 21 x 33 cm. OLeindwand (breath and inflate, capitals with cracks and Rdeckel with bigger kink) with gold-embossed DTitle. Darmstadt and Leipzig, E. Zernin, 1869. Between 1866 and 1869 appeared in 5 deliveries; without the supplement of 1875, which contains another 10 plates. Comprehensive representation of the return loaders since c. 1480 with emphasis on the early 19th century. In the 19th century, among them rifles according to the systems Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse (4 Taf.), Philo Remington (2 Taf) and Samuel Colt (2 Taff.), Henry and Henry-Winchester (3 Tafs), Spencer (3 Taffs), Ludwig Werder (5 Taf).Extremely detailed representations of many technical details with extensive explanations (this in lithographic manuscript). A. Mattenheimer was captain in k. b. 14. Infantry Regiment. – Title with possession stamp "Bücherei des Archivs für Waffen und Uniformkunde". Edges slightly tanned, partly finger stained.