Abbot, Henry L., Bvt. Brig. Gen

Notes on modern explosives. Read before the Essayons Club of the Corps of Engineers, June 2, 1873 ... No. XXVII. Printed papers

[Willetts Point, N.Y.]: printed on the Battalion Press, Corpl. Carmichael & Pvt. Redfield, printers, 1873. 4to, pp. [4], 1-9, [1] (i.e. 7 leaves); errata slip tipped in between the first and second leaves; original printed yellow wrappers; nibbling along the bottom edge; all else very good. There are several small ink corrections in a contemporary hand (authorial?). Hagley Museum & Library and Buffalo Historical Museum are the only copies located in OCLC where 13 titles are listed as being printed at the Battalion Press 1872-76, but by 1882 at least 50 had been published. Item #54441

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