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• Man and his tools (McGraw-Hill, 1956), by William A. Burns (page images at HathiTrust)

• The cutlery trades : an historical essay in the economics of small-scale production (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by G. I. H. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La coutellerie depuis l'origine jusqu'à nos jours, la fabrication ancienne & moderne (Impr. H. Rivière, 1896), by Camille Pagé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice sur les couteliers à Langres au moyen âge. (J. Dallet, 1870), by Adrien Durand (page images at HathiTrust)
• La coutellerie depuis l'origine jusqu'à nos jours, la fabrication ancienne & moderne (Impr. H. Rivière, 1896), by Camille Pagé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mémoires critiques et historiques sur plusieurs points d'antiquités militaires (P. E. G. Durand Neveu; [etc., etc.], 1774), by Karl Gottlieb Guischardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to military history. (The Century co., 1929), by Robert Greenhalgh Albion (page images at HathiTrust)
• A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries,. (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1920), by Guy Francis Laking, Francis Henry Cripps-Day, and Charles Alexander Cosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wien's Kaiserliches zeughaus, zum ersten male aus historisch-kritischem gesichtspunkte betrachtet (Leipzig, K. F. Koehler; [etc., etc.], 1846), by Friedrich Otto Leber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kriegswaffen in ihren geschichtlichen Entwickelungen von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart : eine Encyklopädie der Waffenkunde (P. Friesehahn, 1893), by Augustec Demmin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of weaponry. (Hawthorn Books, 1963), by Courtlandt Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Waffenkunde : das Waffenwesen in seiner historischen Entwickelung vom Beginn des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (E.A. Seemann, 1890), by Wendelin Boeheim and Harold L. Peterson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vni͡eshnīĭ bytʹ narodov s drevni͡eĭshikh do nashikh vremen (Izdatel'stvo Ivana Limbaha, 1870), by Hermann Weiss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vapnens historia (Sveriges skyttetidning, 1927), by Josef Alm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Attack, Art of (W. Holmes, ltd., Printers, 1906), by H. S. Cowper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Magyar hadtörténelmi emlékek; az ezredéves országos kiállitáson, a hadtörtenelmi csoportbizottság megbizásábol (Franklin-Társulat], 1896), by János Szendrei and Hungary. Kereskedelmi Minisztérium (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kriegswaffen in ihren geschichtlichen Entwickelungen von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart. Eine Encyklopädie der Waffenkunde. (P. Friesenhahn, 1893), by Auguste Demmin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La chirobaliste (A. Lainé et J. Havard, 1866), by Hero of Alexandria and A. J. H. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide des amateurs d'armes et armures anciennes par ordre chronologique depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours (Librairie de Ve J. Renouard, 1869), by Auguste Demmin and Harold L. Peterson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Den tidlige middelalders vaaben, omtrent 450-1050. (Kjöbenhavn, 1861), by Otto Blom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Rittersaal : eine Geschichte des Rittertums, seines Entstehens und Fortganges, seiner Gebräuche und Sitten (Melchior-Verl., 2009), by Friedrich Martin Reibisch and F. Kottenkamp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on ancient armour and weapons, illustrated by plates taken from the original armour in the Tower of London, and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets. (Printed for S. Hooper, 1785), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armour & weapons in the middle ages (Harrap, 1925), by Charles Henry Ashdown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century (Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912), by Charles John Ffoulkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Armaria. (LImpresa Horas Romanticas, 1885), by David Corazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arms fabricators, ancient and modern : a compilation of the names and dates of gunsmiths, bladesmiths, armourers, bowyers and cannoniers offered with such pertinent data upon their lives and activities as is discoverable together with three hundred sixty-eight identified poincons (R.G. Adams, 1936), by Robert Edward Gardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century, by Charles John Ffoulkes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Weapons, a pictorial history (World Pub. Co., 1954), by Edwin Tunis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weapons, a pictorial history (World Pub. Co., 1954), by Edwin Tunis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der Rittersaal : eine Geschichte des Rittertums, seines Entstehens und Fortganges, seiner Gebräuche und Sitten (Melchior-Verl., 2009), by Friedrich Martin Reibisch and F. Kottenkamp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Short illustrated history of cannon, emphasizing types used in America (Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior :, 2003), by Albert C. Manucy and United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern weapons of war. (Contemporary Club, 1905), by John Taliafero Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Krigsväsendets tekniska utveckling under det nittonde århundradet. (P.A. Norstedt & söners förlag, 1921), by Hugo Jungstedt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of innovation : United States Army adaptation in war and peace. (Center of Military History, U.S. Army :, 2009), by Jon T. Hoffman and Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire du canon dans les armées modernes. Précédée de sa biographie, par un vieil ami de la liberté, son collèque à l'Assemblée nationale, et suivie d'une notice sur tous les membres aujourd'hui vivants de la famille Bonaparte. (Martinon, 1848), by Napoleon III (page images at HathiTrust)
• A armaria em Portugal. Memoria apresentada à Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa. (Por ordem e na Typographia da academia, 1907), by Sousa Viterbo and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Handfeuerwaffen; ihre Entstehung und technischhistorische Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart. (B. Schwabe, 1875), by Rudolf Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Russian armor and artillery design practices (Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 1996), by United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (page images at HathiTrust)

• A method for concentrating the fire of a broadside of a ship of war : with an appendix, containing several subjects connected with the naval service (John Bradley, 1837), by William Kennish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins of the Navy rocket program and of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern (Naval History Division :, 1971), by Albert B. Christman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Evolution of Naval Armament, by Frederick Leslie Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Fuller letters, 1728-1755 : guns, slaves, and finance (Sussex Record Society, 1991), by Richard Saville and David W. Crossley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Military antiquities respecting a history of the English Army, from the conquest to the present time. (S. Hooper, 1786), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch über Gebräuche, Kleidung und Waffen der ältesten Völker bis auf Constantin den Grossen : nebst einigen Anmerkungen über die Schaubühne (Auf kosten des Verfassers, und in commission der Commerzienrath Seidelischen Buchhandlung, 1802), by Johann Christian von Mannlich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient armour and weapons in Europe: from the iron period of the northern nations to the end of the seventeenth century: with illustrations from contemporary monuments. (J. Henry and J. Parker, 1855), by John Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient armour and weapons in Europe : from the iron period of the northern nations to the end of the seventeenth century : with illustrations from contemporary monuments (J. Henry and J. Parker, 1860), by John Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Den tidlige middelalders vaaben, omtrent 450-1050. (Kjöbenhavn, 1861), by Otto Blom (page images at HathiTrust)

• Highland Targets and Other Shields, by James Drummond (Gutenberg ebook)

• Arms and Armor of the Pilgrims, 1620-1692, by Harold L. Peterson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Woodworking Tools 1600-1900, by Peter C. Welsh (Gutenberg ebook)

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