Vintage Rare Books on disk DVD in PDF format

 

~ Gunsmith ~ Firearms

The Most Complete Rare Vintage Book Library Available 

215 Books & Magazines

 

Deluxe Edition on

USB Flash Drive

 

 

 
 
Not just the best for quantity but also quality -
no "surplus" books added that are not relevant or in foreign languages
 
 

 

Easily Searchable

 

 

 

 

N.B there is NO BOX or physical books included in the purchase - you will receive a USB flash drive containing the books in PDF format for use on your Computer.

 
 
 
 

The colour and style of the USB drive may vary from the picture, we will send whatever drive we currently have available, a particular colour or style cannot be pre-selected.

 

 

 

On The Drive

This unique drive is an opportunity to own these rare and collectible vintage books before they disappear forever. Some of the books are already unavailable and but for being scanned into digital format would never be seen again.

Each page has been scanned in as a faithful reproduction of the original. This is a chance to be able to see books that would otherwise be lost to future generations.

The drive contains rare out-of-print books relating to - Guns, Firearms & Gunsmithing. Each book is individually named on the drive and thus is easily searchable by title, and each book is individually searchable itself.

Be Aware - that other sellers may pad out their collection of books with foreign language titles or books that are not relevant to the topic. Compare items and you will see the quality and effort that goes into our disks. Other sellers also put security lock on the books which requires a password (which they wont give you) so it is restricted as to what you can do with the books - all our books are completely unrestricted. In addition all our books are fully named exactly as you see in the list below making them easy to find and easily searchable - other sellers may simply supply you a disk with books named randomly making it virtually impossible to find the book you want.

IMPORTANT: These books come supplied on a USB Flash Drive - note that this is not a USB drive that will that will "play" on a home DVD player or TV, it contains no video whatsoever. It is a Data Drive and must be used on a Computer to view the PDF book files 

 

 

 

215 Volumes on the USB Drive

A basic manual of military small arms - W Smith 1943
A bibliography of guns and shooting - W Gerrare 1895
A British Rifle Man - George Simmons 1899
A companion to the new rifle musket - S Bertram Browne 1859
A companion to the new rifle musket 1855
A musketry catechism for the use of both services and rifle clubs - Richard George Coles 1861
A new chapter in an old story - Remington Arms 1912
A system of target practice. For the use of troops when armed with the musket, rifle-musket, rifle, or carbine - United States. War Dept 1862
A Treatise on Gun-powder ; A Treatise on Fire-arms 1789
A treatise on ordnance and armor - A Holley 1865
Advanced Gunsmithing - W F Vickery 1940
AK-47 Assault Rifle, Operator's Manual
Allgemeine Geschichte der Handfeuerwaffen 'A general history of firearms'- Guenther, Reinhold 1909 [GERMAN]
American duck shooting - Grinnell, G 1901
American game bird shooting - Murphy, 1882
American gun makers including Supplement of AMerican gun makers - Satterlee, Leroy 1953
American inventions and improvements in breech-loading small arms - C Norton 1880
American small arms; a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge for sportsmen and military men - Farrow, E 1904
American wild-fowl shooting - Long, J 1879
An Illustrated Treatise on the Art of Shooting - Charles Lancaster 1906
An Outline of the History and Development of Hand Firearms, from the ... - Robert Coltman Clephan 1906
Army Operator's Manual (for M16 rifle) - TM 9-1005-249-10
Army rifles; a paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, February 5, 1908
Army Technical Manual (for M16 rifle) - TM9-1005-249-23P
Automatic pistol shooting, together with information on handling the duelling pistol and revolver - Winans, W 1915
Automatic shotgun - United States. Congress. House 1906
Barreta M9 9mm TM 9-1005-317-10
Battle fire training - Turner, G 1917
Big game shooting - Phillipps-Wolley, C 1894
Big Game Shooting Records - Barclay,E 1932
Breech loading fire arms and ammunition - Sharps rifle company 1879
Browning .50 Machine Gun Operators Manual (TM 9-1005-213-10)
Chemistry and Technology of Explosives - Volume I - Tadeusz Urbanski 1964
Chemistry and Technology of Explosives - Volume II - Tadeusz Urbanski 1965
Chemistry and Technology of Explosives - Volume III - Tadeusz Urbanski 1967
Chemistry and Technology of Explosives - Volume IV - Tadeusz Urbanski 1964
Civil War Guns
Class book for the School of Musketry, Hythe; prepared for the use of officers - Wilford, E 1861
Combined infantry and cavalry drill regulations for automatic machine rifle, caliber .30, model of 1909 - U.S. War Dept 1917
Complete Guide to Handloading - P B Sharpe - 1937
Compound guns, many-barrelled rifle batteries, machine guns or mitrailleurs - John Fletcher Owen 1874
Counter Sniper Guide - U.S. Army marmanship Training Unit
Crocodile shooting - Ducie, H 1800
Deanes' manual of the history and science of fire-arms .. - Deane, John 1858
Deep hole drilling 1910
Description and rules for the management of the U.S. rifle, caliber .30, model of 1903 ... March 3, 1904 - United States. Army 1917
Description of telescopic musket sights, models of 1908 and 1913 ... Dec. 14, 1908 (1917) 2
Description of telescopic musket sights, models of 1908 and 1913 ... Dec. 14, 1908 (1917)
Description of the Colt's double-action revolver, caliber .45, model of 1909 - 1917
Drill regulations for machine-gun platoons, infantry, United States army - U.S. War Dept 1909
Elements of elastic strength of guns a text book for the use of student officers of the U.S. Artillery School - Story, John P 1894
Employment of machine guns - Short, W 1922
Experts on Guns and Shooting - George Buckell 1900
Explosives; a synoptic and critical treatment of the literature of the subject - h Brunswig 1912
Field Manual FM 23-35 Combat Training With Pistols & Revolvers - U.S. Department of the Army
Field Manual FM 23-35 Combat Training with Pistols, M9 and M11 - U.S. Department of the Army
Field Manual FM 23-36 Revolver, Colt, Caliber .45, M1917 and Revolver, Smith and Wesson, Caliber .45, M1917 - U.S.. War Department 1941
Fifty years with the gun and rod, including tables showing the velocity, distance, penetration or effect of shot, calculated by Leonard Case 1880
Firearms in American history Vol I - Sawyer, C 1910
Firearms in American history Vol III - Sawyer, C 1920
Fishing and Shooting Sketches - Cleveland, G 1906
Florida and the game water-birds..., and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns - Roosevelt, R 1884
FM 21-5 Basic Field Manual, Military Training (July 16, 1941) - U.S. War Dept.
FM 23-20 Browning Automatic Rifle, Caliber .30 M1918A2, Without Bipod - U.S. War Dept 1940
FM 23-45 Basic Field Manual Browning Machine Gun, Caliber .30- U.S. War Department 1940
French-English Dictionary of Machine Gun Terms - Harry James Malony 1918
German Lightarms - Herbert Hillary Booker 1945
Gun making in the United States - Birnie, R 1907
Gunline Tools Checkering Tools - Craft Industries 1955
Gunnery in 1858 being a treatise on rifles, cannon, and sporting arms; - Greener, W 1858
Guns and gunning - Curtis, P 1908
Guns, ammunition, and tackle - Money, A 1904
Handbook of the 2.95-inch mountain gun mateeriel and pack outfit .. - United States. Army 1916
Handbook of the 3.8-inch howitzer materiel, model of 1915  with instructions for its care - U.S. Army 1916
Handbook of the 4.7-inch gun materiel, model of 1906 with instructions for its care, November 19, 1910 - U.S.. Army 1917
Handloaders Manual -E Naramore  1943
Hatcher's NoteBook 1947
Hints on revolver shooting - Winaus, Walter 1904
Hints on the use and handling of firearms generally, and the revolver in particular - Curling, H.O 1885
Hints to riflemen - Cleveland, H. W. S 1864
History of the Confederate powder works - Rains, G 1882
Home workshop mini14 silencers
How I became a crack shot, with hints to beginners - Farrow, W. Milton 1882
How to shoot - Wingate, George Wood, 1907
How to shoot (including Care and preservation of the rifle) - Moss, James 1917
How to Shoot the U.S. Army Rifle - Infantry Journal 1943
How_To_Select_Reloading_Equipment - C.H. Die Company 1955
Illustrated catalogue of United States Cartridge Company's collection of firearms the most complete collection in the United States 1906
Illustrated musketry vade mecum - Richard George Coles 1865
Instruction of musketry - War office 1855
Instructional notes on the Vickers gun 1918
Instructions in learning accurate pistol shooting - Thomas, J 1922
Instructions in pistol marksmanship, 1924 - Thomas, J
Instructions to Young Sportsmen In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting - Peter Hawker 1859
Internatioanl Rifle Markmanship Guide
Letters to young sportsmen on hunting, angling and shooting - Mackillop, J 1920
Liberator Pistol Blueprints - inland - 1942
Long-range rifle shooting 1877
Machine Gun Fire Control - Glenn Perrin Wilhelm 1917
Machine Gun Notes No. 1 - United States. Army War College 1917
Machine Guns - Julian Sommerville Hatcher 1917
Machine Guns and Machine Gunnery - US Marin Corps
Mannlichers Selbstlade Karabiner und Karabiner Pistole - 1902 [GERMAN]
Manufacture of artillery ammunition - Alford, Leon Pratt 1917
Marksmanship Individual Score Book For The Rifle - United States. War Department 1922
Military handbook of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle 1938
Modern American pistols and revolvers. An account of the development of pistols and revolvers in America; - Gould, Arthur 1888
Modern American rifles - Gould, Arthur 1892
Modern guns and smokeless powder - Rigg, Arthur 1892
Modern shot guns - Greener, William 1891
Musketry - United States. War Dept 1917
Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges) elementary training, visual training judging distance, fire discipline, range practices field practices - Solano, E 1915
Musketry regulations (Volume 2) - Great Britain. War Office 1910
Nitrocellulose industry; a compendium of the history, chemistry, manufacture, commercial application and analysis Vol I - E Worden 1911
Nitrocellulose industry; a compendium of the history, chemistry, manufacture, commercial application and analysis Vol II - E Worden 1911
Nitro-explosives; a practical treatise concerning the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances - P Sanford 1906
Notes on rifle range coaching taken principally from lectures delivered at the Rifle Range, Quantico, Va. - Fisher, Morris 1933
Observations on the past and present state of fire-arms ... - Francis Rawdon Chesney 1852
On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-breech Fire-arms and ... - Samuel Colt 1855
Operator's Manual For M60, M122, M60D - United States goverment
Our Rifles.- C W Sawyer 1944pdf
Pistol and Revolver Shooting - Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright 1916
Pistol Marksmanship Training Guide - U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit
Practical rifle shooting - Winans, Walter 1906
Price list of Great Western Gun Works - Johnston, J. H 1872
Provisional Machine-gun Firing Manual - United States War Dept 1917
R.C.B.S2 Shell Holders and case Gauge Chart
Rare antique and modern pistols, revolvers, guns, swords, crossbows and edged weapons, American and foreign collected by George Leary, Jr 1923
Rebuild Standards for Small Arms Material - Dept of the Army 1953
Remington 121 Slide Action Repeating Rifle
Remington 141
Remington 572 Pump Action rifle 22 Caliber Owner's Manual
Remington 788 Bolt Action Rifles Owner's Manual
Remington 1148
Report of the Board for Examination of Breech-Loading Military Small Arms  State of New York - 1867
Reports of experiments with small arms for the military service - United States. Army 1856
Rifle and musketry exercises for the Ross rifle - Canada. Dept. of Militia and Defence 1914
Rifle training for war - Brookhart, Smith 1919
Rifles and rifle shooting - Charles Askins 1919
Rifles and shotguns the art of rifle and shotgun shooting ... - Miller, Warren H 1917
Rules for the management and cleaning of the rifle musket, model 1863 - U.S. War Dept 1863
Rules for the management and cleaning of the rifle musket, model 1863, for the use of soldiers  - United States. War Dept 1863
Shooting - Shand, Alexander Innes 1902
Shooting (Volume 1) - Baron Thomas de Grey Walsingham 1887
Shooting (Volume 2) - Baron Thomas de Grey Walsingham 1893
Shooting field and covert - Baron Thomas de Grey Walsingham 1887
Shooting its appliances; practice; and purpose - James Dalziel Dougall 1875
Shooting notes and comments. A book containing matters of interest to sportsmen 1910
Shooting simplified a concise treatise on guns and shooting - Dougall, James Dalziel 1865
Shooting, for boys - Collins, A. Frederick 1917
Simeon North, first official pistol maker of the United States; a memoir - North, S 1913
Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gunpowder at the Ishapore mills in Bengal - W Anderson 1862
Small arms instructors manual  an intensive course - R Sayre 1918
Smokeless Powder and Its Influence on Gun Construction - James Atkinson Longridge 1890
Smokeless powder, nitro-cellulose, and theory of the cellulose molecule - Bernadou, John 1901
Sniping in France with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers - Prichard, H 1920
Soldier's handbook of the rifle and score book for special course C  arranged for the U.S. rifle, model of 1917 - U.S. War Dept. 1918
Sporting firearms - Kephart, Horace 1912
Sporting Fire-arms for Bush and Jungle - F Burgess 1884
Sporting Rifles and Rifle Shooting - John Caswell 1920
Stabilization of smokeless powder. - Prager, Morton Alva 1946
Stray military papers - Hime, H 1897
Suggestions to Military Riflemen - Townsend Whelen 1909
Target Practice and Remount Systems Abroad (Volume no. 35) - E. A. Edwards 1902
Target range pocket book for use with the U.S. magazine rifle, model of 1903, cal. .30 .. 1908 - U.S. Army 1917
Technical training handbook of the Browning automatic rifle model of 1918 (air cooled) - Infantry School 1918
The Amateur Gun Craftsman - J Howe
The American rifle  a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle - Whelen, T 1918
The American Shotgun - C Askins 1910
The Analysis of Black Powder and Dynamite - Walter Otheman Snelling 1913
The art of revolver shooting - Winans, Walter 1911
The art of shooting - Damon, C 1892
The Art of Wing Shooting A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shot-gun - William Bruce Leffingwell 1895
The Book of Rifles - W Smith 1948
The book of the machine gun - Longstaff, F 1917
The book of the rifle - Fremantle, T 1901
The breech-loader, and how to use it  with notes on rifles - Greener, W.W 1898
The Care and Cleaning of Modern Firearms - Whelen, Townsend 1921
The crack shot; or, Young rifleman's complete guide - E Barber 1868
The Dead Shot Or, Sportman's Complete Guide  Being a Treatise on the Use of the Gun - Marksman 1863
The elastic strength of guns - Alger, Philip R 1906
The evolution of modern small arms and ammunition - Edward C R Marks 1898
The gun and its development - Greener, W 1910
The gun book for boys and men - McKee, Thomas Heron 1918
The Gun Or, A Treatise on the Various Descriptions of Small Fire-arms - William Greener 1835
The gun; afield & afloat - Sharp, Henry 1904
The Guns of Europe - Altsheler, Joseph 1915
The Machine Gun Vol 1 -  George M. Chinn 1951
The Machine Gun Vol 2 -  George M. Chinn 1951
The Machine Gun Vol 3 -  George M. Chinn 1951
The Machine Gun Vol 4 -  George M. Chinn 1951
The Machine Gun Vol 5 -  George M. Chinn 1951
The making of arms and ammunition in the Confederacy 192-
The Modern Gunsmith Volume 1 - Howe  1941
The Modern Gunsmith Volume 2 - Howe  1941
The modern pistol and how to shoot it - Winans, Walter 1919
The modern shooter - Lacy, Captain 1842
The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle -  J Walsh 1882
The pistol and revolver - Himmelwright, Abraham 1908
The relaxing trigger - Baldwin, Murray 1920
The rifle and how to use it. Comprising a description of that valuable weapon in all its varieties - Busk, H 1861
The shot-gun and sporting rifle - J walsh 1859
The sporting rifle; the shooting of big and little game - Winans, W 1908
The Story of the Guns - J Tennent 1864
The theory of musketry - John Clark Kennedy 1855
The volunteer's hand book...Infantry tactics, adapted to the use of the percussion musket in squad and company exercises, manual of arms for riflemen -J Lee 1861
Theory and design of recoil systems and gun carriages - United States. Army 1921
TM 9-206 Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .30, M1919A6 - United States. War Department 1943
TM 9-280 Caliber .22 Rifles, All Types - United States. War Department 1944
TM 9-1005-208-35 Rifle Caliber .30 Automatic Browning M1918A2 1964
TM 9-1215 Ordnance Maintenance Thompson Submachine Gun cal .45, M1928A1 - United States. War Department 1942
TM 9-1300-204 Ammunition for Recoilless Rifles - United States. Department of the Army 1959
TM 9-1900 Ammunition, General (June 18, 1945)
TNT-Tri Mono and Di Nitrotoluenes their Manufacture and Properties - G C Smith 1918
Twenty-three Years Practice and Observations with Rifle Guns - Ezekiel Baker 1804
United States Marine Corps rifle and pistol marksmanship training, 1935 (1936)
United States rifles and machine guns  a detailed account of the methods used in manufacturing - Colvin, Fred  1913
US Navy SEAL Sniper Training Program
Weapons and musketry - Marine Corps Schools (U.S.) 1933

 

The Nature of Scanned Books

You will get a copy of each of the scanned books in PDF format. The PDF will be a replica of the book in exactly the condition it was available to us - so that will necessarily mean that the book will have inevitable signs of ageing. Some of the books in our collection are over 400 years old - it is not possible to maintain a book in pristine condition for that length of time. In addition any marks made by the previous owners will also be present. We do not consider that to be  a flaw of the product but rather adds to its authenticity.

Searchable - Each file is fully named on the drive so it is easy to search and find a particular title. In addition  each book is searchable and individual sections or pages  can easily be printed.

Viewing - The books will require suitable PDF software to view them, almost certainly you will already have this on your computer or device - if not such software is universally available for Free download.

Sizing - Page size can be adjusted to suit your needs for viewing text or images.

Printing - A complete book is printable, or individual sections or just individual pages too.

Images - All images can be printed out and used as you wish.

 

About the Drive

 

The drive is not suitable for use on a home DVD player connected to your TV or audio device. The drive contains PDF files (these are electronic books) which can be viewed on your computer. You can easily convert the PDF files to a similar format suitable for viewing on your Tablet, mobile phone, Kindle, eBook reader or other device using the totally free software called Calibre.

Please Note - Physical books are not included in this purchase; all books are scans of the original books in PDF digital format only. You will receive your USB drive only - there is no box included. The cost of a box plus associated increase in postage and packaging would mean the price of the item would need to at least double and we find that our customers do not value a box but rather they value the contents of our drives

 

Shipping

 

All items are shipped from the UK. We despatch within one business day of receiving the order, please note that whilst we can despatch purchases quickly we cannot control the delivery time it takes to reach you.

For UK deliveries the standard service is second class post shipped in secure packaging.

For non-UK deliveries; the standard posting method is Airmail. Please be aware that Airmail delivery times can vary greatly even within the same country, there is not a standard time and please do not expect your item to arrive within a few days - it simply will not happen.

The "Anticipated Delivery" date is given by eBay , not us, and quite frankly should be totally ignored because it is not a true reflection of the reality. There is an option to have tracked international shipping (it is an option in the postage section of the listing) - tracked delivery is far more secure, it can often be quicker but is relatively expensive; we charge just for the cost of the service plus our additional time in organising it; it is entirely optional whether you make use of that service or not.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

 

We feel certain you will be delighted with your purchase. If however for any reason you have cause for concern then please contact us. We are always happy to resolve any issue to your satisfaction and offer a full no-quibble money-back guarantee. We purchase many different items ourselves on eBay and understand the need for quality customer service.

Please note - before contacting us with a query that the USB drive is intended to be use on a computer only (with suitable PDF reader software) - it will not work on a home DVD player connected to your TV or a "smart" TV etc. The drive does not contain audio or video files; it is a data drive with PDFs on it

 

 

DELIVERY time-scale  - Note to All Non-UK Buyers

In 99.9% of cases we will post your international purchase to you within one Business day but after that we have absolutely no control over the speed, efficiency or effectiveness  of the particular delivery service that you have selected.


So please be aware of the following:


1. Anticipated delivery is set by eBay (not us) and should be ignored.

2. There is no set time for when your Airmail item will arrive. It may be 2 weeks, it may be 4 weeks (yes items can often take that long to be delivered); but almost certainly it will not be 5 days.

3. Standard Airmail delivery WILL NOT INCLUDE TRACKING – that service is available for an extra charge. Tracking will make  the delivery more secure but does not necessarily speed up the delivery time (we charge extra for tracking simply because that is what Royal Mail charge us).


Please form your expectations on the basis of the points mentioned above – the same points apply for all sellers though they may not openly say it; but we prefer to create a realistic expectation and as a result have a harmonious relations hip rather  than tell you it will arrive in 4 days and then have to deal with the fallout from that when it doesn’t happen.

For any queries please feel free to send us a message using the eBay message system.