Arms and Armour, in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons

xvi, 296 pp. Brown boards with gilt title and decoration on spine and front board. Top page ridge gilt. Translated from the French of M. P. Lacombe, and with a preface, notes, and one additional chapter on arms and armour in England. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Preface; The Weapons of the Stone Age; The Arms and Armour of the Bronze Age: Arms and Armour of the Assyrians - Arms and Armour of the Gauls - Arms and Armour of the Greeks of the Heroic Ages; Arms and Armour of the Greeks and Persians; Arms and Armour of the Etruscans; Arms and Armour of the Romans: Defensive Armour - Offensive Weapons; The Decoration of Ancient Arms and Armour; Weapons of Savage Races: Arms and Armour of the Franks and the Era of Clovis, A.D. 481-511 - Arms and Armour of the Franks of the Era of Charlemagne, A.D. 768-814; Arms and Armour of the Middle Ages; Arms and Amour of the Transition Era--Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Arms and Armour in England; Modern Arms: Artillery - Small Arms; Appendix of Remarkable Examples of Arms and Amour; Notes.