Mauser Bolt Rifles, in Two Volumes

107 pp., paginated continuously, with unnumbered black-and-white photograph pages. Volume 1: A description of Mauser military bolt action rifles and ammunition adapted to them. Also includes a chapter on Mauser history. Volume 2: Includes a description of Mauser high power sporting rifles and cartridges as well as various models of .22 Mausers. Also compares the original Mauser with rifles copied from it. "Mauser are a German arms manufacturer, maker of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to present. Their designs were built for the German armed forces but have been exported and licensed to a number of countries since the later Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, as well as being a popular civilian firearm. In the late twentieth century, Mauser continued to make sporting and hunting rifles. In the 1990s it became a subsidiary of Rheinmetall. Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH was split off and continues making rifles, while the Rheinmetal subsidiary, called Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH made other products for a time before being merged into Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh. The Mauser name has also sometimes been licensed by other companies."