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Ágoston, Gábor
Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and
the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman
Empire
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Akehurst, Richard  
Game Guns & Rifles Percussion to
Hammerless Ejector in Britain
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American Iron and
Steel Association
Directory to the Iron and Steel Works of
the United States, 1892
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Vannoccio
Biringuccio
Translated by
C.S. Smith
The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio:
The Classic Sixteenth-Treatise on Metal
and Metallurgy
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Henry Blochmann
Henry Sullivan Jarrett
The Ain i Akbari
By
Abū al-Fazul ibn Mubārak
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Bolles, Albert Sidney
Industrial History of the
United States 1878
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British Consulate
British Consular Report
Liege Gun Industry 1906
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Castille, Antoine
Making Damascus Guns
in Nessonvaux
1925 Silent Film
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Chartered Insurance
Institute
Journal
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Rianer Daehnhardt &
W.K Keith Neal
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( translators )
Espingarda Perfeyta
or The Perfect Gun
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Jacques Dubreucq
Liége en cartes postales anciennes
 
Lord Egerton
Indian and Oriental Armour
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Robert Elgood
Firearms of the Islamic World
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Robert Elgood
Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and
Armour from India 1400-1865
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Rainer Fremdling
Foreign Trade–Transfer-
Adaptation: The British Iron Making
Technology on the Continent
(Belgium and France)
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Claude Gaier
Belgian Gun Making and American
History
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Claude Gaier
Four Centuries of Liege Gun making
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Claude Gaier
L'Epreuve des armes à feu à Liége
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Art Gogan
Fighting Iron A metals Handbook
for Arms Collectors
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William Greener
The gun or, A treatise on the
various descriptions of small
fire-arms, 1835
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William Greener
The science of gunnery, as applied
to the use and construction of
fire-arms, 1841
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WW Greener
The Gun and Its Development, 1909
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Manufrance P
Manufrance 1890 Catalog page 8-9
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U.S Department of
Interior
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Fire-Arms Manufacture 1880
 
Anthony North
Islamic Arms - Victoria & Albert
Museum
 
 
Armes de chasse Collection musée
d'Art et d'Industrie Saint-Étienne
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Charles G Semmer  P
Remington Double Shotguns
contains picture of a salesman's sample
with named types of Damascus patterns
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Jean Puraye
Le Damas
Puraye is the beginning of modern
research into Forge Welded
Damascus
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Jean Puraye
American Rifleman Articles April &
May 1976
based on Le Damas
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William McKinley P
The Tariff Speech
May 7, 1890
 
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Report of the Gun Foundry Board,
1884
 
Ernst Heuse-Lemoine P
Manufacture of Damascus Gun
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Parker Catalog 1899
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Industrial History of Birmingham
and the Midlands Hardware District
(1866)
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George Cameron Stone
A Glossary of the Construction,
Decoration, and Use of Arms and
Armor in all countries and all times
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La Verne Ward Spring
Non-technical Chats on Iron and
Steel: And Their Application to
Modern Industry
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Andrew Ure
A dictionary of arts, manufactures,
and mines
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Henry Wilkinson
Engines of War, Or, Historical and
Experimental Observations on
Ancient
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Frederick Toms
Sporting Guns and Gunpowders:
Comprising a Selection from
Reports of Experiments
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Arnold Pacey
Technology in World Civilization: A
Thousand-Year History
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Iron & Steel Institute
Journal
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R.L.Wilson
The World of Beretta: An
International Legend
Some good images of early Italian Damascus
production, but you have to "hunt" to find them.  
Still the only modern source
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Edward Henry Knight
Reports of the United States
Commissioners to the Paris
Universal, 1880
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Marolles P
An essay on shooting [based on La
Chasse au Fusil]
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