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The illustrated directory of knives, daggers and bayonets : a visual encyclopedia of edged weapons from around the world, including knives, daggers, bayonets, machetes and khanjars, with over 530 photographs

Capwell, Tobias2011

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A encyclopedia of over 350 edged weapons from around the world from the Stone Age to the modern day. Each photograph is labelled to show the features of each blade plus specification boxes give date of manufacture, country of origin and size

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Main title:

The illustrated directory of knives, daggers and bayonets : a visual encyclopedia of edged weapons from around the world, including knives, daggers, bayonets, machetes and khanjars, with over 530 photographs / by Tobias Capwell

Author:

Capwell, Tobias

Imprint:

Wigston Southwater 2011

Collation:

160 p. colour illustrations

Contents:

Design of knives, daggers and bayonets -- Blade cross-sections -- Decorations -- Stone Age blades -- Ancient Egyptian knives and daggers -- Bronze Age edged weapons -- Daggers of the Classical World -- Daggers of the Medieval Period -- Rondel daggers -- Baselards -- Ballock daggers -- Daggers of the Renaissance -- Cinquedeas -- Side ring parrying daggers -- 17th-century main-gauche daggers -- 17th-century stilettos -- 17th-century plug bayonets -- 17th-and 18th-century civilian daggers -- 18th-and 19th-century naval dirks -- Georgian dirks -- Highland daggers and dirks -- 19th-century hunting and Bowie knives -- 19th-century folding knives -- 19th-century civilian fighting knives -- 19th-century combination knives -- 18th-and 19th-century socket bayonets -- 19th-century sword bayonets -- 19th-century knife bayonets -- Presentation knives and daggers -- Unusual bayonets -- 18th-to 20th-century integral bayonets -- Fighting knives of World War I -- Bayonets of World War I -- Survival weapons of World War II and after -- German Third Reich edged weapons -- Bayonets of World War II -- Bayonets up to the present day -- Civilian knives to the present day -- African knives and daggers -- Persia, Middle East and Turkey -- Indo-Persian khanjars -- Indo-Persian kards -- Indo-Persian peshkabz -- Indian knives, daggers and bayonets -- Indian katars -- Indian chilanums and khanjarlis -- The Indonesian kris -- Japanese daggers

ISBN:

9781844769995 (pbk 1844769992 pbk)

Dewey class:

623.441 ILL

Local class:

623.441

Language:

English

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