BRITISH PATENT OFFICE: Patents for Inventions. Abridgement of Specifications. Class 119. Small-Arms. 1855-1930, full gilt-stamped red leather, gilt edges, 3 vols., 4to., 1905-1934; Group XXI. Excavating and Mining. Fires, Fighting. Lifesaving. Subaqueous Buildings, Warfare. 1929-37, bound en suite with the last, 2 vols., 4to., 1932-39; GARDNER (G.B.): Keris and Other Malay Weapons, 2nd. edition, rebound cloth, illustrations, inscribed by the author to 'S'gt Blackmore', and with pasted-in sheet of cartridge-paper with a watercolour on each side respectively showing an Indonesian man standing beside the colossal stone statue of a demon, and a coastal landscape captioned 'Coast of Madura' with various pencil drawings above, 4to, 1936, each with H.L.B. bookplate (6)

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BRITISH PATENT OFFICE: Patents for Inventions. Abridgement of Specifications. Class 119. Small-Arms. 1855-1930, full gilt-stamped red leather, gilt edges, 3 vols., 4to., 1905-1934; Group XXI. Excavating and Mining. Fires, Fighting. Lifesaving. Subaqueous Buildings, Warfare. 1929-37, bound en suite with the last, 2 vols., 4to., 1932-39; GARDNER (G.B.): Keris and Other Malay Weapons, 2nd. edition, rebound cloth, illustrations, inscribed by the author to 'S'gt Blackmore', and with pasted-in sheet of cartridge-paper with a watercolour on each side respectively showing an Indonesian man standing beside the colossal stone statue of a demon, and a coastal landscape captioned 'Coast of Madura' with various pencil drawings above, 4to, 1936, each with H.L.B. bookplate (6)

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Madura is an island off the coast of Java. The watercolours and drawings probably date from the 19th Century

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