Unusual firearms and rifles. Large heavy matchlock from 1615 1, old Spanish matchlock 2, old Spanish hunting rifle 3, double-lock rifle 4, rifle with magazine 5, old Turkish rifle 6, and Persian rifle 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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