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A treatise on the british drill and exercise of the company; with an introduction to the field exercise of the battalion; explaining the different posts and situations of every individual in the battalion During the Performance of its Movements
1814AQ22779London: Printed and sold by W. Clowes 1814. 3 vi-xxxii 351pp 1. Without half-title. With 82 engraved figures on five folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Lightly rubbed and marked corners bumped head of spine scorched. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle third Lord Cottesloe 1862-1965 to FEP manuscript shelf-marks to front blank fly-leaf tear to leaves K9-10 - touching text without loss of sense. The uncommon first edition of an exhaustive and authoritative manual on British Army drills; published in the penultimate year of the Napoleonic Wars. A second edition appeared in 1816. In his prefatory remarks the anonymous infantry officer bemoans the 'little attention which is sometimes bestowed to the instruction of the troops' and the 'careless manner in which the drill and exercise are often carried on' situations which he hopes his book may rectify. The usual databases record copies at five locations BNF Buffalo California Canadian Museum of History and Mississippi. . First edition. 12mo. Printed and sold by W. Clowes unknown
Antiquates Ltd · Royaume-Uni500,00 £GB≈ 570,90 €
