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1746724021746. Sin editor lugar ni fecha. unknown
1701C2C170429016Washington Government Printing Office 1917-01-01. Paperback. Good. Writing on 3 pages. Cover has minor wear. Binding is tight. Washington Government Printing Office paperback
1761045558Madrid: D. Gabriel Ramirez 1761. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full vellum mild discoloration small tear to rear cover a few scratches and surface marks. Lacking endpapers otherwise very clean and bright internally.180pp Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; History. Inventory No: 045558. D. Gabriel Ramirez hardcover
17532716London: Printed for W. Owen 1753. 8vo pp. ii 74. Disbound portion of leather spine retained. Some light soiling final leaf almost loose. A rare pamphlet answering Charles Sackville Duke of Dorset’s ‘Treatise Concerning Militia’ of the previous year which had argued for a reduction in the size of the army. ESTC locates just four copies in the UK and four in the USA: 2 in the BL one each in Cambridge and the Rylands plus the BPL Huntington Colorado and Yale. ESTC T140940. Printed for W. Owen hardcover
1786845J12London: War-Office 1786. Leather. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A scarce eighteenth-century reference work on the officers of the army and marines bound in full contemporary morocco. A comprehensive eighteenth-century reference work containing a list of the officers of the army and marines including a lengthy index to the rear. Also including a list of the officers on half pay and a succession of colonels. Produced by the British Army and printed by the War-Office in 1786. The thirty-fourth edition of this work. A scarce work in any edition. Containing a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. ESTC Citation No. T92001Signature: 2 A1-2K2 In contemporary full morocco binding. Externally sound with rubbing to the joints head and tail of the spine and extremities. More significant rubbing to the spine. Containing a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally front hinge is lightly strained. Title page has some removal to the head possibly to cut off a contemporary signature. A few light spots to the pages which are otherwise bright and clean. Good War-Office hardcover
17930010165France. Fair with no dust jacket. 1793. Ephemera. On offer is a fine example of a military certificate of good conduct issued by one of the French Revolutionary armies. The certificate is dated 25 Prairial Year 2 French revolutionary calendar corresponding to June 15th 1793. The recipient is a soldier who is serving in the 1st Battalion. The certificate commends his service and valour. The certificate is signed by several officers. One signature reads simply Commandant en Chef or Commander in Chief. At that time the Commander in Chief of the Army of the Alps was the famed French General François Christophe Kellermann. Kellerman was a life-long soldier entering the Royal Army at age 15 and later rising to command revolutionary troops and then serving under Napoleon as one of his Marshals. In 1797 the Army of the Alps was merged into The Army of Italy and was one of Napoleons first commands. The Army of the Alps was reconstituted in the French Army during WWII. The folded certificate was then sealed with a red wax seal which is still present. For a historian this is an outstanding document that connects the owner to one of the great Generals of the Napoleonic Wars and to an Army that fought extensively in the Napoleonic Wars. Dating from mid-1793 this certificate measures 8.5 inches by 12.0 inches. The document was originally folded into four panels 8 inches by 3 inches and then folded in half. It has been unfolded and affixed to sheet of heavy paper likely dating from the same time period. There are wear marks along the fold lines and on the edges. The handwriting is fairly legible being written in a copperplate script. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author . unknown
1786AQ20615London: s.n. 1786. 2 22 25-136 135-213 300-376pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco brown morocco lettering-piece A.E.G. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers later armorial bookplate of Charles Bybie Lyster to FEP light toning to margins. A well preserved finely bound copy of this 1786 army list. Containing the names of all Officers of the British army in the lull between the American Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic conflict. ESTC T92001. Thirty-fourth edition. 8vo. [s.n.] unknown
1794AQ22706London: Printed by B. Millan printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 1794. viii 102pp. With a half-title. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked spine dulled. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Robert Saunders Dundas Second Viscount Melville 1771-1851 to FEP. The first edition of an anonymous history charting the rise and progress of British Army regiments throughout the conflicts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries particularly in regard to their involvement in the Eighty Years War 1568-1648 and subsequent Anglo-Dutch hostilities. The latter half the text is devoted solely to the formation and activities of the Scots Brigade an infantry brigade that served in the army of the Dutch Republic and were instrumental in the Revolution of 1688 and the suppression of the Jacobite Risings before being amalgamated into the Dutch line regiments in 1782. ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles BL Manchester NLS NLW Oxford and Trinity College and a further in North America Folger Harvard and Royal Military College. ESTC T82426. First edition. 8vo. Printed by B. Millan, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales unknown
1720AQ30320London: Printed for J. Roberts.and A. Dodd 1720. 2 8pp. Modern marbled paper boards. Leaves dust-soiled. The second edition printed in the same year as the first of the first formal listing of the terms and prices applying to the purchase of infantry and cavalry commissions. The practice of purchasing commissions began during the reign of Charles II and continued until abolished in 1871 as a part of the Cardwell Reforms. The highest 'tariff' for a commission recorded here is that of a colonelcy in Lord Irwin's Regiment for the staggering sum of £9000. ESTC N40105. Second edition. Folio. Printed for J. Roberts...and A. Dodd hardcover
1766AQ28034London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1766. 2 5-206pp 2. Imprint from general title page. Contemporary blind-ruled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed corners exposed upper board detached lower joint split some loss to head of spine. Early ownership inscription to general title page very occasional light spotting. An apparently unrecorded edition of the public general act renewing the terms of the previous Mutiny Act as well as the articles relating to the quartering of British Army troops in foreign territories notably the raising of troops in America: 'The officers and Soldiers of any Troops which are or shall be raised in America being mustered and in Pay shall at all Times and in all Places when joined or acting in Conjuction with Our British Forces be governed by these Rules or Articles of War and shall be subject to be tried by Courts-martial in like Manner with the Officers and Soldiers of Our British Troops'. Not in ESTC. 8vo. Printed by Mark Baskett unknown
1754AQ22977London: Printed for Paul Vaillant 1754. xv 1 423pp 1. With seven engraved folding plates and eight folding tables. Contemporary sprinkled calf tan morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed and marked upper joint starting. Book-label of Sir John Dashwood King to FEP. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition in English of the Kingdom of Prussia's infantry guide: Reglement vor die königl. preussische Infanterie the first published work of army officer and much-admired military tactician Sir William Fawcett 1727- 1804. In 1781 having served with distinction in several campaigns in Germany Fawcett was appointed adjutant-general on the British establishment promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general and charged with reviewing the severely disrupted and outmoded drill system. He was well-suited to the task being widely considered to possess one of the finest strategic minds of his day and well versed in contemporary martial literature having translated inter alia Reveries or Memoirs upon the Art of War London 1757 Regulations for the Prussian Cavalry London 1759 and Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry London 1798. ESTC T115267. First. edition in English. 8vo. Printed for Paul Vaillant unknown
1786AQ22809Dublin: Printed for George Grierson 1786. vii 1. 248pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf tooled in gilt and blind contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and a trifle marked upper joint split lower joint starting spine dulled. Gatherings C and H browned scattered spotting. A rare survival of a Dublin-printed edition of the revised official standing orders of the British Army compiled by Adjutant General Henry Pigot 1750-1840 in order to 'remove the various Defects in Discipline which may have been introduced either through Negligence or Prejudice and confirmed by long Practice' in both English and Irish regiments. ESTC records copies at just two locations NLI and Queen's University of Belfast. ESTC T184243. 8vo. Printed for George Grierson unknown
1796173179London: War Office 1796. Hardcover. Good cover edges bumped cover soiled interior tight. Red leather boards with gilt lettering on spine 98 pp 29 leaves of plates 27 folded. Printed for the War Office. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. War Office hardcover
1799183026London: War-Office 1st March 1799. Late 18th-century edition in an attractive binding. Army lists were published annually by the War Office between 1754 and 1879 giving the names of officers and their dates of commission. The fore-edge painting executed at a later date shows Broadway and New York City Hall based on an etching by Carl Fredrik Akrell after a drawing by Baron Axel Leonard Klinckowström. Provenance: Alexander Adair d.1834 with his armorial bookplate. Adair was the great grandson of Sir Robert Adair of Ballymena and inherited the family estate at Flixton Hall in 1783. In 1805 he raised and commanded the 9th Troop of Suffolk Yeomanry. One "Mr Adair" army agent at Pall Mall is listed on Page 73. The same page features numerous ink corrections to the list. Octavo 226 x 140 mm pp. ii 655 5. Tables in text. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco green spine label smooth spine compartments decorated with gilt sunburst device boards tooled with gilt borders board edges milled in gilt turn-ins tooled in gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt near-contemporary fore-edge painting of Broadway in 1824. Spine rumpled boards slightly marked contents clean: a very good copy. ESTC T170321. hardcover
17821054<b>BAKING MANUSCRIPT GERMAN MILITARY. </b><i>Back-oefen und Anlagung der feld=Bacherey. 1782. </i>Original Manuscript. Folio old marbled boards edges worn cloth back pp. 53. N.p. Germany or Austria 1782. German military back-oven regulations. <br /> hardcover
1780400384War-Office 1780. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in gilt-blocked leather. Generalized wear to some of the boards with edges roughly rubbed. Remains a well-preserved set overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical Description; 371 i.e. 330 86 i.e. 80 pages ; 33 cm. Notes; Spine title: Army list. Added title page: List of the officers of the several regiments and corps of militia. Subjects; Armed Forces Officers. Grande-Bretagne. Army Officiers Registres. Great Britain. Great Britain Militia Registers. Great Britain. Army. Great Britain. Army Officers Registers. Great Britain Royal Marines. Great Britain. Royal Marines Officers RegistersMilitia. Registers Lists. War-Office hardcover
1783124569London: War-Office 28 April 1783. First edition compiled just a few months before the conclusion of the War of Independence. These eighteenth-century Army Lists are becoming increasingly elusive those with relevance to the American Wars being particularly desirable and especially so when as here they are printed on thick paper and presented in the style of binding which seems to have been reserved by the War Office for presentation copies. A very handsome piece indeed. Octavo 228 x 138 mm. Contemporary red morocco green morocco label flat spine elaborately gilt with gilt pentaglyph and metope stylised quatrefoil and plain reeded rolls gilt panel of swags and sunflowers to the boards gilt edge-roll all edges gilt palm branch and quatrefoil roll gilt to the turn-ins marbled endpapers Greek key roll to boards floral roll to turn-ins and all edges gilt. Lightly rubbed spine a touch sunned small chip from the lower edge of the label no loss of lettering corners just a little bumped but a very good copy. hardcover
179332480London: Printed for J. Debrett 1793. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions. Three-quarter leather. Good. Octavo. 1 xvi 433 pages 1 page blank 19 page index 1 page errata 2 pages advertisements 1. Recased binding with three-quarter brown leather and marbled paper covered boards. Gilt title and five raised bands on the spine. Newer front and rear end papers and one front blank end sheet inserted. The original rear end sheet is present. The folding frontispiece map is toned on the verso with an old repair made also on the verso. Some light edge wear to the map. The folding view of the Rapids of the Ohio and the State Map of Kentucky are in very good condition with light toning. <br /> <br /> Pages 417-433 includes a "Report of the Secretary of State to the President of the United States of the Quantity and Situation of the Lands not Claimed by the Indians Nor Granted to Nor Claimed by Any Citizens Within the Territory of the United States. Read in the House of Representatives Nov. 10 1791" by Thomas Jefferson. <br /> <br /> Howes I 12; Howes Reference Filson - F 129; Sabin 34355; Streeter III 1523; Clark II 41 "An early account of the western country.which was produced by a man who left Kentucky without settling his obligations who seems to have been involved in efforts to organize a French expedition to take the lower Mississippi Valley and who treated Mary Wollstonecraft Shamelessly. This book was written in the form of letters from Kentucky to a friend in England. In all probability they were written in Europe. Printed for J. Debrett unknown
17932201040008Philadelphia: : Printed by E. Oswald no. 156 Market-Street south between Fourth and Fifth-Streets. M DCC XCIII 1793. Hardcover. Good. Von Steuben's Revolutionary War Manual on Drill was written at George Washington's urging. It remained an important guide for the American military through the War of 1812 Rebound in early 20th century 1/2 cloth over marbled boards. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Foxing. 48 p. ; 22 cm. 8vo. <br> Evans 26358. ESTC W21724. <br> Prepared by Friedrich von Steuben in 1779 as inspector general of the Continental Army; adopted nationally by the Uniform Militia Act of 1792. 'Washington asked Steuben to serve temporarily as inspector general and to begin his duties by instructing the soldiers in the long-neglected subjects of discipline and drill. To the amazement of the Americans who were unaccustomed to officers acting as drillmasters Steuben initially formed a model company which he personally instructed with the aid of a translator. By April Steuben had acquired four assistant inspectors and had extended drill instruction to the whole army. Lacking adequate drill manuals Steuben wrote daily lessons in which he greatly simplified and softened Prussian methods to fit the immediate needs and free-spirited ways of the American soldiers . The transformation that Steuben wrought in the training of the Continental army greatly impressed Washington and other observers. In May 1778 Congress acting at Washington's recommendation officially appointed Steuben inspector general of the army with the rank and pay of major general.' ANB online. Philadelphia: : Printed by E. Oswald, no. 156, Market-Street, south, between Fourth and Fifth-Streets., M, DCC, XCIII hardcover