Military Instructions for Officers Detached in the Field.
Roger Stevenson.
Military Instructions for Officers Detached in the Field.
Philadelphia: Aitken, 1775
12 plates. [8], vii, 232, [4] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered with portion of original backstrip laid down; endpapers renewed, moderate foxing; library bookplate and release stamp on front pastedown.
First American edition, edited by Hugh Henry Ferguson and issued in the first months of the war for the use of the enthusiastic but haphazardly trained Continental Army. Includes a four-page dedication to General Washington, concluding with "wishes and prayers . . . for the safety and success of the brave Americans you command, till the arrival of that joyful day, when peace or conquest shall honorably terminate the dispute." Howes S981 ("aa"--"first book carrying a dedication to Washington"). Evans 14475.
Roger Stevenson.
Military Instructions for Officers Detached in the Field.
Philadelphia: Aitken, 1775
12 plates. [8], vii, 232, [4] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered with portion of original backstrip laid down; endpapers renewed, moderate foxing; library bookplate and release stamp on front pastedown.
First American edition, edited by Hugh Henry Ferguson and issued in the first months of the war for the use of the enthusiastic but haphazardly trained Continental Army. Includes a four-page dedication to General Washington, concluding with "wishes and prayers . . . for the safety and success of the brave Americans you command, till the arrival of that joyful day, when peace or conquest shall honorably terminate the dispute." Howes S981 ("aa"--"first book carrying a dedication to Washington"). Evans 14475.
