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STEUBEN, Friedrich Wilhelm von (1730-1794). Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, Part I (all issued). Hartford: Nathaniel Patten, [1783].
12o (152 x 96 mm). 7 engraved folding plates (of 8, lacking plate IV, most with splits at folds, some frayed at edges). (Browning, some spotting.) Contemporary quarter sheep, paper covered wooden boards (paper mostly peeled away). Provenance: Jedediah Fox (early ownership inscription on front and back flyleaf); A.R. Womrath (purchase note date 7 October 1912); Frederick W. Skiff (paper bookplate); Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
LATER EDITION OF THE FIRST MILITARY REGULATIONS ISSUED FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY. An important manual of rules, regulations and military drill developed by Baron von Steuben during his vital effort to train the Continental Army at Valley Forge. First published four years earlier by Hudson and Goodwin in Hartford, 1779. Howes S951; Sabin 91400.
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LATER EDITION OF THE FIRST MILITARY REGULATIONS ISSUED FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY. An important manual of rules, regulations and military drill developed by Baron von Steuben during his vital effort to train the Continental Army at Valley Forge. First published four years earlier by Hudson and Goodwin in Hartford, 1779. Howes S951; Sabin 91400.
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