Military instructions for officers detached in the field : containing, a scheme for forming a corps of a partisan : illustrated with plans of the manoeuvres necessary in carrying on the petite guerre : [One line in Latin from Ovid] / by Roger Stevenson, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Roger.

Contributor:

Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee.

Ferguson, Hugh Henry.

Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802, engraver.

Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Field service (Military science).

Military art and science--Soldiers' handbooks.

Military art and science.

Genre:

Intaglio prints.

Penn Provenance:

Barton, William, 1748-1831 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection Copy)

Snow, Samuel (inscription) (Culture Class Collection Copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xii folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : printed and sold by R. Aitken ..., MDCCLXXV [1775]

Contents:

Of the practical geometry necessary for an officer

Of the different works with which posts may be fortified

The manner of fortifying churches, mills and other detached buildings

Of the manner of fortifying villages

Of the corps of a partisan

Of the qualifications necessary in a partisan

Of the exercise

Of subordination

Of going on detachment and secret marches

Of reconnoitring

Of the defence of posts

Of the attack of posts

Of surprizes and stratagems for seizing posts

Of ambuscades

Of the retreat.

Notes:

Signatures: pi⁴ A-U⁶ X².

"Edited by Hugh Henry Ferguson." Cf. Evans. Dedicated to George Washington by the editor.

Plate VII signed: [Robert] Aitken, sculp.

Includes index.

Price from below imprint reads: "[Price, bound, six shillings and six-pence.]". Two states of the title page noted; in the other state the price reads: "[Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.]".

Error in numbering: plates VII and VIII misnumbered as VIII and VII, respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy front flyleaf has an inscription in brown ink, partially struck through, that reads "[Illegible][William Barton?] his book. at Head Quarters on Rhode Island December 1st, 1775."; a struck through inscription in brown ink at head of pi2r ("Samuel Snow's" [?]); and on verso of first back flyleaf an ms. drawing of a fish above a struck through, illegible inscription, with ms. inscription below: "His book, 1776."

Culture Class Collection copy has a partially illegible blue stamp at foot of t.p.

Culture Class Collection copy has an ms. transcription of the dedication in brown ink on verso of t.p.

Culture Class Collection copy half bound in red morocco; five gold-tooled, raised bands on spine; author and brief title stamped in gilt in second and third spine panels; date of imprint stamped in gilt at foot of spine; left and right boards are detaching from spine.

Cited in:

Evans, 14475

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3290

OCLC:

207896952