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;

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Roger Stevenson (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, printer and bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street. M.DCC.LXXV. (Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.), [1775]

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

W20757

Grub Street ID

330463

Description

[8],vii,[1],232,[4]p., xii leaves of plates (7folded) : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

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

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.

Plate VII signed: [Robert] Aitken, sculp.

Two states of the title page noted. In one, the imprint reads "[Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.]". In the other it reads "[Price, bound, six shillings and six-pence.]".

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Signatures: pi? A-U? X?

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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;