RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE FIELD EXERCISE AND MANOEUVRES OF INFANTRY, COMPILED AND ADAPTED TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, AGREEABLY TO A RESOLVE OF CONGRESS, DATED DECEMBER, 1814. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

[Scott, Winfield]:

Edité par Concord: Printed by Isaac Hill, for the State of New-Hampshire, 1817.

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Second edition of General Winfield Scott's new infantry manual, printed for the state of New Hampshire; this copy being an official copy of the state's Ninth Regiment, according to a manuscript note pasted to the front pastedown: "June 12th, 1817, Capt. Phinehas Stone, received, of Coln. Nathaniel Moore, this book, being the property of the State of New Hampshire, designed for the use of the Ninth Regiment of Militia in said State." Stone (1775 1852) served as a captain during the War of 1812, and went on to become colonel of the regiment in 1818. The front free endpaper is inscribed in pencil, "Amos S. / Amos Stone Mills." Loose contemporary manuscript notes are also laid in, with the titles of various sections of the manual written out along with corresponding page numbers. One of these sheets also has a "List of Young Soldiers"; the list has an "X" through it, but is easily readable, and includes the soldier, "John Lufkin 16 years old 5 day July 1816." Following the War of 1812 and realizing a need for more modern military tactics, General Scott presided over a board of military officers to produce a new set of rules and regulations to replace those developed by Baron von Steuben, which had been used by the U.S. military since the American Revolution. Borrowing from the French tactician Irenée Amelot de Lacroix's Military and Political Hints (Boston, 1808), Scott first published Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise and Manoeuvers of Infantry in New York in 1815. This second edition was published two years later in Concord, presumably using the same copperplates for the atlas. In both editions, J.D. Stout of New York, is named as the engraver on the first plate. However, neither edition is recorded in AMERICAN IMPRINTS as being conjoined with this atlas, which includes forty plates (one on two sheets for a total of forty-one) illustrating the text. Although the atlas bears no titlepage or other identification, the plates correlate with references in the text volume to the figures (pp.313-28). The plates depict various military evolutions and maneuvers, and if bound with the text, would have created a rather bulky volume. An important work in the history of the professionalization of the American Army, with a significant provenance. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 42741 (text volume; 1 copy only). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 36412 (ref). Four manuscript notes laid into text volume (see below). Text: Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt morocco label. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, chipped at head of spine and upper inner corner of rear board. Manuscript note pasted to front pastedown, pencil inscription on front free endpaper. Lower outer corner of pages 81-82 and 145-146 torn (no loss of text). Moderate tanning and foxing throughout. Atlas volume: Small quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and blue paper boards. Wear and soiling to boards, tail of spine frayed. Plate 21 lacking (plate 17 repeated in its place), plates 1, 24, 28, 29, 34 with small closed tears at inside margin (no loss of text); plate 33 with six-inch closed tear at inside margin and fraying to outside margin (slight loss of text), plate 40 with lower outside corner torn away (some loss of text), occasional light soiling. About very good overall.

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• Titre: RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE FIELD EXERCISE AND MANOEUVRES OF INFANTRY, COMPILED AND ADAPTED TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, AGREEABLY TO A RESOLVE OF CONGRESS, DATED DECEMBER, 1814. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
• Éditeur: Concord: Printed by Isaac Hill, for the State of New-Hampshire, 1817.