Item #40657 A Treatise on the Military Art; in four parts. Containing I. A comprehensive system of Discipline, for the Cavalry of the United States; II. Regulations concerning the Duty of Cavalry in Camp in time of War; III. Directions for the conduct of Paltizan [sic] Corps, ..., IV. Maxims relating to the Marching, Encampment, Vol. I. Part I. & II. (All published). HOYT, paphras.
A Treatise on the Military Art; in four parts. Containing I. A comprehensive system of Discipline, for the Cavalry of the United States; II. Regulations concerning the Duty of Cavalry in Camp in time of War; III. Directions for the conduct of Paltizan [sic] Corps, ..., IV. Maxims relating to the Marching, Encampment, Vol. I. Part I. & II. (All published).
A Treatise on the Military Art; in four parts. Containing I. A comprehensive system of Discipline, for the Cavalry of the United States; II. Regulations concerning the Duty of Cavalry in Camp in time of War; III. Directions for the conduct of Paltizan [sic] Corps, ..., IV. Maxims relating to the Marching, Encampment, Vol. I. Part I. & II. (All published).

A Treatise on the Military Art; in four parts. Containing I. A comprehensive system of Discipline, for the Cavalry of the United States; II. Regulations concerning the Duty of Cavalry in Camp in time of War; III. Directions for the conduct of Paltizan [sic] Corps, ..., IV. Maxims relating to the Marching, Encampment, Vol. I. Part I. & II. (All published).

Printed at Brattleborough by Benjamin Smead, for the Author. Sold by him, and by Russell & Ripley, Greenfield. 1798. 12mo (in 6s), 17cm, The First Edition, v,[1],[7]-212,[2]p., (Errata), with 10 folding engraved plates, original full roan sheep, leather label, stamping faded, some wear, some toning in the text & on the endpapers, p1-13 have some foxing on the text fore-edge, considering the book production of this period this is a better than very good sound copy, rare.(cgc). Item #40657

From the library of Hall Park McCullough, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Evans 33907. McCorison 490. Not in Howes, Streeter, Sabin, Church, Decker, etc. No recent auction records, last being 2006. The author (1765-1850) held many positions in Deerfield, Mass - surveyor, postmaster, justice of the peace, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, etc. He was also a major-general in the Massachusetts militia. Besides this work, he also wrote other military and genealogical treatises, and upon his death, manuscripts were found of incomplete works pertaining to Burgoyne's campaign and various aspects of the French and Indian War. A second volume was planned but never materialized. "The propriety of publishing and selling the first volume of this work, separate from the second, will be obvious; - the first being calculated principally for the discipline of the Cavalry - the second, containing rules for the management of Troops in the field, in carrying on the "Petite Guerre," and in some of the higher branches of war; being applicable to Infantry as well as Cavalry, - It is presumed that many would wish to procure the first, who would not go to the expense of both. " - (Advertisement, p[i]).

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