Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855.
Price: $175.00
Hardcover. Volume One only. 32mo. 250pp., illustrated with engraved plates (charts and diagrams), including a fold-out frontispiece. Contemporary quarter black leather and brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering on the spine, and small decorations stamped in blind at the crown and foot of the spine. Professionally re-backed with most of the original spine laid down and later plain endpapers. Some old light dampstaining at the edges of the margins throughout, endpapers lightly toned with minor foxing, very good. "Prepared under the direction of the war department." In addition to explaining tactics and maneuvers, it also has musical notation for several bugle calls.
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