STEUBEN FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON Regulations for the Order and

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OWNED BY A REVOLUTIONARY VETERAN STEUBEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON. Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States. 2 folding plates. 96 pages. 12mo, original plain wrappers, worn; foxing, minor dampstaining; signed by early owner on front free endpaper. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1788

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First Worcester edition; the first edition was in 1779. The original owner, Abraham Holmes (1754-1839) of Marshfield, MA, served as a sergeant in Ebenezer Sproat's Massachusetts regiment during the Revolution. "Steuben gave the Continental Army a single manual . . . which remained for the next thirty-three years the official manual of the U.S. Army"--Unwin, The United States Infantry, page 25. Evans 21530; Sabin 91408. Provenance: sold by Goodspeed's to Henry E. Luhrs and his Lincoln Library in 1958; Heritage Luhrs sale, 20 February 2006, lot 25379, to the consignor.