Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) [Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von.] Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States. Part I (all published). 8 folding plates. 138, [6] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn; moderate foxing and wear, several plates with full separations at folds and small chips, Plate VII missing a large section; early owners' inscriptions on front free endpaper. Hartford, CT: Hudson & Goodwin, [1782]

Additional Details

Preceded only by a 1779 Philadelphia edition. "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. Bristol B5608; Howes S951 ("aa"); Sabin 91398.