Military instructions for officers detached in the field
Subtitle: containing, a scheme for forming a corps of a partisan. : Illustrated with plans of the manoeuvres necessary in carrying on the petite guerre. : [One line in Latin from Ovid]
By: By Roger Stevenson, Esq;
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 14475
Publisher: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, printer and bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street. M.DCC.LXXV. (Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.)
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Field service (Military science); Military art and science; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: "Edited by Hugh Henry Ferguson."--Evans. Dedicated to George Washington by the editor.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.

Plate VII signed: [Robert] Aitken, sculp.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-U⁶ X².

Two states of the title page noted. In one, the imprint reads "[Price, bound, seven shillings and six-pence.]". In the other it reads "[Price, bound, six shillings and six-pence.]".

Error in numbering: plates VII, VIII misnumbered VIII, VII.

Evans 14475

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