December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
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Hoyt, Epaphras. "A Treatise on the Military Art: in Four Parts [N.B. only parts I & II were published in this first edition], Containing: I. A comprehensive system of Discipline for the Cavalry of the United States; adopted to the principles of Baron Steuben’s Regulations for the Infantry, and the latest Prussian and English Treatises on Cavalry. II. Regulations concerning the Duty of Cavalry in Camp in time of War." Brattlesborough, MA: printed by Benjamin Smead, for the Author, Sold by him, and by Russell Ripley, Greenfield. 1798. v, 209 p. [4], plates. Original leather binding with maroon spine label. First edition of one of the earliest American treatises on cavalry discipline, published during the Quasi-War.