May 27, 2020 Founders & Patriots
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"A COMPEND OF Military Discipline FOR THE TROOPS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. CHIEFLY from the REGULATIONS OF Baron STEUBEN, and Major General SULLIVAN. TO WHICH IS ADDED, An ACT for regulating the MILITIA of this STATE." Concord, NH: "FROM THE MIRROUR PRESS--BY E. RUSSELL. Sold by him Wholesale and Retail.", 1794. Octavo, 32 pp., in original paper wraps. A variant printing from that listed in EVANS 27370 (a 1794 Concord printing by George Hough in the British Library, the only copy known at the time). An extremely rare and important military manual, published by order of John Sullivan, former major general in the Continental Army and then serving as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of New Hampshire, it was based on von Steuben's "Blue Book" and Sullivan's own military experience. Worldcat identifies only two copies worldwide and this newly-discovered, third copy, as with the other two, lacks the appendix noted on the title page, An Act...State", which was apparently never published with this work, as noted by the printer in a footer to p. 32, in which he states that he awaits "the new act--which shall be immediately printed, and presented to those who purchase this Compend before it is added." The recto of the title page is annotated in ink, "William Smith's Propperty Presented to him by James Baker of New Holderness August 17th 1801." CONDITION: The stitched paper covers with some soiling, the corners of pages dog-eared at top, light uniform toning overall, otherwise very good. JLK