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Bland’s military discipline.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 55, as above.
BLAND,
Humphrey.
A Treatise of Military Discipline; in which is Laid down and Explained the Duty of the Officer and Soldier, thro’ the several
Branches of the Service. By Humphrey Bland, Esq; Major-General of His Majesty’s Forces. The
Seventh Edition . . .
London: Printed for
John and Paul Knapton,
Samuel Birt and
T. and T. Longman,
1753.
8vo. 198 leaves, woodcut monogram on the title-page, 7 engraved, folded plans.
This edition not in the
Royal United Services Library Catalogue, and not in the
U.S. War Department Library Catalogue.
Humphrey Bland, 1686?-1763, of Queen’s County, Ireland, military writer, was general and colonel of the King’s dragoon guards.
A Treatise of Military Discipline was first published in 1727, and went through many editions. It was for a long time the recognized textbook of drill and
discipline in the British army.
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Digges’s Stratioticos
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 54, as above.
DIGGES,
Leonard
and DIGGES,
Thomas.
An Arithmetical warlike Treatise named Stratioticos . . . First published by Thomas Digges Esquire Anno Salutis 1579 . . . lately reuiewed and corrected by the author himselfe, and also augmented with sundry additions
. . .
At
London: Imprinted by
Richard Field,
1590.
Second Edition. 4to. 151 leaves, the last leaf with a printer’s mark and colophon, wooduct arms of Digges, 2 folded woodcut diagrams; no copy was seen for collation.
STC 6849.
Hazlitt II, 177.
Cockle 25.
Leonard Digges, English mathematician, d. 1571?, began this work, which was augmented and published with a dedication to the Earl of Leicester
by his son Thomas Digges, d. 1595, also a mathematician. The first edition appeared in 1579.
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Fisher’s military tactics.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 56, as above.
FISHER,
Daniel.
A System of military Tactics, containing the principles of discipline and movements, chiefly applied to infantry; with the
rules and regulations designed for the forces of the United States. To which is added, the various forms of reports . . .
by Daniel Fisher.
New York: Printed by
Southwick and Hardcastle,
1805.
8vo. 120 leaves, 16 diagrams, 8 folded forms.
Not in Sabin.
Catalogue of the Library of the U.S. Military Academy, no. 686.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author, who wrote from New York on July 30 1805: “Although hitherto unknown to you I shall use no apology for thus introducing myself. This accompanies a System of Military
Tactics which I have the honour to present to your Excellency for your consideration and if approven of by you, I shall feel
myself amply compensated for my trouble . . . I shall only ask your patronage to the work, and shall be happy on receiving
your opinion of it through any medium your Excellency shall think proper to communicate it . . .”
