Instructions for military training and deployment [manuscript], 16?
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Instructions for military training and deployment [manuscript], 16?
Created/published
England, 16?
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50 p.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England
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Call number
FAST ACC 271750 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Ordered from:Christopher Edwards, D9269, 2019-11-19 at Sotheby's Auction "The Cottesloe Military Library", November 19, 2019, Lot 126. From dealer's description: "DRILL AND MILITARY TRAINING Instructions for military training and deployment. Early seventeenth century manuscript in English in a single secretary hand, comprising "Brefe instructions ... Concerninge the ... handling of the pike for the yonge or untrained souldier", similar instructions for the musket and caliver, "Instructions from Sir Francis Veare given Before Plimoth", rules "for the redye Impaling of a quadrant square" and for establishing the number of men required for military formations, "Breefe Instructions ... how to imbattell men so as Every Captaine May Lede his owne Company", instructions for the calculations of ensigns and the ordering of men into ranks, and instructions for pitching camp, contemporary foliation, 150 pages, 8vo, contemporary calf with gilt border and cornerpieces and centrepiece stamps of the Stuart royal arms, edges gilt, rebacked with new endpapers, light staining to some leaves [with:] notes and transcriptions by Thomas, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, loosely inserted AN EARLY STUART DRILL BOOK. A copy of Eikon Basilike (1649) with the same gilt stamp of the Stuart royal arms was in the library of Robert S. Pirie (Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 2015, lot 161). PROVENANCE: Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer, secretary to the Society of Antiquaries 1784-1806, his bookplate; Thomas Thorpe, bookdealer (MS 1004); sold in 1836 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 9623); sale, Sotheby's, 11 November 1946, lot 146, to Robinson." Ordered from: Christopher Edwards, D9269, 2019-11-19 at Sotheby's Auction "The Cottesloe Military Library", November 19, 2019, Lot 126.
Folger accession
271750