[MILITARIA]. Early volumes related to military tactics and discipline.

BLAND, Lieutenant-Colonel 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. London: Printed for Sam. Buckley and Sold by Knapton, et al., 1734. Third edition. Octavo. [xxxii], 360 pages. With seven folding engraved plates illustrating battle plans. Inscribed on title page "Lewis Cutler's Book." (Rear board completely detached.)

LA VALLIERE, Francois de La Baume Le Blanc. The Art of War, Containing, The Duties of All Military Officers in Actual Service; Including Necessary Instructions, in Many Capital Matters, by the Knowledge of Which, a Man May Soon Become an Ornament to the Profession of Arms. Written by Monsieur De Lamont, Town Major of Toulon. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, in Third Street, 1776. 264pp. (Missing title page.)

[With:] Two titles, one incomplete, possibly a portion of WINDHAM, William. A Plan of Exercise, for the Militia of Massachusetts-Bay: Extracted for the Plan of Discipline for the Norfolk Militia. Boston: Printing Office in Newbury Street, 1774. (Heavy wear, toning, dampstaining). -- TURNER, Rev. Joseph Brown, editor. "The Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware Regiment of the Continental Line." Part I and Part II. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1910. From Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware LVI. (Heavy wear to wraps, toning, dampstaining, chipping.)

William L. Taylor

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