Description: Instruction for Field Artillery Prepared by a Board of Artillery Officers, J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1861, 348 pp, eighty-eight plates, publisher’s blind cloth, 8 x 5.5”, 8vo. In good condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to corners and edges. Repairs made at front board top edge via a small patch. Front joints have two points of repair at head and base of spine. Small splits at the front joint were repairs made. Head and tail chipped with loss. Modest soiling to surface of cloth. Small patches of dampness staining to top edges of text block and front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout with scattered instances of foxing. Fore edge foxed moderately. Free of known ownership or marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. An important military treasure on the use of artillery published at the dawn of the American Civil War. Contents include tactical instruction, schools of the piece, section, battery, organization, materiel, and service. Henry J. Hunt, one of the book’s authors, was chief of artillery for the Army of the Potomac, and was considered one of the war’s premier tacticians and strategists. RAREA1861EMOW
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Author: William H. French
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
Subject: Military & War
Original/Facsimile: Original