[Rarebooks] FS: 1874 ARTILLERY, INFANTRY, AND CAVALRY TACTICS

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

United States Army. Upton, Emory. ARTILLERY TACTICS UNITED STATES 
ARMY, ASSIMILATED TO THE TACTICS OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY [WITH] 
CAVALRY TACTICS [WITH] INFANTRY TACTICS DOUBLE AND SINGLE RANK. 
ADAPTED TO AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHY AND IMPROVED FIRE-ARMS [THREE 
VOLUMES]. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874. 582 pp.; 530 pp.; 
viii, 445 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings and musical scores. 32mo. 
Original pebbled morocco (in red, orange, and blue), gilt titles and 
emblems on front board, with brass clasps (hardback). First editions 
(Infantry is first thus). Signed by (on two) and gift of Capt. Hough 
D. Bowker of the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Having decided to make its manuals of tactics for the three arms of 
the service uniform in 1874, the Army published these three volumes; 
Artillery Tactics (in red), the Cavalry (in orange), and the revised 
edition of the standard infantry tactics by Upton (in blue). OCLC 
show 5 copies of Artillery, 13 of Cavalry, and 29 of Infantry. 
Complete sets are uncommon. Spines sunned and worn at head and heel, 
edges rubbed, front board a bit tender on one volume, all with the 
bookplates of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns, 
shelf stickers on foot of backstrip, bindings solid, clasps still 
working, with rear pin replaced on one. Good to very good copies. 
[31661] $600.00 

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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