[Rarebooks] FS: 1861 Legal & Technical Military Dictionary

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Scott, H.L. (Henry Lee). MILITARY DICTIONARY: COMPRISING TECHNICAL 
DEFINITIONS; INFORMATION ON RAISING AND KEEPING TROOPS; ACTUAL 
SERVICE, INCLUDING MAKESHIFTS AND IMPROVED MATERIEL; AND LAW, 
GOVERNMENT, REGULATION, AND ADMINISTRATION RELATING TO LAND FORCES. 
New York / London: D. Van Nostrand Company / Trubner and Co., 1861. 
674 pp. Illus. with 236 b/w drawings + tables and charts. 8vo. 
Pebbled cloth with marbled edges and endpapers (hardback). First 
edition. A gift to the Commandery from D. Van Nostrand.

Henry Lee Scott (1814-1886) "saw a gap in the literature of the 
military, and sought to fill it with this dictionary of truly varied 
information relating to all aspects of the military. Not limited to 
legal information, the volume is comprised of definitions relating to 
'law, government, regulation, and administration.' Including such 
general information as a recipe for shoe-black and long-winded 
recommendations for selecting a good horse, the work is much more 
than strictly a law dictionary. However, Scott devoted a good portion 
of the work to definitions and critical examples of oaths, mutinies, 
courts- martial, courts of inquiry, etc. The definitions are clearly 
written for practical purposes, in simple language. In his brief, 
otherwise quite ordinary preface, Scott added an interesting aside 
referring obliquely to the beginning of the American Civil War in 
1861, the year of this book's publication: 'It is only deemed 
necessary to add, that the work was not prepared in view of existing 
disturbances, but was begun some years ago'," (Tarlton Law Lib, Univ. 
Texas).

Joints and spine scuffed else a very good copy, with the bookplate of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker 
on foot of backstrip, their stamp on title and occasional leaf, 
several leaves chipped at tip of corner from prior folding otherwise 
binding tight, leaves quite sharp.  [31688] $400.00

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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East Jewett, NY 12424
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