Unrecorded Military Manual, Signed

(MILITARY MANUAL). DE LACROIX, COL. IRENEE AMELOT. Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise and Manoeuvres of the French Infantry, Issued August 1, 1794. Abridged. And all the Manoeuvres Added, which Have Been Since Adopted by the Emperor Napoleon. In Two Volumes. The second volume to consist of Plates. Boston: Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Co., 1809. 1st ed. 12mo. 69 pp. Uncut, becoming disbound. Volume one, only. $475.00

Not recorded in the Imprints Survey or NUC. With the author's ink signature of authentication on the copyright page (verso of title). The second volume was, evidently, only to contain six plates. With an introduction probably by the American publisher. Nothing by the author in Karpinski & Spaulding (before 1800).