Lot 57
  • 57

Military Regulations.

Estimate
4,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of eighteenth-century manuscript volumes, comprising:
  • ink on paper
1) Reglement vor Die Königl. Preuss. Dragoner Regimenter, c.500 pages, folio, ownership inscription to title ("...Hardenberg"), eighteenth-century half calf, mid-18th century; 2) Reglement vor Die Königl. Preussische Infanterie, over 400 pages, folio, eighteenth-century half calf, no place or date, mid-18th century; 3) Römisch-Kayserlicher Dienst-Verhalt Im Felde und Garnisons von der Infanterie Vor Officiers, Unter-Officiers und Gemeine, 398, [7] pages, folio, eighteenth-century half calf, mid-18th century; 4) Reglement von der Hessen-Casselschen Infanterie, folio, 361 pages, plus unpaginated index, contemporary calf, eighteenth century; 5) Neues Reglement der Exercice zu Pferde wie solches...lauth ergangener Ordre vom 3ten Aug: 1733 bey des Herren General Major von Wendt Dragoner Regiment zu verrichten ist, 159 pages, folio, signed on p.158 ( "...Hardenberg"), calf, c.1733; 6) Anmerkung von Herren-Dienst im Feldt, 534 pages plus unpaginated index, folio, contemporary vellum, ties, eighteenth century; 7) Dienst Verhalt in Felde und Guarnison Von der Infanterie Vor Officiers, Unter-Officiers und Gemeine, unpaginated, small 4to, paper wrappers, first half of the eighteenth century; 8) Exercitium zu Pferdte, c.260 unnumbered pages, 8vo, bookplate of Philipp Joseph Graf von Thörring, vellum, 18th century; 9) Reglement Über den Anzug, die Anlegung der Equipage, die Zeichnung aller Stücke, und die Pferde-Wartung beim 1ten Cavallerie Regiment in Juny 1798, 67 leaves, 8vo, contemporary half calf, Bissendorf, c.1798; and four others (13)

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