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[DOUGLAS ( John )]

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[DOUGLAS ( John )]

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[DOUGLAS ( John )]. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace ; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Dublin : Printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1760FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, pp (2), 41, with half-title, 8vo, recent wraps : nice,fresh copyAn important pamphlet, once attributed to Pulteney, strongly recommending peace with France and the importance of requiring from her all of Canada, Guadaloupe and Senegal. It prompted Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet 'The Interest of Great Britain considered'. This Dublin edition is uncommon : there was also an edition published at Cork in the same year.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) HUTTON ( Henry Dix ). Modern Warfare : its positive theory and true policy. With an application to the Russian War, and an answer to the question - "What shall we do?" John Chapman … , 1855. FIRST EDITION, pages 73, (1), and advert leaf, 8vo, recent wrapper : some light fingering and the advert leaf with two small punctures with only slight loss : a very good copy.An expansion of a paper read before the 'Statistical Society of Dublin', here with a new nine-page preface. (2) [PULTENEY ( Wm. ), Earl of Bath]. A Proper Answer to the By-Stander. Wherein is shewn I. That there is no necessity for, but infallible ruin in the maintenance of a large regular (or mercenary) land force in this island … III. That publick credit is now upon a more stable foundation … and can be ruined by nothing but bad oeconomy, temporary expedients, and loss of trade. … Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (2), 78, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy.Hanson 5646. Variously attributed to Pulteney and to Corbyn Morris. (3) TORRENS ( Sir Henry ). Field exercises and evolutions of the army. As revised by Major General Sir Henry Torrens … Printed and sold by William Clowes, 1824. FIRST EDITION THUS, with 12 folding engraved plates (2 misfolded and a little dusty in the fore-edge), pp xvi, 335, (1), 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: binding worn and chipped at headband but still very strong, otherwise a very good copy.Torrens's revision of the official Regulations for the Exercise and Field Movements of the Infantry was intended to consolidate, not innovate and incorporated changes made by regiments during the war so that drill would again be uniform. It retained repetitive movements and long words of command, and its main provision was for a line of two ranks, not three. It was criticized, and again revised in 1833. (4) TAILLEFER ( Nugent ). Rondeaus of the British Auxiliary Forces. Ninth edition. Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., 1883. Pages viii, 24, (50), 25 - 168, (2, adverts), 8vo, original red cloth : thr binding stained, but sound and strong and otherwise a clean and very good copy.The author, 'a rhymer, not a military man', a militia enthusiast, provides extensive personal comment to his collection of the songs of various militia and other auxiliary military forces.(5)ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; HISTORY; EUROPE; ENGLAND; MILITARY; CRIMEAN WAR; ECONOMICS; MILITARY REGULATIONS; SONGS; ;