Letter from the Barrack-Master General to Barrack Masters [bound with] A Warrant for the Regulation of Barracks.

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8vo.[2], 32, [8]pp; [4], 42, [1],[12]pp, 16 folding tables. [London?]. Fine contemporary calf, original red title label on upper board. A rare survival of a pocket book designed for everyday reference in the barracks. ESTC N472013 . Neither item notes an author, but in the first item De Lancey has signed' his printed letter at page 32. The plans provide barrack masters with suitable templates for recording and dealing with everything from 'forage to horses', 'return of barrack bedding', barrack inspections, and 'receipts and expenditure'. De Lancey was the son of a British army officer of the same name born into a colonial New York state family, who fought at the Battle of Brooklyn and ended the Revolutionary War as Adjutant-General to the British army at New York. Rare in Fine condition. N° de ref. del artículo 1679

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