The Bombardier, and Pocket Gunner,
Adye, Ralph Willett.
E. Larkin, ( 1804), Boston
12mo. (13), vi, (7)-277 pp.
Price: $1000
First American, from the second London edition. A pocket field guide for artillery officers, arranged alphabetically by topic. With geometrical diagrams and many tables in the text for ballistic ranges, ammunition requirements, company rations, etc. This copy has early marginal notations and two hand written notes laid in, pertaining to rations and to “ballistics of a 16 pounder.” The front free endpaper bears the inscription “Stephen Longfellow, Jr. with the regards of P. H. Greenleaf Mar.1828.” Stephen Longfellow’s ownship signature appears at the top of the title page. Stephen Longfellow was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s younger brother. Bound in contemporary calf binding, worn and scuffed, hinges weak. Housed in clamshell box with leather label.