REVERE, PAUL]. MULLER, JOHN. A Treatise of Artillery: Containing... General Construction of brass and Iron Guns used by Sea and Land...Mortars and Howitze[r]s...To Which is Prefixed, A Theory of Powder applied to Fire-Arms...London: Millan n.d. [1757]. 8vo, original calf, covers and spine compartments gilt-ruled, the leather scuffed and worn, upper cover detached, shaken in binding, frontispiece lacking, strip at top of title torn away (slightly affecting several letters), M2 torn at bottom, plate XIV with detached corner attached with old pin, three other plates partly defective, spotting and other evidence of use . FIRST EDITION, 28 folding engraved plates of artillery design and gunnery; A Treatise of Artillery [title as the preceding], Philadelphia: Styner and Cist for John Norman 1779. 8vo, contemporary sheep, very worn, covers nearly detached, lacking plate XXII, other plates with minor defects, browned, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, dedication ("To his Excellency George Washington...General Henry Knox...and the Officers of the Continental Artillery," three folding tables, 31 (of 32) folding engraved plates (frontispiece, plates 1-28, three unnumbered folding engraved tables). Evans 16378; Sabin 51289; together two volumes, housed together in quarter brown morocco folding box . Sold as association copies, not subject to return. TWO ARTILLERY MANUALS WHICH BELONGED TO PAUL REVERE Two printings of a highly popular treatise on artillery and gunnery originally published "for the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery" and dedicated by Muller to Charles, Duke of Marlborough. The certainly unauthorized American reprint -- issued at the height of the Revolution -- is boldly dedicated by the engraver John Norman to General Washington and other officers of the American Continental Army. Both copies once belonged to Paul Revere (see provenance), and the first work is signed "Paul Revere" on the inside front cover (twice), the title-page, at the head of the dedication and at the top of p. [xi]. The text has been corrected in several places (pp. 16, 18, 155), probably in Revere's hand, and a small marginal diagram has been added on page 35. Revere (1735-1818), a silver and metalsmith by trade, served as a Lieutenant of artillery in the 1756 Crown Point Expedition; in 1776 he joined the Boston militia, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and in late 1778 was put in charge of three Boston artillery companies. Provenance : 1. Paul Revere signed in four places 2. Paul Revere III, by descent (sale, Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., Hyannis Port, 12 August 1975) 3. Anonymous owner (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 February 1976, lot 324).
REVERE, PAUL]. MULLER, JOHN. A Treatise of Artillery: Containing... General Construction of brass and Iron Guns used by Sea and Land...Mortars and Howitze[r]s...To Which is Prefixed, A Theory of Powder applied to Fire-Arms...London: Millan n.d. [1757]. 8vo, original calf, covers and spine compartments gilt-ruled, the leather scuffed and worn, upper cover detached, shaken in binding, frontispiece lacking, strip at top of title torn away (slightly affecting several letters), M2 torn at bottom, plate XIV with detached corner attached with old pin, three other plates partly defective, spotting and other evidence of use . FIRST EDITION, 28 folding engraved plates of artillery design and gunnery; A Treatise of Artillery [title as the preceding], Philadelphia: Styner and Cist for John Norman 1779. 8vo, contemporary sheep, very worn, covers nearly detached, lacking plate XXII, other plates with minor defects, browned, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, dedication ("To his Excellency George Washington...General Henry Knox...and the Officers of the Continental Artillery," three folding tables, 31 (of 32) folding engraved plates (frontispiece, plates 1-28, three unnumbered folding engraved tables). Evans 16378; Sabin 51289; together two volumes, housed together in quarter brown morocco folding box . Sold as association copies, not subject to return. TWO ARTILLERY MANUALS WHICH BELONGED TO PAUL REVERE Two printings of a highly popular treatise on artillery and gunnery originally published "for the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery" and dedicated by Muller to Charles, Duke of Marlborough. The certainly unauthorized American reprint -- issued at the height of the Revolution -- is boldly dedicated by the engraver John Norman to General Washington and other officers of the American Continental Army. Both copies once belonged to Paul Revere (see provenance), and the first work is signed "Paul Revere" on the inside front cover (twice), the title-page, at the head of the dedication and at the top of p. [xi]. The text has been corrected in several places (pp. 16, 18, 155), probably in Revere's hand, and a small marginal diagram has been added on page 35. Revere (1735-1818), a silver and metalsmith by trade, served as a Lieutenant of artillery in the 1756 Crown Point Expedition; in 1776 he joined the Boston militia, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and in late 1778 was put in charge of three Boston artillery companies. Provenance : 1. Paul Revere signed in four places 2. Paul Revere III, by descent (sale, Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., Hyannis Port, 12 August 1975) 3. Anonymous owner (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 February 1976, lot 324).
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