1627 Soldiers Grammar 1ed Markham WAR Battle Formation Weapons Military Tactics

1627 Soldiers Grammar 1^ed Markham WAR Battle Formation Weapons Military Tactics

 

Gervase Markham, a 17^th-century English poet, was a well-known horse trainer and breeder. However, aside from his poems and books on horses, Markham published a military training manual for soldiers – ‘The Soldiers Grammar’. This work provided instructions for soldiers and officers alike with specific direction given on:

• Military surgeons and medical operations
• Drummers and musicians in military bands
• Directions for quarter-masters
• Army treasurers on finances
• Politics of battle
• Battle formation – varieties and shapes, purposes
  • The windmill battle formation for 50,000 men and horses
• Understanding opinions of new soldiers and old soldiers
• Battle ground observations

 

This 1627 first edition of Markham’s “Second part of the Soldiers Grammar” is considerably valuable, much in part to the exquisite folding plates and woodcut illustrations of battle formations. The folding engraving depicting weapon spacing is especially noteworthy.

 

Item number: #24821

Price: $2500

 

MARKHAM, Gervase

 

The second part of the soldiers grammar: or a schoole for young soldiers Especially for all such as are called to any place, or office

 

London: Printed [by A. Mathewes] for Hugh Perry, 1627. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [6], 67 (i.e., 59), [1]
• References: STC 17392
  • Printer’s name from STC
  • only 2 recorded copies of this work according to STC
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13cm)
• EXCEEDINGLY RARE and desirable

 

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