8vo. [4], 111pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's brown cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Wm. T. Markham to FEP and head of title page, scattered foxing.

The second edition in English, printed in the year after the first, of Baron Reichlin von Meldegg's (1766-1838) treatise on army manoeuvres, originally published in German in Munich in 1818.

William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), British Army officer, sometime Lieutenant Rifle Brigade, Lieutenant and Captain Coldstream Guards. During the Crimean War (1854-1856) he fought at the Battle of the Alma, the Siege of Sevastopol, and with the expedition to Kertch.