Letter Signed, as Military Secretary, to E.Bacon, Hackney, saying that his letter has been referred to the Commanding Officer of the 74th Regiment, about the sale of an Ensigncy “being sold for your benefit, in lieu of the one in succession to your late Son” by TORRENS, Major-General Sir Henry

He writes "Sir, Should yr R.H. not go to the play on Saturday may I request that your box at Covent Garden for Lady Torrens." The writer identified in ink in an early hand at upper margin. traces of mounting to blank.

London: William Clowes, 1824. Hardcover. Fair. xvi, 335 p. 22 cm. 12 fold-out plates at rear. Original publisher's binding. Front board detached and front free endpaper nearly so. Plates and rear board also nearly detached. Spine deteriorated with chipped head and numerous cracks. Ink note and soiling to boards. Worn edges. Ink signature on front pastedown. Some foxing to first pages. Overall, a complete and neat text block in need of rebinding. Torrens was Adjutant-General to the Forces.

London: William Clowes, 1824. Octavo. Revised by the present author upon King's orders. xvi, 335pp., including index, (12) folding plates. The King had decided since it had been over 33 years, it was time to update General Sir David Dundas' System of Tactics as it was due for improvements. It was a time of peace and therefore, it was deemed necessary to take advantage of reestablishing uniformity by prescribing to the Army a more regulated system. It also contains an updated (4)pp. of musical scores of the bugle sounds. These changes would combine Dundas' work along with additional formations. These improvements would be followed by all in the Army. A very clean bright copy without foxing, a bit of off-setting to edges of title page from binder's glue or the leather turn-ins. Bound in full contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spine laid down retaining original endpapers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, upper corners of both boards is missing a small… Read More

Saint John. Printed by Henry Chubb, Market-Square. 1827. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, vii,159,xxviiip., folding sheet of music for the melody "Bugle Sounds", original boards, later velum spine, modern paper label, varying degrees of foxing, small circular stain appears on two pages, scarce, our first copy. (cgc) With: Autograph Signed Letter of Major General Sir Henry Torrens. 1816. One page, docketed leaf. Dated House Guards. 29th June 1816. Documents arranging a pension for Helen Fraser. Very good. Sir Henry Torrens was born at Londonderry, Ireland in 1779. He was educated at a Dublin military academy and received his first military commission at the age of 14 when he was made an ensign in the 52nd Regiment of Foot. He served in Portugal (1798), in Holland (1799), and later in Nova Scotia, Egypt and India. He saw action in 1799 at the battles of Hoorne and Egmond van Zee and was wounded at the latter. The regiment he commanded in Nova Scotia was the Surrey Rangers, which he did for one year before… Read More