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Reconnaissance and scouting: a practical course of instruction, in twenty plain lessons, for officers, non-commissioned officers, and men . With plates.
BADEN-POWELL, Robert Stephenson SmythBook Description
  • Binding:Hardcover
  • Condition:Very Good
  • Publisher:William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London
  • Publication Date:1884
  • Edition:1st Edition

8vo (162 x 102 mm). vii (i.e., viii), 52 pp., text illustrations, 9 plates and maps (of which 4 folding). Original publisher\'s reg cloth, front boards gilt lettered (minor dust soiling, front board somewhat stained and spotted). Text and plates crisp and clean with little age-toning only. Provenance: Victor Le Gay Brereton* (inscribed on first flyleaf). ---- VERY, EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Baden-Powell\'s precursor treatise of the boy scouting movement. We do not know of any other copy that have come to market.

OCLC lists 7 copies in public institutions: 2 in the UK (British Library, National Library of Scotland) and 5 in the USA (Boston Univ. Libraries, Harvard Univ., Yale Beinecke Library, US Army War College, US Army Field Artillery School).



This book is autographed and signed belonging toVictor Le Gay Brereto, Lt. Col. in the 1st Regiment of the N.S.W.

*Victor Le Gay Brereton (1865-1941) was an Australian lawyer in Sydney, specialising in military and conveyancing law. In 1883, he was commissioned in the first New South Wales Infantry Regiment, and was made a lieutenant colonel in 1916, so that he could preside at courts-martial and military courts for prisoners of war. He became deputy Judge Advocate General in 1918 and Judge Advocate General three years later.



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