ARMY LIST.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines; Late 18th-century edition, in an attractive binding. Army lists were published annually by the War Office between 1754 and 1879, giving the names of officers and their dates of commission. The fore-edge painting, executed at a later date, shows Broadway and New York City Hall, based on an etching by Carl Fredrik Akrell after a drawing by Baron Axel Leonard Klinckowström.Provenance: Alexander Adair (d.1834), with his armorial bookplate. Adair was the great grandson of Sir Robert Adair of Ballymena and inherited the family estate at Flixton Hall in 1783. In 1805 he raised and commanded the 9th Troop of Suffolk Yeomanry. One "Mr Adair", army agent at Pall Mall, is listed on Page 73. The same page features numerous ink corrections to the list.

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