The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812
MAHAN, Alfred T.
[First UK Edition].
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Published: Sampson Low Marston & Co., [1892]
Stock code: 48895
Price: £235.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 7 maps (one folding) and 6 battle-charts; original blue pictorial cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips chafed at heads and tails, hinges tender (but binding wholly sound), joints minimally rubbed, short split in upper joint of second volume else a bright, crisp copy.
With the fine coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Campbell Stuart on front paste-downs. The second of Mahan's three great historical surveys of 'sea power' (a term coined by Mahan) which taken together cover the period 1660-1812. 'A valuable work, much more so than his 'Life of Nelson' (1897)', Albion. Albion, pp. 211, 244; Hattendorf A4b; NMM V:I, 2163; Sandler 2197.