The Navy in the Civil War. The Gulf and Inland Waters
MAHAN, Alfred T.
[First UK Edition. ]
NEAR FINE RNSC PRESENTATION COPY OF MAHAN'S FIRST BOOK
Published: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1898
Stock code: 49424
Price: £94.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 8 maps (3 folding), free endpapers very faintly spotted; navy cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy.
FIRST UK EDITION OF MAHAN'S FIRST BOOK. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL NAVAL STAFF COLLEGE WITH ITS CANCELLED BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Albion notes that this work, together with Soley's 'The Blockage and the Cruisers' comprised Scribner's series 'The Navy in the Civil War', the last general operational coverage until the mid-twentieth century. Albion, p.259; Hattendorf A1d.