The Naval History of Great Britain from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV
( ROYAL NAVY ) JAMES, William
A New Edition, with Additions and Notes, and an Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino, by Captain Chamier.
BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
Published: Richard Bentley, 1837
Stock code: 34059
Price: £394.00
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 6 engraved portrait frontispieces, 19 engraved portraits, numerous diagrams in the text and 28 folding abstracts, some light and inoffensive age-staining; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, marbled boards, backs with raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartments with red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, fourth compartments ruled and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, three volumes expertly rebacked to style with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
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