The Naval History of Great Britain
( ROYAL NAVY ) JAMES, William
from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV. A New Edition, with Additions and Notes, and an Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino, by Captain Chamier.
BRIGHT WORKING SET IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
Published: Insel Leipzig, [1939]
Stock code: 34059
Price: £364.00
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 flat bands lettered and numbered in gilt, red edges, three volumes expertly rebacked to style with old backstrips laid down, a good, bright, firm copy.
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