Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy
MAHAN, Alfred T.
With some Account of the Conditions of Naval Warfare at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and of its subsequent Development during the Sail Period. [First UK Edition.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
Published: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1902.
Stock code: 46192
Price: £114.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in red), 5 plates of portraits (all original tissue guards captioned in red) and full-page plan, neat inscription on blank preliminary recto; original navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, hand-made endpapers, a bright, clean copy.
Collects essays on Hawke, Rodney, Howe, Jervis, Saumarez and Pellew. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Hattendorf A10b.