Language: English
Published by The Navy Records Society, London, UK, 1943
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The correspondence of Napier who after a long career was recalled to command the Baltic Fleet of the Royal Navy, the largest created since the Napoleonic Wars and he successfully prevented the Russian Fleet from ever leaving port. Includes 5*maps and plans. 434pp, 6pp adverts. Half-bound in black cloth with cream cloth to the remainder. Gilt decoration to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Pages have been left untrimmed to the leading and lower edges. Spine cloth is lightly sunned. There is light shelf-wear to boards. The lower corners are lightly turned. There is light foxing to the preliminary pages, including the title page. Several pages remain unseparated to the upper edge. Text-block is tight and pages are in very good condition.
Language: English
Published by The Navy Records Society, London, UK, 1943
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes 5*maps. viii, 434pp. Quarter bound in blue buckram to spine and ivory buckram to remainder. Society's emblem in gilt to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Small dents to lower rear edge. Lower corners lightly bumped. Fore and lower page edges left untrimmed.