Price: £600
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1809
Stock Number: 53826
(Your basket is currently empty)Respectfully dedicated to the Officers of His Majesty's Royal Navy and Royal Marine Forces.
Description: FIRST EDITION, lacking half-title, a little browned, some damp-staining in the fore-margins, pp. [iii-] xx, 164, small 8vo, contemporary calf, rebackedPublication Details: Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, 1809
Notes: An eulogy of the Senior Service, with plenty of detail, including an Index of Words, Terms, and Nautical Phrases, and an Explanation of the ranks of the Navy, and the anatomy of a ship. The Preface contains a heart-felt plea for the improvement of Naval pay. There are half a dozen copies in US libraries recorded by WorldCat, but in COPAC there is but one, Bodleian Library.
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