The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Rodger N.A.M.
Collins,
1987
The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Rodger N.A.M.
Collins,
1987
64.40 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1987
- Author
- Rodger N.A.M.
- Publishers
- Collins
- Keyword
- naval, to 1914, royal navy, georgian navy, rodger
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., Second Impression, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper plans, neat signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. 'Impeccably researched, carefully argued and brilliantly original'. A major contribution to the history of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
