The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by RODGER N.A.M
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Collins,, [1987]. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18004
- Title
- The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- RODGER N.A.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins,
- Date Published
- [1987]
- Keywords
- naval, to 1914, royal navy, georgian navy, rodger
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