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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Leather-bound spine. A few small marks and scores on boards. Spine ends and leading corners are worn and rubbed. Orange paint across spine foot. Embossed library stamps on front endpaper and title page. Library stamps on title page and at one or two further points. Residue from a library label on rear endpaper. One or two small marks and some tanning in the volume. One or two marks on page block. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Contents are clear. AF. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A naval history of the Second Ango-Chinese or Second Opium War a war between Qing China and the United Kingdom, France, Russia and the United States over many issues including the export of British manufactured goods, the importation of opium to China and resulting in Qing defeat.The history is told through the official documents of the Admiralty Includes 3*maps and 1*b/w illustration. xxii, 414, 6pp. Half-bound in blue buckram with ivory buckram to remainder. The Society's emblem in gilt to the upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Book, pages and text-block all in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Barrington (1729-1800) was an able officer who fought in, amongst others, the Seven Years War and American Revolution; he rose through the ranks after joining at eleven to become an Admiral. Includes a b/w frontispiece. Complete in two volumes, I-x, 46pp, II-xxxii, 378pp. Half-bound in blue buckram with cream buckram to remainder. Society's emblem in gilt to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Spine-strip sunned. Fore and lower page edges have been left untrimmed. Slight wear to extremities of boards. Surface imperfection across lower spine of Vol.I.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes bound in cream and brown colored buckram in VG+ condition. Internally clean, unmarked, hinges firm and corners just gently bumped. BP/British Naval History.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). First edition. A complete two volume set of this first edition copy of 'The Barrington Papers'; consisting of the letters, papers, and correspondence of Samuel Barrington. These works are volumes LXXVII and LXXXI of the 'Publications of the Navy Records Society'. The Navy Records society publish rare and original documents on naval history. It was established in 1893 and has to this day published over 160 volumes. Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key leaders who organised the society. This work was edited by the renowned historian of the Royal Navy David Bonner-Smith, who served as the Admiralty Librarian from 1932 to 1950. Samuel Barrington was a renowned British admiral who served as the commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station from 1788. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven (and before the age of twenty was promoted to post captain), and had a long and illustrious career in the Navy during the Seven Years War. This work contains an array of Barrington's papers: order books , a private letter book, his journal and three bound documents relating to the Leeward Islands command, some loose correspondence, general sailing and fighting instructions, two signal books, and instructions. Unfortunately none of Barrington"s public letter books survives. With a portrait frontispiece and a folding plate to volume I, and a folding map to volume II. In a quarter navy blue cloth binding with white buckram over boards. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to extremities and slight bumping to head of spines. Slight fading to spine, more severe to volume I. The odd light mark to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but bright and clean with only the odd spot, heavier to first and last few pages. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.