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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. Hood was a noted Royal Navy commander who rose to Admiral. During the years covered he was in near constant battle during the American Revolution and the Caribbean against French fleets, gaining notable victories and stalemates against superior forces on several occasions. xlviii, 170, iipp. Half-bound in blue buckram with cream buckram to remainder. Society's emblem in gilt to upper boar and gilt lettering to spine. Cream buckram heavily soiled. Corners turned. Preliminary pages toned. Ex-library (of the Essex Institute, now Anglia Ruskin University) with labels to lower spine and front pastedown.…

First Edition. Very good copy in contemporary white cloth boards, backed with black cloth, and both gilt-blocked. Boards somewhat foxed and dust-dulled, with endbands slightly rubbed. Text edges and prelims lightly dust-dulled, with the interior remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Series; Publications of the Navy Records Society ; v. 3. Physical description; xlvii, 170 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount (1724-1816) Correspondence. Admirals Great Britain Correspondence 18th century. Great Britain History, Naval 18th century Sources. 18th century. 19th century (edition). Portraits. Frontispiece. Letters. Naval history. Sources. Logs. 1 Kg.…