THE NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE YEAR 1783-1786

Edward Pelham Brenton, Henry Colburn, London, 1837, 2 vols, engraved frontispieces (William IV and the author), 13 portraits, mostly mezzotints, 5 folding plans (one with a short tear) and 2 plates, one folding (a little foxing), 20^th century morocco-backed cloth -- 8½ x 5in. (22 x 13 cm.); together with Brackenbury, G: The Campaign in the Crimea, P and D Colnaghi, 1855, 2 vols, in one, lithographed titles and 78 tinted lithographed plates only (of 84?), contemporary hard grain half Morocco, gilt spine (hinges a little rubbed; The Fighting at Jutland, The Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet, No publisher, [?1920], plates, many mounted, and numerous illustrations, original cloth (spine rubbed); Brackenbury, H: The River Column, 1885; Seddel, H: Malta Past and Present (1870); Dixon, D: The King’s Sailing Master (1948)

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Royal Naval Club & Royal Albert Yacht Club, Portsmouth

Condition Report

Brackenbury: title of vol. 1 detached, some foxing and soiling

Malta: Spine detached, loose pages

The River Column: Spine broken and lacking cover

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