Royal Navy. Clerk (John, of Eldin, Fellow of the Scottish So...

Royal Navy. Clerk (John, of Eldin, Fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh), An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical. With Explanatory Plates, four parts, second edition, first collected trade edition thus, Edinburgh: Printed for Archd. Constable & Co., London: T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804, half-title, complete, collating: [vi], xv, [1] (blank), [vii]-xv, [1] (binder's direction), [5]-287, [1]pp (blank), illustrated with 52 partially hand-coloured plates as called for, of which Plate I: Part II bound upside down and prematurely out of sequence at p. 165 rather than 172, contemporary speckled calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, split, 4to Provenance: Henry Hammond (1786-1860), of Albury Park, Surrey, banker and politician; his armorial bookplate.

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