The Royal Navy. A History from the Earliest Times to the Present. Assisted by Sir Clements Markham Captain A.T. Mahan H.W. Wilson Theodore Roosevelt ... etc. Vols I-IV only.

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London: Sampson Low Marston and Co. 1897-1899. Sm. thick 4to. Uniformly bound in orig. full navy cloth with gilt insignia on front cover of each volume. Spines gilt titled. A small paper label at foot of each spine with an old inked number. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. With 20 full-page photo-gravure plates each with its orig. tissue-guard 49 full-page plates and numerous text-illusts. Title-pages printed in red/black ink. Some foxing and some rubbing on covers otherwise contents fine. The bookplate of Thos. Welsby Brisbane inside each front cover.