The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII, 5 volumes, 1st edition, C. Rice, 1823-5, 10 mezzotint portraits including frontispieces, 3 stipple-engraved portrait plates, 9 lithographic views, 9 lithographic or engraved maps and plans (most of them folding), 1 engraved folding plate of the British fleet at Trafalgar, 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, 2 folding letterpress tables, list of subscribers, errata and directions to the binder and errata leaves to each volume (no errata in volume 4, probably as issued), frontispieces and engraved folding plates variably browned and offset, bookplates of ecclesiastical and maritime lawyer Augustus Gostling (1782-1849), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style in sheep retaining old spine-labels, sides slightly rubbed, 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), together with 'Addenda to the Naval History of Great Britain by Captain E. P. Brenton', 1827, 8 pp. pamphlet, stitched in plain paper wrappers, manuscript title on front wrapper, 8vo Sabin 7726 for the 1837 edition (erroneously dating the first edition to 1822); not in Abbey Life. The lithographs are from Brenton's own drawings and include views of St Lucia, Quiberon Bay, Bantry Bay, St John's harbour in Newfoundland, and elsewhere. (5)
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII, 5 volumes, 1st edition, C. Rice, 1823-5, 10 mezzotint portraits including frontispieces, 3 stipple-engraved portrait plates, 9 lithographic views, 9 lithographic or engraved maps and plans (most of them folding), 1 engraved folding plate of the British fleet at Trafalgar, 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, 2 folding letterpress tables, list of subscribers, errata and directions to the binder and errata leaves to each volume (no errata in volume 4, probably as issued), frontispieces and engraved folding plates variably browned and offset, bookplates of ecclesiastical and maritime lawyer Augustus Gostling (1782-1849), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style in sheep retaining old spine-labels, sides slightly rubbed, 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), together with 'Addenda to the Naval History of Great Britain by Captain E. P. Brenton', 1827, 8 pp. pamphlet, stitched in plain paper wrappers, manuscript title on front wrapper, 8vo Sabin 7726 for the 1837 edition (erroneously dating the first edition to 1822); not in Abbey Life. The lithographs are from Brenton's own drawings and include views of St Lucia, Quiberon Bay, Bantry Bay, St John's harbour in Newfoundland, and elsewhere. (5)
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