Item #:40910
Lives of the British Admirals Containing Also a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods… Continued to the Year 1779…
Campbell, John.
C.J. Barrington, ( 1812-1817), London
Eight volumes. Various paginations. b/w plates.
Price: $350
Lives of the British Admirals Containing Also a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods… Continued to the Year 1779…
Campbell, John.
C.J. Barrington, ( 1812-1817), London
Eight volumes. Various paginations. b/w plates.
Price: $350
Campbell’s “Lives” was first published in 1742-1744. After his death the work was continued and brought up to date in subsequent editions. This is the best edition. It carries the history through the War of 1812, up to the expedition against Algiers in 1816.. It also contains a 75 page glossary of nautical terms and tables of vessels. “It was a great improvement on previous compilations of the kind.” – DNB. A very serviceable set, bound in later green cloth with gold spine lettering. Scattered foxing and offsetting of portrait plates. 8 vols.
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