Lives of the British Admirals: Containing an Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods. Continued to the Year 1779 by Dr. Berkenhout. A New Edition, revised and corrected, and brought down to the Present Time, by Henry Redhead Yorke.
London: Barrington, 1812.
8 volumes. Small 4tos, original blue paper marbled boards with paper spine labels (bindings are well-rubbed and with some chipping at ends and cracking at outer joints). All volumes have copper engraved frontispiece portraits with offsetting on each title page. The text blocks are near fine all with uncut edges. London: C. J. Barrington, 1812-1817. Overall a very good sound set.
Best Edition, down to the Expedition against Algiers in 1816. Campbell's work, originally published between 1742 and 1744, was subsequently revised, expanded, and condensed in various editions issued up to a hundred years after his death in 1775.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Language: English
Price: $700.00
Item #295163