Buy this book on-line HODGES, H.W & HUGHES, A.E - Edited by: : Select Naval DocumentsUK.CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS,1927.
UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,rpt.[1st edn,first publication was 1922.]VG+.No owner name, but neat,ink,stamped oval Armed Service's
library stamp 'Wardroom HMS Dryad Library'
to front pastedown,no other library marks
or numerals anywhere else to the book,and
minus the dw/dj.Generally clean, publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth
boards with bright (non-oxidised),crisp, blocked Naval anchor+twining rope device/
design to upper board and bright (again non-oxidised),crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Miniscule rubbing to all corners and to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip also.Top edge slightly aged/ darkened - minimally dust-soiled(?) - fore-edges brighter and cleaner with light sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight and clean.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,rpt, vi-xiipp+1-227pp [paginated] includes preface,contents+illus/plates lists/tables, abbreviations,4 b/w plates,4 b/w illus/ diagrams,9 parts/sections comprising 145 extracts,an index; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,and half-title+title pages.
A collection of documents reflecting important stages in naval history over the
years.Includes extracts from writings by Drake, Hawke, Nelson, Ralegh and many others,inlcuding much from Admiral R. Kempenfeldt.Subjects include the Armament of the fighting ship Sovereign in 1497, much on the Elizabethan navy and their battles with the Spanish galleons,the Royal Navy in action in American waters in the 17th and 18th Centuries,etc.The papers here printed may be divided into two classes.The first class consists of documents,such as the Fighting Instructions and the Trafalgar Memorandum,which are of great importance in themselves,and which have been frequently
reprinted at length,but not in a single volume:most of these are here reprinted by
kind permission of the Navy Records Society,to whose volumes this book is intended to be an elementary introduction,
and without which its compilation could not have been attempted.Where there is no locus classicus, we have tried to choose the more lively and less accessible illustrations. Many of the passages in this class appear in print for the first time.
An excellent and brilliant resource for background to British naval history.
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