Buy this book on-line Robert Greenhalgh Albion Ph.D : FOREST AND SEA POWER : The Timber Problem of The Royal Navy 1652 - 1862Harvard University Press, Cambridge , MA, 1926
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1926, Cranberry cloth hardcover, 485 page book. Lacks the publishers dust wrapper.Red cloth well rubbed , spine well faded with gilt stamped lettering quite dulled, top edge of front and rear boards show fadding. Glue residue from removed bookplate still present on the front pastedown. Frontispiece. Appendices . Bibliography. Index. Volume XXIX in the Harvard Economic Studies. FOREST AND SEA POWER was the first extensive study of the relationship between the British Navy's shortage of suitable ship timber and Britain's foreign policy and colonial expansionism during the seventeeth to eighjteenth centuries. , most notably Paul Walden Bamford's FOREST AND FRENCH SES POWER 1660 - 1789, none match Albion's insight and his book remains among the most highly regarded naval and military history titles. Quite scarce and rare and very uncommon .. Illustr.: Author. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Robert Greenhalgh Albion Ph.D : FOREST AND SEA POWER : The Timber Problem of The Royal Navy 1652 - 1862. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, antiquarian books, livres rares, used books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |