Book Details

Book Reference:	26046
Author:	STEVENS (Captain John Harvey)
Title:	Some Description of the Methods used in Pointing Guns at Sea.
Price:	£845.00
Year:
Description:	John Murray. 1834. First Edition, vi,[7]-45,[3]pp., 13 illustrations on 4 plates, with the Royal Naval College withdrawal label, full cont. navy blue morocco, tooled in blind with decorative gilt borders to covers, with a centrepiece of the Royal Crest of William IV stamped in gilt, spine and extremities rubbed, but a very nice copy, a.e.g. A rare work written “for the use of young officers in the Royal Navy during some part of their first two years’ service on board ship”.—Preface.
Subjects:	Antiquarian | Bookbinding | Naval