Description

Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 430pp., Index. First edition, first printing. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. A popular history linking the success of the Royal Navy with the commercial and territorial expansion of the British Empire. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.