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Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 278 pages. Further Reading, Index. Extensively illustrated with maps, portraits and engravings in color and black and white. Decorative map end-papers. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. A history of Great Britain’s nascent naval power, developing not from direct government sponsorship in the form of an organized fleet, but rather the individual, albeit backed and financed through Royal patronage, exploits of individuals such as Drake, Hawkins, Grenville and Raleigh. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.