or the service afloat and ashore; with characteristic reminiscences, fragments and opinions on professional, colonial, and political subjects.
by An Officer of Rank. second edition.
[Glascock, Capt. W.N.]
London, Henry Colburn, 1826.
2 volumes.. ppxxiv 284, iv 304. half-titles bound in.
apart from a little staining to the first few pages of volume one, good clean condition set in the original boards.
but the boards are detached from volume one, the spines badly worn, and the binding broken on volume two. would be suitable set for rebinding.
published in the same year as the first, this is second edition of this popular early 19th century book of wide-ranging naval reminiscences and information, by the author of the later "Naval Officer's Manual".
