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The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe. First Edition with Hand-Colored Plates

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The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, James Ralfe

First edition of Ralfe's impressively detailed account of the British navy, drawing on firsthand interviews with officers and sailors as well as contemporary official naval records. Intended as a continuation of Captain Isaac Schomberg's Naval Chronology (1802) and organized chronologically by year, the work highlights key parliamentary proceedings related to naval affairs, lists the active flag officers, and provides thorough descriptions of naval battles and engagements, grouped by location. In three volumes and with hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispieces, with the headlines and captions printed in blue, which Abbey requires for "genuine coloured copies" (Abbey Life, 342; Sabin, 67602; Tooley, 392).

London: Whitmore and Fenn, 1820. Quarto, bound in contemporary polished calf, ruled in gilt, five raised bands to spine with two morocco compartment labels, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. x, 288; [ii], 284pp; [ii], 318, [2, list of plates]. Volume one contains the hand-colored frontispiece plus 16 hand-colored full page plates (lacking two – Capture of the Guerriere and Capture of the Pomona); volume two contains the hand-colored frontispiece plus all 14 full page hand-colored plates (plate 23 bound at page 31 instead of 29); volume three contains the hand-colored frontispiece plus 23 full page hand-colored plates (lacking two – Capture of the Isle of Banda and The Rinaldo Engaging...) with plates 43 and 44 switched). Bindings remain sturdy and square, minor general shelfwear and rubbing with a few areas of discoloration/staining, abrasion to the rear board of volume 1 and the front of volume 2, spines rubbed with loss to the compartment label of volume 1. Owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Internally, quite clean and bright with a few instances of foxing and staining, light dampstain to the corner of prelims and frontispiece in volume 3, plates in near fine or better condition with plate 37 loose and 55 partially detached. A nice set, rare with the hand-colored plates.

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