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$US 350.00
Marks, Richard
THE RETROSPECT...and an Address to Naval Officers. By Alquis, Formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
Imprint: Boston, Armstrong and Crocker and Brewster, 1822
Binding: Hardback
8vo., contemporary printed gray boards. An uncut and untrimmed. REMARKABLE SURVIVAL of a fragile binding, with minimal wear. This second American edition (after the seventh London edition), follows by a year the Philadelphia edition (which was after the fourth London edition). It was a very popular, albeit, pseudonymously written book in which the author, now a Minister of the Established Church, retells his travels to foreign lands as an officer in the Royal Navy, from a Christian viewpoint.A PRIME EXAMPLE of early nineteenth century book making
A BRILLIANT COPY IN PRINTED BOARDS
Stock number:731.