The Naval History of the Civil War.
Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, [1984]. Hardcover. 4to. Blue and grey paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 843pp. Near fine/near fine. Item #45454
ISBN: 0890095752
Tight and quite nice facsimile reprint of the massive 1886 first edition (New York: The Sherman Publishing Company), "Illustrated from Original Sketches Made by Rear-Admiral Walke and Others." According to Thomas Wells: "Comprehensive, partisan, egotistical, sometimes inaccurate, but always interesting." NEVINS I, 231.
Price: $45.00
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