Inscribed by the author
[NELSON]. MAHAN, Captain A.T. The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain. London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company. 1897.
Two volumes, 8vo. Original illustrated cloth, top edges gilt; pp. xxiii, [5], 456; xvi, [4], 427, [3, publisher's catalogue]; illustrated with 19 plates and 20 maps and plans; only very light wear to extremities, initial gatherings previously shaky and fixed now; otherwise a very clean and fresh copy with bookplate Shrubland Hall on front fly-leaf of the first volume.
First UK edition - initial blank inscribed With the Author's regards and compliments - of this classic biography of Nelson written by the eminent Navy historian and profound analyst of geopolitics.
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