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Edinburgh: Printed for Adam Black; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. VG+. 1827. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 331 pages. With notes by Lord Rodney, and an Introduction by a naval officer. Rebound in brown leather with new endpapers. Light rubbing at the edges. Interior very clean and solid .

1804 Naval Tactics Clerk Navy Horatio Nelson RARE Napoleon & Rev War PROVENANCE
John Clerk was an 18th-century Scottish author who is best remembered for his books on naval tactics and sea warfare. His works on naval strategies were so popular that Horatio Nelson was known to have used excerpts from his naval essays as orders for his ships. 'An Essay on Naval Tactics' was first published in 1790 and was paramount in establishing new offensive maneuvers used to break through enemy lines. The 'cutting the line' technique was described in detail and became one of the most important naval maneuvers of the late 18th- and 19th-centuries.
This 1804 edition of Clerk's masterpiece includes the expected illustrations depicting ship movement and direction.
Item number: #25240
Price: $995
CLERK, John
An essay on naval tactics, systematical and historical with explanatory plates. In four parts
Edinburgh: Arch Constable, 1804.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], xv, [1], 5-287, [1]
o 52 engraved… Read More

Edinburgh, Scotland: for Adam Black, 1827. cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. xlvi, 331, (3) pages. Third edition. Advertisement to the first edition, table of contents, introduction, author's preface. Notice to the binder follows text. Black and white plates throughout text. Binder's tag on front pastedown attributes binding to the Guild of Women-Binders (Tidcombe 115-130). The Guild of Women-Binders very rarely used cloth covered boards for their bindings, which gives evidence that this book could have been used as practice by some of the newer, more novice, binders. The gilt inlays on the front and rear panels are in the shape of a scallop shell, with the initials "D H" in the center, which, according to the pencil notation on the front free end-paper, was David Hannay (1853 - 1934 ), English naval historian and author of Rodney: English Men of Action (1891, MacMillan, London). Covers… Read More