M. Oppenheim:. A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and of Merchant Shipping in relation to the Navy: from MDIX to MDCLX, with an Introduction treating of the Preceding Period. ['Volume I', but no further volumes were published].. John Lane The Bodley Head,, London:, 1896.

Price: US$96.62 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xiv, 411; with a few illustrations, including the two that are hand-coloured. Some offsetting from frontis to the title page. An initial blank leaf bears the 1957 ownership name and acquisition note of the marine artist and Naval lawyer Roger Fisher: and a 1920 Naval Staff College bookplate covers an earlier bookplate on the pastedown. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of black buckram, front decorated with a flag in blind, spine titled and bearing the Seal of the Navy Office in gilt. Recently rebacked, with the original spine laid down. A very good, firm copy, lightly rubbed, corners slightly blunt.

Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom

M. Oppenheim. A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and of Merchant Shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX with an Introduction treating of the Preceding Period. John Lane The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1896.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt, page edges untrimmed, Colored frontispiece and full-page map at page 150 both clean and bright, pages clean and unmarked with little or no age spotting, overall VG+ condition

Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.