LONG (W[illiam] H[enry].)

Medals of The British Navy and How They Were Won.

With a List of those Officers who for their Gallant Conduct were granted Honorary Swords and Plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund. First edition. Metallic chromolithographic frontispiece and twenty other similar plates, eleven illustrations. 8vo. Light browning, but otherwise an unusually bright copy, the plates unoxidized, in the original blue cloth, gilt - Nelson portrait from Boulton’s Trafalgar Medal gilt to the upper board - just a little rubbed at the extremities, t.e.g. xiii, 450pp. London, Norie & Wilson, and Portsmouth, W.H. Long, 1895.

£175.00
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