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BURCHETT, JOSIAH. A Complete History of the most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Conclusion of the Last War with France. Engraved allegorical frontispiece; lacks the portrait and maps. [56], 800, [32] pages. Folio, contemporary panelled calf with morocco lettering piece, joints reinforced; paper crack in blank gutter of 3E4, tear in 4G4 slightly affecting text. London: W. B. for J. Walthoe and J. Walthoe junior, 1720
first edition. "This volume is particularly important in the literature of naval history, not only as a narrative of naval operations in the Nine Years'' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, but as the first general naval history written in the English language" (ODNB). Alden 720/38.
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