Histoire Des Progrès De La Puissance Navale De L'Angleterre.Nouvelle Édition, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée
by SAINTE-CROIX, [Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, baron de] [1746-1809]
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About This Item
Paris: G. De Bure l'aîné, 1786., 1786. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 6 p.l., 491; 2 p.l., 492. with half-titles. folding table. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (extremities worn). Second and Best Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. In the prefatory remarks Sainte-Croix laments the numerous errors and inadequacies of the first edition of 1780 which was published in Yverdon. The naval history includes numerous passages relating to America: the exploits of Sir Francis Drake against the Spanish in the West Indies and South America, the struggles of the French and English over the Newfoundland fisheries and Hudson's Bay, the Seven Years' War and the conquest of Canada, and the Paris Treaty of 1763. Cioranescu 59315. Sabin 75533.. F. Hardcover.
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- D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)
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- Title
- Histoire Des Progrès De La Puissance Navale De L'Angleterre.Nouvelle Édition, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée
- Author
- SAINTE-CROIX, [Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, baron de] [1746-1809]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- Paris: G. De Bure l'aîné, 1786.
- Date Published
- 1786
- Keywords
- NAVAL AMERICA
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- Naval;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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