The Sea Dogs: Privateers, Plunder and Pirates in the Elizabethan Age
by Williams, Neville
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: MacMillan, 1975. Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 278 pages. Further Reading, Index. Extensively illustrated with maps, portraits and engravings in color and black and white. Decorative map end-papers. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. A history of Great Britain's nascent naval power, developing not from direct government sponsorship in the form of an organized fleet, but rather the individual, albeit backed and financed through Royal patronage, exploits of individuals such as Drake, Hawkins, Grenville and Raleigh. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012798
- Title
- The Sea Dogs: Privateers, Plunder and Pirates in the Elizabethan Age
- Author
- Williams, Neville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- History, Nautical, Elizabethan Pirates - Freebooters - Explorers
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Nautical;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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