£1,200
NAVAL EVOLUTIONS OR A SYSTEM OF SEA DISCIPLINE BY CHRISTOPHER O'BRYEN ESQ, 1762
Naval Evolutions: or, a System of Sea-Discipline; extracted from the Celebrated Treatise of P. L'Hoste..., London, W. Johnston, 1762, 18 folding engraved plates, with the final leaf of ‘Ships lost by the English during the present war’ and errata, original boards with paper label on spine, lower fore-corner of front cover repaired, unopened, Sir Home Riggs Popham’s signature on front paste-down endpaper -- 9½ x 11½in. (24 x 29cm.)
Popham’s invention of his telegraphic code was used (and greatly admired) by Nelson in the West Indies and at Trafalgar; book-label of the booksellers Mario and Fiammetta Witt. Hoste’s magisterial L’art des armées navales was first published in 1697.
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