RUSSIAN WAR, 1855 BALTIC OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE

D. Bonner-Smith, F.R.Hist.S. [Admiralty Librarian; Vice President, Society of Nautical Research Hon. Secretary, Navy Records Society [Edited by]

Edité par Navy Records Society, London, 1944

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Vol. LXXXIV of the Publications of the Navy Records Society. ***Very good in cream and black buckram bards with gilt titles to spine, gilt borders to front and rear boards and gilt emblem to front board. Cream boards very slightly discoloured. Corners of boards slightly rubbed and bumped. Spine tight. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. ***Contents: Preface; Correspondence between The Admiralty and Rear-Admiral The Hon. R.S. Dundas, respecting Naval Operations in The Baltic, 1855. *** 414 pages including index plus six-page catalogue of titles to the rear by The Navy Records Society from 1894 to 1943, volume I. and II. of which relating to The State papers relating to the Defeat of The Spanish Armada, Anno 1588. ***232 mm x 164 mm. ***'The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 for the purpose of printing rare or unpublished works of naval interest.' (Quote from the recto half-title page). *** 'Inclosure 4 in No. 29. Lieutenant Murray to Captain Warden. Cuckoo, Fogle Fiord, July 1, 1855. 'Sir, I have the honour to acquaint you that, in pursuance of your orders, I proceeded on the 23rd ultimo to our cruising-ground between Kenlinge and the Kokar Rocks, and on the 26th captured the Russian brigantine Fogle, of 220 tons, and quite a new vessel, built at Abo in 1854, at anchor off a group of islands to the southeastward of Stor Sattunga. I then proceeded to the southward, among a dense group of islands and rocks not marked in the chart, and on the 29th, at 10 o'clock P.M., my boards captured a brigantine, name unknown, of 200 tons, under Russian colours, and built at Abo in 1852, but so surrounded by rocks and shoals that it was not until 11 o'clock P.M. on the next day they succeeded, after great labour, in bringing her out and alongside. ---Stor Sattunga appears to be the headquarters of the Russian police, who have dogged me about from place to place with wonderful pertinacity, always appearing whenever we landed, and preventing the inhabitants from selling us the smallest supplies even of milk or eggs.' (Quote from page 95). ***Uncommon. Of interest to military historians. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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• Titre: RUSSIAN WAR, 1855 BALTIC OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Éditeur: Navy Records Society, London
• Date de parution: 1944
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
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