Mahan Commander (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 volume 1st edition set in blue gold embossed cloth boards. Very minor wear to tips of spines else bindings are fresh and bright. Boards all tight 2 vols have pencil name from 1885 in front else no markings. No foxing or stains. Maps look good all contents tight. A very nice set. Match the Army set we also have up.

First Edition. In three volumes: I: THE BLOCKADE AND THE CRUISERS, by James Russell Soley. Pp. x+258(last blank)+[4](publisher's advertisements), 7 maps (1 folding), appendices. II: THE ATLANTIC COAST, by Daniel Ammen. Pp. xii+274(last blank)+[2](publisher's advertisements), 9 maps and illustrations (4 folding), appendix, index; III: THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS, by A. T. Mahan. Pp. x+268(last blank)+[4](publisher's advertisements), 8 maps and plans (3 folding), appendix, index. Each volume cr. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, fore-corners lightly bruised, worn at head and tail of spines, with some fraying to head of Volumes II and III, Volume III with small nick to fore-edge of upper board and light fracture to upper portion of lower board; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, leaves lightly browned, a few spots of soiling, fore-edges of four leaves in Volume I slightly split or chipped; Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers, New York, 1883. First edition. *With publisher's two-sided flyer for the series loosely inserted, advertising that the three volumes series will give the whole narrative of Naval Operations from 1861 to 1865. Volume III, 'The Gulf and Inland Waters', is the first book by United States naval officer and historian, Alfred Thayer Mahan, said by some to be the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.