Naval Chronicle (3 results)

Large 8vo (165 x 240 mm). 40 volumes, prettily gilt to covers and spines. With more than 400 engraved and aquatint plates, maps, charts and portraits (many by Nicholas Pocock). Marbled endpapers. The complete 40-volume run of the "Naval Chronicle", the most influential maritime publication of its time and today a key source for British maritime and military history. Founded by the Royal Navy chaplain James Stanier Clarke and the naval officer James Stanier Clarke, the monthly periodical ran for two full decades from January, 1799 to December, 1818. It contains a wealth of information about the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, including biographies, histories, anecdotes and news, essays on nautical subjects, as well as poems and ballads on a variety of related topics. - Several volumes include material on events in the Arabian Gulf and Sea, often recounting episodes of "piracy" against British vessels, such as the capture of the East India Company's ships "Shannon" and "Trimmer" on 1 Dec. 1804 (an account is found in vol. XV, pp. 24f.) or the Arab raid on the "Minerva" on 29 May 1809, during which the crew were massacred and the vessel converted into the Al-Qasimi flagship (reported in vol. XXIII, p. 281f.; vol. XXIV, p. 30f.). Such events provoked the British "Persian Gulf" campaign of 1809, in which a large British force was deployed to destroy Al-Qasimi bases and ships. The Battle of Ras al-Khaimah, fought on 11-13 Nov. 1809, is reflected in reports printed in vol. XXIV (pp. 73 and 363), and renewed interest in the region and its history, customs and religion prompted a lengthy article on "The Wahebite Arabs" (vol. XXIV, pp. 293ff.; 371ff.), or "the Wahebbi, whose name is much connected with the Iowassimi pirates". A decade later, the British Navy would return in another massive operation against Ras Al Khaimah, which would lead to the signing of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the British and the Sheikhs of the coast which today comprises the United Arab Emirates. - Bindings variously rubbed and bumped, some quite severely with hinges split and extremeties chipped; some spines rebacked, some labels lost. Occasional brownstaining throughout, but largely confined to tissue guards and opposite pages. In all a worn but still appealingly bound set, often encountered in separate volumes only. - Sabin 52076. ZDB-ID 1053834-3.

First edition. 3 vols. 7 maps (5 extending and 2 folding), 22 engraved plates (including 17 portraits). 8vo. Contemporary full dark calf, worn, with couple of joints weak. Two sections a little loose, protruding and therefore with slight dustmarking and fray. Slight marginal fray to fore-edges of a couple of maps. A little, mainly marginal browning to some pages. Very good otherwise. x, 480pp; (iv), 480; (iv), 474pp. London, J. Fuller et al., The maps include a map of world, Europe, the Channel Islands and Martinique. The most interesting are the maps of the siege of Quebec, and draught of Basque Roads in 1757, compiled to illustrate the court-martial of General Sir John Mordaunt, following the failure of a joint services amphibious assault on the French dockyard of Rochefort, when his dilatory behaviour caused the attack to fail.     This example contains a rare English geological map of North America, first prepared for the Literary Magazine (1756) ? ?A Map of North America shewing the Places where the metals, minerals, fossils and medicinal-waters are to be found.?

A small, yet very detailed map portraying the battle of New Orleans in January, 1815. The battle was notable on at least two counts -- it was a disastrous defeat for the highly regarded British forces, and it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 had been agreed to by the Americans and British. (News of the Treaty would not reach New Orleans until weeks after the battle.) The map closely -- but not exactly -- follows that of a manuscript map in the papers of Robert Saunders Dundas, first Lord of the Admiralty. Dundas' map is reproduced in Charting Louisiana. An uncommon map; last listed in Antique Map Price Record (1983-2007) in 1993. Jolly, Maps in British Periodicals, Part II: NAV-55. For the Dundas map, see Lemmon, Magill & Wiese; Charting Louisiana: no. 81, page 158. Trimmed to neat line on all sides and laid down on a larger sheet; lacks imprint below lower neat line. A very clean example with a couple of spots of very light foxing. 5 x 8.".