ON A MAN-OF-WAR. A SERIES OF NAVAL SKETCHES

Detroit:E. B. Smith & Co. 1878. 1st edition. 253pp. Missing frontispiece. Hardcover.  Decorated brown boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges, spine ends chipped and worn and edge points gentle bumped and worn to boards. Page edges soiled. Internally free of previous owners marks or signatures, but with light foxing and a few smudges scattered throughout. The binding is tight, but cracked at title page (and missing frontispiece) with rear hinge just starting. Page 14/15 is detached but laid in.