Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
127 pp. Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. She was originally an East Indiaman, a merchant ship built in France.....
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904. Large Hardcover.
1904 printing of 1898 second edition, with 1904 supplement. Both volumes: No jackets. Board corners bumped, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper.
534; 336 pp. Two volume set. Black-and-white map precedes text of volume one; 28 plates, some double-sided, in volume one. VOLUME.....
New York: Dana and Company, 1857. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
1857 second edition, which added a portrait (lacking here) and 20 wood engravings (one heading each chapter). Neat but amateur repair to binding using adhesive. Minor loss to spine head and spine base, quarter inch by half inch chip on.....