I have for sale a book entitled THE HISTORY OF THE BALTIC CAMPAIGN OF 1854 from Documents and other Materials furnished by Vice-Admiral Sir C Napier, edited by G Butler Earp.  First edition published in 1857 by Richard Bentley, London.  Napier was head of the Baltic fleet during this campaign which was part of the Crimean War. Napier laid the blame for mistakes on the Admiralty, while the Admiralty and the Press laid the blame at his door. The campaign "had successfully bottled up the Russian Navy for the entire first summer of the war. The tsar had been denied an opportunity to reinforce his Black Sea fleet with additional ships. The 30,000 Russian troops posted in the Gulf had also been prevented from joining the army in the Crimea."  In addition, Napier's constant training had welded the fleet personnel into a much more competent force for the next year's campaign; and not a single ship had been lost.

Full calf leather on hardboards with a double gilt border.  5 gilt raised bands, gilt tooling, a dark red leather title block and gilt lettering to the spine.  Very slight rubbing to edges, but really the boards are in fine condition.  Tooling to inside board edges.  Marbled endpapers and a bookplate to the front one.  Marbled page edges.  Ink inscriptions to the prelims.  Foxing just to prelims and flyleaf. Victorian Bookplate of John Algernon Bastard. All other pages clean.  Binding very firm.  622 pages, 22 x 14 cm.

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