This item is a new box set of Patrick O'Brian's celebrated Aubrey/Maturin novels. The set has all 20 books in the series in 5 hardcover books with dust jackets on each. This series includes the unfinished 21st book in the series -- left unfinished after the author's death. The books themselves are new, the shrink wrap on the outside of the box set has been torn (evidently from the wear and tear of being moved around) and taped back up.

"The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004. The series received considerable international acclaim, and most of the novels reached The New York Times Best Seller list. These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to English literature."

-- Wikipedia