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xv, [1], 528, ccxvi, [16] + 4 ad pp. With 3 engraved plates. (8vo) 23x14 cm (9x5") cloth backed boards, paper spine label, newer endpapers. 

A new, revised edition of James's tome on the battles of the War of 1812 between the English and American navies. "Not only have the details of each action been more fully and correctly stated, and the comparative force of the parties, more clearly exhibited; but many naval occurrences of the late war, not noticed in the Halifax edition, have been added: and, as the American historians have commenced attacking the British naval character, from the war of 1776, it was incumbent upon the author to bestow a slight retrospect upon the events of that early period." - from the preface. The extensive appendix includes more than a hundred letters between high-ranking officials of the American navy, from the years around and leading up to the War of 1812, as well as a list of British and American cruisers that were captured and/or lost during the war.