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Hardcover. Condition: Good/fair (1858 The book is 162 years old). No Jacket. NAP, Presumed 1st Edition. cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Dark blue textured cloth over bds w/ with what appears to look like water stains, althought nothing in the book. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Fading & discoloration to approx 1/3 of front cover toward fore-edge, & similar fading & discoloration to approx 1/2 of rear cover at fore-edge, . Illus in b&w. 155pp + 32pp pub advts. Tight inscribed with the previous owners name, pgs foxed with age, no pages loose. See OUR OWN picture for Quality control. Note 3 other copies of this book online valued for as much as Zar 7000, out copy a very fair price.
Biography :
DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD, Bart. (1776—1861), British general, younger son of Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, was born at Gosport in 1776, and entered the Royal Military Academy in 1790. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1794, becoming first lieutenant a few months later. In 1795 he was shipwrecked while in charge of a draft for Canada, and lived with his men for a whole winter on the Labrador coast.
n 1821 he was promoted major-general. Douglas’s criticisms of Carnot led to an important experiment being carried out at Woolwich in 1822, and his Naval Gunnery became a standard text-book, and indeed first drew attention to the subject of which it treated. From 1823 to 183 I Sir Howard Douglas ‘was governor of New Brunswick, and, while there, he had to deal with the Maine boundary dispute of 1828. He also founded Fredericton College, of which he was the first chancellor. On his return to Europe he was employed in various missions, and ‘he published about this time Naval Evolutions, a controversial work dealing with the question of “breaking the line “(London, 1832). /p>
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