The Naval and Military Almanac (Almanack), for the year 1840 (1841), containing in addition to a calendar and the ordinary almanack information, tables of reference on matters of special interest to the united services.
London: A.H. Baily, 1840, 1841. Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, 97, (1), 79, (1) pp. Engraved title to the first work and 27 plates, including folding plates of a facsimile letter from Nelson and of the signals used at Trafalgar, light damp staining to the top and bottom of most of the plates, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary black half morocco, spine a little rubbed. Scarce, with Copac listing only four copies of the 1840 almanac, and three of the 1841 edition. No further issues seem to have appeared. Item #23287
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