8vo. In two volumes. xxxvii, [3], 240, 32; [4], 300pp. With nine engraved folding charts/maps predominantly depicting the battles of St. Vincent and Trafalgar. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Later bookplates of R. C. Fiske to both FEPs, occasional spotting.

The first edition in English of Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Graviere's (1812-1892) Guerres maritimes sous la republique et l'empire (originally published in the Revue des Deux Mondes), a surprisingly impartial account of the operations of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, that is in essence a life of Nelson. The author gives account of the Admiral’s youth, his service in the Mediterranean, and his achievements in the War of the First Coalition, concluding, naturally, with his death at Trafalgar.