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Spanish-American War: Group of Related Books. Including: Robley D. Evans, A Sailor's Log, Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life, (New New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908), vii, 467 pages, octavo, original tan buckram covers, the inside cover with a bookplate signed by the author, an interesting autobiography of Admiral "Fighting Bob" Evans, broken hinges; Bradley A. Fiske, From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral, (New York: The Century, 1919), x, 694 pages, octavo, original blue buckram covers, signed and inscribed, the autobiography of one of Dewey's officers at Manila Bay who became o One of the earliest naval officers to understand the revolutionary possibilities of naval aviation; Lucian Young, The Boston at Hawaii: The Observations and Impressions of a Naval Officer During a Stay of Fourteen Months in Those Islands on a Man-of-War, (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros. Printers, 1898), xi, 311 pages, with foldout maps, twelvemo, original cloth covers, signed by the author on inside cover, ex lib, by an officer who commanded the USS Hist off of Cuba in the Spanish-American War; and, Richard Sennett, The Marine Steam Engine, A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy, (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885), xv, 695 pages, with 12 pages of advertisements, octavo, original buckram covers, signed by Joseph Wright Powell the man who commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet.Auction Info
2009 December Signature Arms & Militaria Including Civil War Auction #6021 (go to Auction Home page)
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