(Uniform and Dress)

Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.  From the Original Text and Drawings in the Navy Department.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Granbo and New York: Horstmann Bros. & Allien, 1852



Folio (14  1/2  x 11  1/2  in.; 368 x 305 mm).  15 lithographed plates (13 of them chromolithographs) after J. Goldsborough Bruff by C. Schuessele and P. S. Duval; some soiling and staining, mostly in margins.  Publisher's gilt- and blindstamped maroon cloth, spine renewed in maroon buckram, Copley bookplate and 19th-century library label on front pastedown.



 

Robert W. Chambers (signature on front free endpaper dated 1909)

Scarce.  No copies of this work have appeared at auction since 1981.