O'Brian, Patrick.

Master and Commander, 1970; Post Captain, 1972; H.M.S. Surprise, 1973; The Mauritius Command, 1977; Desolation Island, 1978; The Fortune of War, 1979; The Surgeon's Mate, 1980; The Ionian Mission, 1981; Treason's Harbour, 1983; The Far Side of the World, 1984; The Reverse of the Medal, 1986; The Letter of Marque, 1988; The Thirteen-Gun Salute, 1989; The Nutmeg of Consolation, 1991; Clarissa Oakes, 1992; The Wine-Dark Sea, 1993; The Commodore, 1994, signed by the author; The Yellow Admiral, 1997; The Hundred Days, 1998; Blue at the Mizzen, 1999; Collins or Harper Collins, first editions, original cloth bindings, dust-jackets, some small tears or other wear to early jackets; Richard Temple. Macmillan, 1962, first edition, pictorial boards; Hussein. An Entertainment. The British Library, 1999, second edition; Caesar. The Life Story of a Panda Leopard. The British Library, 1999, second edition; these last two in cloth backed pictorial boards, in original maroon slipcase; 8vo (23)

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First editions of the celebrated sequence of novels capturing life in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, generally regarded as one of, if not  the finest series of historical novels ever written.