Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States

by Raphael Semmes

$750 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869. First Edition. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits, 6 colored lithographs, in text map and diagrams. Original cloth over boards. Tall octavo. xvi, 17-833 pages, 4 ads . A true classic by this native Marylander. Semmes was born in Charles County, joined the U. S. Navy in 1826, and served in the Mexican War.

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