NAVAL FORCES - WWII

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Photographic Views of British and Foreign Warships. First and only edition traced of this reference to the ship types of the navies of the world. An expensive production, illustrated extensively with half-tones and the use throughout of coated paper. The latter would have militated against survival at sea with its propensity to adhesion in damp conditions, and of a stated print run of 6,000 copies just two traced institutionally, NMM and Defensiebibliotheken, Koninklijke Militaire Academie, Breda.

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