[MANDERSON, James (dates unknown)]. A Letter to the Prime Minister, and First lord of the Admiralty ... on the Extension of the Naval Establishments of the Country. [etc.]

[MANDERSON, James (dates unknown)].  A Letter to the Prime Minister, and First Lord of the Admiralty, from a Captain in the Royal Navy, on the Extension of the Naval Establishments of the Country; With an Engraved Sketch of the Body of Falmouth Harbour; wherein it is proved, that this Harbour, from the combination of Situation, Safety, Ease of Entrance, Capacity, and extreme Susceptibility of Improvement, is the First Harbour in Great Britain for all Naval Purposes connected with the Atlantic Ocean. London: J. Stockdale, [1810]. Small 4to (217 x 160mm). 50-pages, folding engraved “Sketch of the Body of Falmouth Harbour and its Deep Channels” (some light staining). Later pebbled cloth (a little bowed). With 5 other works of related interest in 10 vols., namely W. H. Smyth’s The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty’s Ship Nisus (London, 1829, later paper-backed boards), Edward Tagart’s A Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood (London, 1832, modern half calf), William James’s The Naval History of Great Britain (London, 1837, 6 vols., contemporary half calf), John Baillie’s A Memoir of Captain W. Thornton Bate (London, 1859, original cloth) and J. G. Brighton’s Admiral Sir P. B. V. Brooke … A Memoir (London, 1866, original blue buckram). Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). The lot sold not subject to return. (11)