1804 Naval Tactics Clerk Navy Horatio Nelson RARE Napoleon & Rev War PROVENANCE

1804 Naval Tactics Clerk Navy Horatio Nelson RARE Napoleon & Rev War PROVENANCE

John Clerk was an 18^th-century Scottish author who is best remembered for his books on naval tactics and sea warfare. His works on naval strategies were so popular that Horatio Nelson was known to have used excerpts from his naval essays as orders for his ships. ‘An Essay on Naval Tactics’ was first published in 1790 and was paramount in establishing new offensive maneuvers used to break through enemy lines. The ‘cutting the line’ technique was described in detail and became one of the most important naval maneuvers of the late 18^th– and 19^th-centuries.

This 1804 edition of Clerk’s masterpiece includes the expected illustrations depicting ship movement and direction.

Item number: #25240

Price: $995

CLERK, John

An essay on naval tactics, systematical and historical with explanatory plates. In four parts

Edinburgh: Arch Constable, 1804.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [4], xv, [1], 5-287, [1]
  • 52 engraved plates throughout
• Provenance:
  • Armorial Bookplate – VIRTUTE AD ASTRA
    • Possibly the arms of Captain Thomas Staines.
  • Handwritten – Staines
    • Captain Sir Thomas Staines KCB (1776–1830) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. In 1796, he began sailing as a lieutenant with the HMS Peterel; he remained there for six years under several commanders, including Philip Wodehouse, William Proby, Henry Digby, and Francis Austen (brother of novelist Jane Austen). In 1802, Staines received his own command over the HMS Chameleon, and continued with his service in the Napoleonic Wars with commissions to the HMS Cyane and HMS Briton, the latter of which was under his command when it arrived at the Pitcairn Islands in 1814 and discovered the fate of the mutineers of the Bounty. Staines was knighted in three orders: as a Knight Commander of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit, and a Knight of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~11.25in X 8.75in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)
  • VERY RARE and desirable, ESPECIALLY with this illustrious provenance!

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