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Green Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 264 Pp. First Edition. Light Usage But Covers Damp Stained. Inscribed By Author "To My Dear Friend Rudolph Forster, Esq., With The Warm Regard Of John Callan O'laughlin." Per Wikipedia, John Callan O'laughlin (1873 - 1949) Was A Journalist And Longtime Publisher Of The Army And Navy Journal. He Was An Assistant Secretary Of State, U. S. Commissioner To Japan, Etc. "Rudolph Forster Was Executive Clerk And Administrative Officer In Charge Of Executive Papers At The White House Until His Death In 1943. He Had Piled Up Nearly Fifty Years Of Service To Eight Presidents. His Job Was To Remind The President That A Bill, For Example, Must Be Acted Upon In A Certain Amount Of Time, Or That By Law He Must Fill A Vacancy Within A Definite Period. He Was Also Responsible For The 'Orderly Handling Of Documents' And Supervision Of The Large Clerical Staff. He Was The Most Important Permanent Official At The White House. " -Off The Record With F.D.R., Rutgers University Press, 1958. "Rudolph Is A Man Without Faults." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (As Cited In That Book, P. 140). Book Would Be Very Good, But Is Damp Stained At Corners Of Covers And Page Block; The Flat Surfaces Of The Pages Are Clean. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. 2nd Edition. A System of Seamanship, and Naval Tactics. By John Clerk, Esq. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. Philadelphia: Printed by Bartram and Reynolds, 1807, Second American Edition. INCOMPLETE PLATES - LACKING THREE! 192 p, full leather binding measures 8.75 x 5.5\u0094, 8vo. In poor condition. As is. Boards scuffed at edges and worn\/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed; hinges creased with rubbing. Title label intact, but gilt lettering moderately soiled & difficult to read. Pencil marginalia on front paste-down; ink marginalia on front end-page. Front gutter cracked with some exposed cording. Toning and age-staining through text-block, in varying degrees. Plate with Figures 7-10 exhibits large loss at fore-edge, plate is incomplete. Other fold-outs are normally soiled & toned at creases and edges. Paper remnants in rear gutter from detached fold-out plates. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. John Clerk of Eldin FRSE FSAScot (1728 \u0096 1812) was a Scottish merchant, author, artist, geologist and landowner. The 7th son of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Bt, Clerk of Eldin was a figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, best remembered for his influential writings on naval tactics in the Age of Sail. A friend of geologist James Hutton, he was a brother-in-law of architect Robert Adam, and a great-great-uncle of physicist James Clerk Maxwell. In about 1770, a former Royal Navy officer, Commissioner Edgar, took up retirement in the village of Eldin where Clerk lived. Inevitably he met Clerk, and shared stories of his experiences at sea. He had served under Admiral John Byng, and was a friend of Admiral Edward Boscawen. Edgar appears to have taken a keen interest in naval tactics, and was the key source for Clerk of Eldin's writings. As well as relying on Edgar's personal experience and knowledge, Clerk began to research naval tactics through the memoirs of former officers and campaigns, such as the Mediterranean operations during the War of the Austrian Succession by Admiral Thomas Mathews in 1744, and also more recent events, such as the Battle of Ushant, which led to a court case between Admirals Augustus Keppel and Hugh Palliser. The unexpected British defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake may have been the event that led to Clerk moving on from studying tactics, to theorizing and writing about them. In doing so, he broke new ground in English naval tactics. In his Essay on Naval Tactics (1779, published 1790), Clerk expounded on the tactic known as \"cutting the line\". This involved sailing into the enemy's line of ships, and attacking the rear ships of the enemy's line with the whole force of the attacking fleet. By 1799, Clerk of Eldin felt emboldened to write a System of Seamanship, beginning with his lament that ordinary \u0091honest tars\u0092 could not participate in the \u0091noble art\u0092 of seamanship or improvement of the \u0091machine\u0092 they inhabited. \u0091What a pity\u0092, Clerk wrote, \u0091that an art so important, so difficult, and so intimately connected with the invariable laws of mechanical nature, should be so held by its possessors, that it cannot improve, but must die with each individual\u0092. Seamen, in Clerk's view, could not \u0091arrange their thoughts; they can hardly be said to think\u0092, so that \u0091their art, acquired by habit alone, is little different from an instinct. We are as little intitled to expect improvement here as in the architecture of the bee or the beaver\u0092. First American Edition was published in Philadelphia by Thomas Dobson, 1799, this is a Second American Edition. Four plates intact (one damaged) INCOMPLETE. RAREA1807JRTA - 11\/17 RAREA1807RJST - 07\/25 - HKREV1081.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 492 pages. 6.14x1.06x9.21 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.