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Report of the Secretary of the Navy in Relation to Armored Vessels.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864. Large 8vo. Report into the use of armored naval vessels as discussed by the House of Representatives and Congress. Condition: foxing to endpapers and on some pages, minor browning to extremities. Provenance: Bibliotheca Nevrologica Covrvilli, no. 5213 [bookplate and stamp to frontispiece], which is ex libris Cyril Courville, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist of 1906. [With:] Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. House Miscellaneous: 1st Session, 47th Congress. 1881-2. Vol. 20. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. 4to. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white engravings, includes maps. Full calf. Condition: paste marks to endpapes; cracking to top of spine, bumping and shelfwear.