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Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783, 6 volumes, 2nd edition, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804, errata leaf to volume 4, browning to title pages and outer leaves, and throughout volumes 3 and 6, bookplates of William Brodie of Brodie (1799-1873), contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, slightly rubbed overall, volume 2 front joint cracked at head, 8vo, together with Payne (John), The Naval, Commercial and General History of Great Britain, from the Earliest Times to the Rupture with Spain, in the year 1779 ... 5 volumes, 2nd edition ('corrected and much improved'), printed for the proprietors, 1798, 46 engraved plates including frontispieces, most headed 'Engraved for Hervey's Naval History', lacking volume 2 frontispiece (duplicate of the plate facing p. 5 loosely inserted) and volume 3 frontispiece and title page, chips and tears to a handful of plates, bookplates of William Brodie of Brodie, contemporary half calf by J. Forsyth of Elgin (his ticket to front pastedowns), rubbed, spine labels chipped, 8vo (21.2 x 12.4 cm), and [Thomson, William], Memoirs of the War in Asia, from 1780 to 1784 ... by an Officer of Colonel Baillie's Detachment, 2nd edition, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1789, folding map, spotting, bookplate of William Brodie of Brodie, later half calf, 8vo Sabin 4145 for Beatson ('contains the whole series of naval and military events which occurred during the American Revolution'). Beatson's work is greatly expanded from the first edition of 1790, which appeared in three volumes; although Payne's work is stated second edition on the title pages, no first edition appears to have been published. Provenance (all items): Sotheby's London, 2-3 October 1978. (12)