Report of The Secretary of The Navy In Relation To Armored Vessels

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards. 607pp. Some light scuffing and wear to binding extremities, with some signs of cosmetic conservation to the fore-edges of the binding, and some rubbing to the paper covered boards. All edges marbled. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean, brown endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, folding charts and diagrams, some light occasional foxing. An official report on the efficacy and behaviour in conflict of armored vessels, with a special focus on the Monitor/Merrimac battle.