![NAVY -- A Treatise on the Office of a Purser, on board His Majesty’s Ships. By an old established officer in that line in His Majesty’s Navy. [London?]: printed in the year 1788. 8° (202 x 121mm). [6],vii,[1],202p. (Lacking half-title and final blank? A little soiling and staining.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Occasional authoritative amendments to text, possibly by the author (see pp. vii, 49, 83 115, and 158) -- Royal United Services Institution (blind-stamp on title).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05388_0056_000(navy_--_a_treatise_on_the_office_of_a_purser_on_board_his_majestys_shi023436).jpg?w=1)
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NAVY -- A Treatise on the Office of a Purser, on board His Majesty’s Ships. By an old established officer in that line in His Majesty’s Navy. [London?]: printed in the year 1788. 8° (202 x 121mm). [6],vii,[1],202p. (Lacking half-title and final blank? A little soiling and staining.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Occasional authoritative amendments to text, possibly by the author (see pp. vii, 49, 83 115, and 158) -- Royal United Services Institution (blind-stamp on title).
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE and full account of a purser’s victualling duties, including chapters on ‘Bread’, ‘Liquors’, ‘Salt Provisions’, ‘Sour Krout’, ‘Flour Suet, Current and Raisins’, ‘Fresh Beef’, ‘Portable Soup’, ‘Butter, Cheese, Oil, Vinegar, and Oil Jars,’ ‘Casks, Iron Hoops and Biscuit Bags’, 'Slop Cloaths', 'Dead Mens Cloaths', 'Tobacco', 'Fumigation', etc. NO COPY IN ESTC.
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE and full account of a purser’s victualling duties, including chapters on ‘Bread’, ‘Liquors’, ‘Salt Provisions’, ‘Sour Krout’, ‘Flour Suet, Current and Raisins’, ‘Fresh Beef’, ‘Portable Soup’, ‘Butter, Cheese, Oil, Vinegar, and Oil Jars,’ ‘Casks, Iron Hoops and Biscuit Bags’, 'Slop Cloaths', 'Dead Mens Cloaths', 'Tobacco', 'Fumigation', etc. NO COPY IN ESTC.
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