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  • SPANISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1700–1860
    RIF WINFIELD / JOHN TREDREA / ENRIQUE GARCÍA-TORRALBA PÉREZ / MANUEL BLASCO FELIP
    This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest...

    $583.00

  • BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1793–1817
    RIF WINFIELD
    The revised edition of this authoritative naval history provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Era.   A major contribution to naval history, this third volume in Rif Winfield's British Warships in the Age of Sail covers every vessel that served in the Royal Navy between the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Battle of Wate...

    $668.00

  • FRENCH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1626–1786
    RIF WINFIELD / STEPHEN S ROBERTS
    “The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative.” —Midwest Book Review   The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661....

    $358.00

  • SPANISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1700–1860
    RIF WINFIELD / JOHN TREDREA / ENRIQUE GARCÍA-TORRALBA PÉREZ / MANUEL BLASCO FELIP
    This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest...

    $639.99

  • BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1817–1863
    RIF WINFIELD
    The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the Royal Navy's rating system to the end of sail as the principal mode of propulsio...

    $668.00

  • FIRST RATE
    RIF WINFIELD
    In the sailing era First Rates were the largest, most powerful and most costly ships to construct, maintain and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They were the very embodiment of national power, and as such drew the attention of artists, engravers and...

    $618.00

  • BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1603–1714
    RIF WINFIELD
    The 1st volume in this comprehensive reference series details the design and employment of British warships in the 17th and early 18th centuries.      During the seventeenth century, Britain transformed from a minor state into a global economic power with the largest navy in the world. The character of this navy was forged by a bloody civil war, three fiercely disputed conflict...

    $314.00

  • BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1714–1792
    RIF WINFIELD
    The 2nd volume in this comprehensive naval history details the design and employment of British warships through the 18th century.     The Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinn...

    $352.00