(NAPIER, Charles, Sir). WILLIAMS, H. Noel. The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir Charles Napier. London : Hutchinson & Co., 1917. First Edition. .Pp (4),v-vi,(2),1-411 + portrait frontispiece, 1 plate leaf and [22] pp plates. 8vo, blue cloth. Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum. Vol 2. Biography 880. A full and detailed biography of the eccentric and controversial Napier, from his early years as a midshipman to Cape St. Vincent, his adventures (and misadventures) in the Mediterranean and Baltic, to the last of his protracted controversies with the Admiralty and his death. New endpapers, rubbed with slight nicking to spine ends and front corners, edges specked, spine slightly sunned, else very good. 170.00