Brown leather binding. Red title plate with gilt lettering and banding on the spine. Spine professionally repaired.

A very well-preserved copy which makes excellent reading

First issued in 1731, these are the fundamental regulations governing “the organization and discipline of the British Navy… Up to 1731 every commander-in-chief had issued his own code of instructions to his ships, but in that year appeared the first set of King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, to be followed by many others as they were periodically revised” All of the 18th- and early 19th-century issues are uncommon,