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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 150)

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1927

Seller ID: 2304978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket (306 titles on reverse). A few light spots on top edge, jacket lightly rubbed and toned, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 485 pp. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They sh...
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Himself (The Black and Gold Library)

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright: 1930

Seller ID: 2305582

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Faint stains on rear board. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 513 pp. Translated by John Addington Symonds. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Benvenuto Cellini (November 3, 1500 February 13, 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography. Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great sel...
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Some Effects of the Climate of Italy

By: Chambers, Thomas King

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, John Churchill and Sons / J.E. Adlard: 1865

Seller ID: 2199185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition in book form. Presentation copy - 'With the author's compliments' in ink on front endpaper, owner bookplate on front paste-down, faint stain to board edges. 1865 Hard Cover. 95, [1] pp. 8vo. An examination of the health benefits of the Italian climate, written by a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. From the preface: This small volume contains the substance of a short course of lectures, written during the leisure of an involuntary holiday, delivered a few weeks since in the theatre of St. Mary's Hospital, and reported in the 'Lancet.' I rejoice in the opportunity which p...
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Glimpses of Foreign Lands and People

By: Chapin, William Wisner

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock: 1926

Seller ID: 2263617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Special edition limited to 500 copies. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Small abrasion to base of rear board. 1926 Hard Cover. x, [2], [895]-996, 1047-1070, [1]-101, [3] pp. William Wisner Chapin produced 130 hand-colored lantern slides of Korea that are housed in the permanent collection of George Eastman House. These were used to illustrated his National Geographic Magazine article, 'Glimpses of Korea and China,' published in November 1910. Both the lantern slides and the article were products of Chapin's 1909 world tour.
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Caroline Matilda: Queen of Denmark - A Tale of Adultery, Murder and High Treason

By: Chapman, Hester W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 2283696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Minor repair to front hinge. 1972 Hard Cover. [xix], 20-[222] pp. 8vo. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, genealogical charts on endpapers. A biography of Carolina Matilda, Queen of Denmark and sister of King George III, whose ill-fated pairing with Christian VII pushed her to have an affair with Johann Struensee which would have far-reaching political consequences.
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Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-57

By: Charmley, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1995

Seller ID: 2201919

ISBN: 0151275815

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Light crease down front jacket flap, owner blind stamp on front endpaper, ink stamps following text appear to indicate date of acquisition and collection volume # of previous owner. 1995 Hard Cover. xv, 427 pp. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2. Black & white photographs. A companion history to the author's controversial book on Winston Churchill, Churchill: The End of Glory, offers a provocative revisionist account of the 'special relationship' between the U.S. and England during and after World War II. Tour.
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A Favourite of Napoleon: Memoirs of Mademoiselle George

By: Cheramy, Paul

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, John McBride Company: 1909

Seller ID: 2301191

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine and boards lightly toned, boards lightly rubbed, light stain on spine and boards, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. 320 pp. Marguerite Georges (17871867) was a French stage actress. She was one of the most famous French actresses of her time. She is also known for her affair with Napoleon, but also claimed to have had an affair with the Duke of Wellington, a claim which is considered probable by some historians.[1] She published under the name Marguerite-Josephine Weimer George. Marguerite Georges was born Marguerite-Josephine Weimer in Bayeux, the daugh...
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The Romance of Princess Amelia, Daughter of George III (1783-1810), Including Extracts from Private and Unpublished Papers

By: Childe-Pemberton, William S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Kessinger Publishing: 2007

Seller ID: 2283697

ISBN: 0548802289

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Modern print-on-demand reproduced from the 1910 original. 2007 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 17-[316] pp. A biography of the daughter of King George III, which includes extracts from private and unpublished papers, and reproductions of several portraits.
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The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803

By: Childe-Pemberton, William S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Elibron Classics / Adamant Media Corporation: 2005

Seller ID: 2283704

ISBN: 1402173695

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

2005 facsimile of the 1900 original. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [3], 296 pp. A biography of the Baroness de Bode, who fled France during the French Revolution, took refuge in Germany, and was later granted an estate in southern Russia by Empress Catherine II. Drawn from letters written to her family in England.
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The Story of Aspley Guise: The Success of an English Village

By: Christodoulou, Joan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Albans, Staples Press: 1980

Seller ID: 1985175

ISBN: 0950711209

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Front wrapper lightly foxed. 1980 Stapled Binding. 84 pp. A history of Aspley Guise from the Victorian Era to the present.
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Winston S. Churchill, Volumes I & II: Youth, 1874-1900; Young Statesman, 1901-1914 [Books 1 & 2]

By: Churchill, Randolph S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2267766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Edges foxed, jackets lightly soiled. 1967 Hard Cover. xxxviii, [2], 614, [2]; xxxii, [2], 763, [3] pp. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4. Illustrated with photographs and maps. The first two volumes of what grew to become a massive eight-volume biography of the British Prime Minister. CONTENTS: YOUTH: Acknowledgments; Preface; Short Biographies; Birth; Ireland; Ascot; Brighton; Harrow; Sandhurst; The Fourth Hussars; New York and Cuba; India; Frontier Wars; The River War; Return to India; Boer War; Escape; Ladysmith to London; Oldham and America; Genealogical Tables; Index; YOUNG STATESMAN: Ack...
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The Age of Revolution (A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume Three [3])

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1957

Seller ID: 2274053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club edition. Jacket rubbed, large tear on rear jacket edge repaired with clear tape, several tiny chips along jacket edges. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 402 pp. Volume 3 of Winston Churchills four-volume sweeping historical account begins with Marlboroughs victorious 1704 campaign at Blenheim in support of William of Orangeand ends with Napoleons defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Here, Churchill tells the story of how Britain rose to world leadership during the Age of Revolution in the eighteenth century. Churchill brings his considerable literary talents...
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 1993

Seller ID: 2304662

ISBN: 1566191270

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Endpapers and top edge foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 233 pp. The book describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897. It is dedicated to General Bindon Blood.--Wikipedia
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Four Volume Set: The Birth of Britain, The New World, The Age of Revolution, The Great Democracies

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1962

Seller ID: 2306439

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks slipcase/jackets. Ring stain on front board of fourth volume, owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in four volumes. xxii, 521; xi, 433; xiv, 402; xi, 403 pp. 8vo. History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and her former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning of the First World War (1914). It started in 1937 and was finally published 195658, delayed severa...
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The Second World War Six Volume Set: Their Finest Hour; The Gathering Storm; The Hinge of Fate; The Grand Alliance; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1948

Seller ID: 2306440

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club editions. Volumes 1-5 lack jackets. Boards faded, front board of first volume lightly stained. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in six hardcover volumes. 8vo. 8 5/8 x 6. Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britain's darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the pivotal event in ...
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The Second World War Six Volume Set: Their Finest Hour; The Gathering Storm; The Hinge of Fate; The Grand Alliance; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1948

Seller ID: 2307440

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club editions. Jackets rubbed with minor loss from corners, owner bookplates on front endpapers, light spots on boards of a couple volumes. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in six hardcover volumes. 8vo. 8 5/8 x 6. Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britain's darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second...
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]; Churchill, Randolph S. (Preface & Notes)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1941

Seller ID: 2306942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. A few light smudges on front board. 1941 Hard Cover. x, 462 pp. Frontispiece of Churchill at his desk. A collection of speeches given by Winston Churchill from May 1938 to the date of publication. In the introduction, Randolph Churchill points out that, only two and a half years after the publication of While England Slept, many of the darkest fears Churchill expressed in that book have become reality.
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]; Hartman, Tom

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 1990

Seller ID: 2305412

ISBN: 0393028143

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 233, [3] pp. This edition includes a foreword by Tom Hartman. The book describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897. It is dedicated to General Bindon Blood.
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Lehmann Toys: The History of E.P. Lehmann--1881-1981

By: Cieslik, Jurgen & Marianne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., New Cavendish Books: 1982

Seller ID: 2194703

ISBN: 0904568407

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dent in front cover along left top edge near spine. 1982 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. In the world of Tin Toys, the products of E.P. Lehmann have formed a distinctive sub-group both from the point of view of subject and style. They represent all that was great in German toys in both form and movement. This superbly researched and illustrated book compiled with the close co-operation of the Lehmann company, sets new standards in 'one-make' toy histories. The authors are fortunate in having been able to deal in facts rather than conjecture and give some fascinating insights into the birth of the gre...
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Carrier Admiral

By: Clark, Admiral J.J. 'Jocko'; Reynolds, Clark G.; Radford, Admiral Arthur W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 2308152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few small tears along top edge of jacket, jacket edges bumped. Spine slightly cocked, some faint spots on page ridges. 1967 Hard Cover. xv, 333 pp. In this book, which is unique to American naval literature, Jocko Clark recounts a story that no one else in naval aviation has ever told. Throughout his career he was involved with the men who developed American naval aviation. He knew them personally, and flew with them in the early days. He tested their planes and theories of combat. He shared their frustrations and their magnificent moments of success in World War II and the Ko...
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Joseph Priestley: A Comet in the System

By: Clark, John Ruskin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: San Diego, California, John Ruskin Clark: 1990

Seller ID: 2308073

ISBN: 0962425206

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Minor general wear. 1990 Trade Paperback. 253 pp. Joseph Priestley FRS (/?pri?stli/;[4] 24 March 1733 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen,[5] having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have strong claims to the discovery, Scheele having discovered it in 1772, two years before Priestley.[6] During his lifetime, Priestley's considerabl...
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The Lost Fortune of the Tsars

By: Clarke, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1995

Seller ID: 2292061

ISBN: 0312131186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. xviii, [4], 312 pp. 8vo. Genealogical table, black-and-white photographs. After the Bolshevik murder of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and other members of the Russian royal family in 1918, what became of the Romanov jewels, Faberge eggs, yachts, money, gold and investments? Separating rumor from fact, Clarke, former financial editor of the London Times, provides solid answers in an inquiry that reads like a good detective mystery.
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Nuns In Nineteenth-Century Ireland

By: Clear, Caitriona

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Dublin, Gill & Macmillan: 1987

Seller ID: 2261544

ISBN: 0717114759

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small tear to rear jacket edge. 1987 Hard Cover. An examination of women's roles in the Catholic Church in 19th-century Ireland, with a special focus on the socio-political climate of the era leading to an increase in monasticism.
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The Vikings (Lost Worlds)

By: Clements, J.M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Sterling: 2007

Seller ID: 2272373

ISBN: 1402752180

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Large Hardcover. For more than two hundred years, during the Vikings heyday, all Europe shivered in fear at their terrifying approach. This lavishly illustrated and interactive book explains why. It illuminates every aspect of Viking history and culture, from their legends and lore to their journeys of exploration and their discovery of America five hundred years before Columbus. Most exciting of all, the volume contains dozens of special features to heighten the experience, with sound chips (including someone speaking in Anglo-Saxon against a backgroun...
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Medievalia et Humanistica

By: Clogan, Paul Maurice (Editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Denton, North Texas State University: 1974

Seller ID: 2289557

ISBN: 0913904015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. 1974 Hard Cover. x, [4], 266 pp. 8vo. CONTENTS: Periodization and Self-Understanding in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times; Clio and The Lawyers; History and Prophecy in Medieval Thought; Beowulf As Heroic History; The Trouble with Muscovy; A Carolingian Borrowing from Second Nicaea; The Art of the Pseudo-Origen Homily De Maria Magdalena; The Ars Dictaminis and Rhetorical Textbooks at the Bolognese University in the Fourteenth Century; Cain and Abel in the Chester Creation; The Textual Reliability of Chaucer's Lyrics; Lord Berner's Translation of Artus de la Pe...
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Fleet Air Arm: The Admiralty Account of Naval Air Operations (The War Facsimiles, Uncovered Editions)

By: Coates, Tim

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Stationery Office: 2001

Seller ID: 2202529

ISBN: 0117025399

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A 2001 facsimile of the 1943 original. A very nice copy. 127 pp. The Fleet Air Arm was established in 1939 as the Royal Navy's own flying branch, independent of the Royal Air Force. With its vast aircraft carriers bearing squadrons of fighter pilots, its main role was to protect a fleet or convoy from attack, or to escort an air striking force into battle. As the war progressed, so its importance to the Navy grew, providing vital reconnaissance information and increasingly accurate and deadly firepower. Illustrated throughout with striking photographs and maps, this book provides a wealth of d...
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Le Voyage d'Italie de Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1758) (Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome 145)

By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Roma, Ecole Franaise de Roma: 1991

Seller ID: 2198628

ISBN: 2728302359

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1991 Large Hardcover. viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked for King Louis XV and traveled with the famous Madame de Pompadour on a study tour of Italy, and later toured the excavations of Herculaneum.
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Before Caligari: German Cinema, 1895-1920 / Prima di Caligari: Cinema Tedesco, 1895-1920

By: Codelli, Lorenzo; Horak, Jan-Christopher; Schlupmann, Heide; Smith, Bradford; Spiess, Eberhard; Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

Price: $200.00

Publisher: ., Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine / Le Giornate del Cinema Muto: 1990

Seller ID: 2198481

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Near fine in good jacket. Jacket edges lightly toned, light stain on jacket base, tiny spot on top page ridge. 1990 Hard Cover. 533 pp. Italian and English text. A retrospective of German silent films, taking its name from the 1920 silent horror filmDas Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (TheCabinet of Dr. Caligari), widely considered a masterpiece of the Expressionist style of cinema, and which film critic Siegfried Kracauer argued presaged Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Roger Ebert called it the first true horror film, and others argue that it heralded the age of cult films and arthouse ...
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Le Soldat Americain En France [The American Soldier In France] [FRENCH TEXT]

By: Coleman, Algernon; La Meslee, A. Marin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press: 1918

Seller ID: 2297563

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

FRENCH TEXT. 7th printing. No jacket. Front endpaper missing. 1918 Small Hard Cover. viii, 118 pp. French text. From the preface: This little book is the outcome of an effort to supply as quickly as possible the evident need for a reading and conversation book for soldier who will go to France [WWI}.
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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

By: Coleman, Terry

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2202821

ISBN: 0195147413

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very lightly foxed. Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. xix, 424 pp. Includes color and black-and-white illustrations. Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from hi...
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