Our Naval War With France.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First edition. "Spoliation of American commerce by the French, and the resulting hostilities during the last years of the eighteenth century... continued in an acute form nearly three years, and amounted to actual war..." Known to us today as the Quasi War, 1798 - 1801. A detailed popular history.see Smith II 444. Light cover spotting and wear to spine ends, but a very good copy bound in publisher's blue cloth with gold decoration and lettering. Top edge gilt.. 12 x 20 cm. xii, (4 half title and map), 323 pp. b/w plates