Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First edition of the standard study of this complicated and fascinating international struggle against a group of North African states that supported piracy and kidnapping for ransom. The conflict lingered on, both before and after the War of 1812, and was only resolved after a kick-ass campaign by American naval hero Stephen Decatur. See Smith II, 445. Neeser 7942. This book is bound as issued in blue cloth, uniform with item #3, above. Top edge gilt, light wear. Very good condition.. 12 x 20 cm. xiii, 354 pp. b/w plates and map.