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Geoffrey & David Allen, The Guns of the Sacramento. London: Robin Garton, 1978.
Hardcover, dustwrapper, 81 pages, illustrations including colour.
Dustwrapper a bit scuffed and with slight crease and tear, owner's name and bookplate on the front free endpaper. Very good condition.
'The Portuguese galleon Sacramento was one of the great men o' war of the seventeenth century.' It sank off Sardinia Bay, near modern-day Port Elizabeth, in the year 1647. The bronze and iron cannon were salvaged in the 1970s after some brilliant detective work.