Preble on the American flag

PREBLE ON THE AMERICAN FLAG. PREBLE, GEORGE HENRY. History of the Flag of the United States of America, and of the Naval and Yacht-Club Signals, Seals, and Arms, and Principal National Songs of the United States, with a Chronicle of the Symbols, Standards, Banners, and Flags of Ancient and Modern Nations. By Geo. Henry Preble, Rear-Admiral U. S. N. Third Edition. Illustrated with Ten Colored Plates, Two Hundred Engravings on Wood, and Maps and Autographies. Boston, James B. Osgood and Company, 1882.
8vo. 252 x 180 mm. XXII, 808 pp. 1 engraved portrait, 10 colour lithographed plates. Somewhat worn and slightly stained publisher´s decorated cloth. Occasional minor foxing.

Third edition, a reprint of the second from 1880. First edition was published in 1872, with the title "Our Flag, Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States".

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