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SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703)
Memoires relating to the state of the Royal Navy of England, for ten years, determin'd December 1688 / by [Samuel Pepys]
1690RCIN 1059338
The frontispiece shows a portrait of Pepys, by R. White after G. Kneller. This same portrait was used by Pepys as a bookplate in his copy of Sir Winston Churchill's Divi Britannici.