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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 3501272, member: 13761&quot;]Ah, the proper title is very helpful. A quick check on Abebooks shows some 29 earlier editions:</p><p><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&amp;bx=off&amp;cm_sp=sort-_-SRP-_-Results&amp;ds=30&amp;n=100121503&amp;recentlyadded=all&amp;sortby=2&amp;tn=Regulations%20for%20the%20Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Navy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&amp;bx=off&amp;cm_sp=sort-_-SRP-_-Results&amp;ds=30&amp;n=100121503&amp;recentlyadded=all&amp;sortby=2&amp;tn=Regulations%20for%20the%20Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Navy" rel="nofollow">https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&amp;bx=off&amp;cm_sp=sort-_-SRP-_-Results&amp;ds=30&amp;n=100121503&amp;recentlyadded=all&amp;sortby=2&amp;tn=Regulations for the Government of the United States Navy</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many are offered by one Stan Clark, whom I don&#039;t know, but as a specialist in military books, I&#039;d count him a good benchmark. I note he seems more interested in who owned it than its date, so research into R. T. Boynton might be fruitful. That said, it&#039;s interesting that there are no editions after 1909 for sale on Abebooks - I don&#039;t know why Great War-era ones should be scarcer: you&#039;d think there would be more printed during wartime - or if they retitled it after 1917. And the look at the contents strengthens my view that this was intended for lawyers and high officers, so perhaps not so many were printed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a side note, Worldcat, recommended by Figtree3, is what is called a union catalog, combining the holdings of many libraries as an aid to researchers. There&#039;s also a British version, obtusely called JISC: <a href="https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/</a></p><p>and Canada&#039;s Voila: <a href="https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/search/Pages/library-search.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/search/Pages/library-search.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/search/Pages/library-search.aspx</a>. I assume there are also European comparables. I find them useful but often maddeningly vague, as the priorities of library catalogers and booksellers are quite different![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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