30th Apr, 2014 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Seraph)

 
  Lot 39
 

39

[M] NAVAL LISTS<br/>printed by W. Clowes for John...

NAVAL LISTS
printed by W. Clowes for John Murray for 1834; 1841 and 1844, bound in one volume with cloth boards (later); together with original newspaper issues comprising the Edinburgh Advertiser for 7/12/1798 detailing the capture and treatment of Capt. Edward Berry on the Généreux plundered of every article save the clothes on their backs..; The Lancaster Gazette for 21/12/1805 with reports of Nelson's body arriving off Deal (.. His Majesties ship, with their flags half staff high..) and Napoleon's military defeats by the Austro-Russian armies; The London Chronicle for 13/5/1806 with a lengthy description of Benjamin West's picture of the "Death of Nelson"; and two late 19th-Century photographs of a crowd at the launch of a ram-bowed battle ship [unidentified]; and a glass lantern slide of HMS Queen Elizabeth
(7, a lot)

Sold for £248
Estimated at £200 - £300

(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)


Condition Report
Books sold not subject to return.

Lists appear complete, title page browned, repaired; binding rubbed; papers are from broken folios, fragile spines but good for age; photographs have been rolled and are on thin paper, some tears, creasing; slide is good.

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NAVAL LISTS
printed by W. Clowes for John Murray for 1834; 1841 and 1844, bound in one volume with cloth boards (later); together with original newspaper issues comprising the Edinburgh Advertiser for 7/12/1798 detailing the capture and treatment of Capt. Edward Berry on the Généreux plundered of every article save the clothes on their backs..; The Lancaster Gazette for 21/12/1805 with reports of Nelson's body arriving off Deal (.. His Majesties ship, with their flags half staff high..) and Napoleon's military defeats by the Austro-Russian armies; The London Chronicle for 13/5/1806 with a lengthy description of Benjamin West's picture of the "Death of Nelson"; and two late 19th-Century photographs of a crowd at the launch of a ram-bowed battle ship [unidentified]; and a glass lantern slide of HMS Queen Elizabeth
(7, a lot)
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