NAVAL FLAGS & SIGNALS
comprising an undated (early 19th century?) tabulated manuscript signal book containing two hand-coloured flag plates, one titled 'Port Admiral's Portsmouth, Telegraph Flags', original worn calf (lacking spine); Complete and Universal Dictionary of Signals for the Boats of Her Majesty's Fleet...... 2nd ed., London, 1851, containing several hand-coloured flag and compass plates, disbound but apparently complete; Bentley's Complete Phrase Code, a later American edition of the 1909 reprint, original black cloth; together with a quantity of colour-printed plates from two of the greatest British naval flag publications, Drawings of the Flags in use at the Present Time by Various Nations, Admiralty, various editions, late 19th/early 20th centuries, and Hounsell's Flags & Signals of All Nations, London, undated (but circa 1873), some of the large and impressive latter plates in cream card mounts ready for framing
(a lot)

Bentley's Phrase Code (and others) was devised to enable mariners in foreign ports to send home the briefest of telegrams and thereby make substantial savings on telegram costs.

Condition Report
Generally good, the books have some wear to covers and spines.

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