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63. THE EXECUTION OF ADMIRAL BYNG
with an eye witness account of the last moments of Admiral Byng ..He threw his Hat on the Deck, kneel’d on a Cushion, tied one Handkerchief over his Eyes, and dropped the other as a Signal, on which a Volley from Six Marines was fired, five of whose Bullets went through him, and he was in an Instant no more.., in an original issue of the London Chronicle (also known as The Universal Evening Post) for March 17, 1757, page 5 (261) cols 2-3 with a 47 line report, duty stamp to lower corner of page 2
£40-60
64. PAPERS RELATING TO SIR JAMES SAUMAREZ
1. The Sea Engagement…between the Crescent and the Re- Union….took place on Sunday last near Cherbourg, at a distance of less than a league and a half from the shore. The loss on board the French frigate was 118 killed and wounded, and not a single man hurt on board the Crescent, by the fire of the enemy….; The Crescent capturing La Reunion - First Report On Captain James Saumarez ship -- 7in. of column space, back page, column 2, in a complete issue of THE ORACLE, dated 26th of October 1793; also includes much of the Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette - Queen of France; 2. Copy of a Letter from Captain James Saumarez of His Majesty’s Ship Crescent, to Mr Stephens, dated off Cherbourg, the 20th of October, 1793 -- 4½in of column space, page 2, column 3, in a complete issue of THE ORACLE, dated 28th of October 1793
(2) £300-400
65. ‘THE BATTLE OF SOLEBAY’
issued for the Navy Records Society, 1901 after the original by William Van De Velde, printed in colour and linen-backed -- 14½ x 122½in. (37 x 3m.10cm.)
£150-250
66. 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.
£100-150
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