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‘THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, KB, FROM HIS LORDSHIP’S MANUSCRIPTS’
by James Stanier Clark and John McArthur London, 1809, first edition, in two volumes, complete with plates bound between full calf boards (spines restored)
(2, a set) £400-600
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NO LOT 64.
64 (part) 60. NELSON LOSES AN EYE
…The Town of Calvi surrendered to His Majesty’s Forces on the 10th Instant, after a siege of fifty-one days…The Regiments embarked at Bastia, and Captain Nelson, of His Majesty’s Ship Agamemnon, consented, in Lord Hood’s absence, to proceed to Port Agra… With very detailed lists of the articles of capitulation, killed and wounded, and the ordnance captured in the garrison and outworks, from Lt-General Charles Stuart’s Official Report of the combined Army and Navy operation, in a complete issue devoted to the Capitulation of Calvi of The London Gazette Extraordinary dated for September 2nd, 1794.
£400-600 61.
NELSON’S VICTORY AT TRAFALGAR
Very lengthy, detailed, and excellent accounts of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in several different articles, and continuing in the next day’s newspaper. Reports include: Part 1: The Action Report (20in. of column space); The Gibraltar Chronicle Report (16in. of column space); The Official Spanish Report (20in. of column space); Account of Admiral Villeneuve, and British prisoner conditions (7½in. of column space); Admiralty Office Report on enemy ships taken (3in. of column space); Part 2: The Gibraltar Chronicle Report continues (21in. of column space); An account of the fate of ships sailed from Cadiz, including the Bucentaure (17in. of column space); Announcement of Day of Thanksgiving of Victory (3in. of column space); Portsmouth news reports return of the Victory and remains of Nelson (1in. of column space) comprising a total -- 108½in. (205.5cm.) of column space, in two complete issues of The English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post dated for November 30th-December 5th, 1805
(2) £1000-1500
66. A 19TH-CENTURY PAPIER-MÂCHÉ TRAY
painted with an Anglo-French naval battle, the edge gilt lined and with mother-of-pearl inlay -- 24in. (61cm.) diameter £150-250
AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY REVERSE-GLASS PRINT COMMEMORATING NELSON’S FUNERAL
A correct representation of the funeral car which conveyed the body of Lord Nelson ., published by W.B. Walker, 4th February 1806, contained within a period frame -- overall measurements 15¾ x 20in. (40 x 51cm.); together with a further two examples, now with cracked plates
£200-300 65.
‘THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON FROM HIS LORDSHIP’S MANUSCRIPTS’
by James Stanier Clark and John McArthur London 1840, in three volumes, complete with plates bound between green leather boards with decorated spines
(3, a set) £150-250
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