18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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2111
[Royal Navy]
A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: With the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear Admirals, and Captains, 1st January 1793, includes Captain Horatio Nelson, commissioned 11 June 1779, the first part gives a chronological list of commissions, the second gives the officers in alphabetical order, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt (joints starting);
Steel, Steel's List of the Royal Navy: To June 1807, half calf retaining original printed wraps (pages tanned and worn at edges up to text in places) (2)
Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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Tuesday 17 May 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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