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Dispatches & letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson.
by NELSON / NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (Editor):
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Henry Colburn 1845 / 1846 (1st. editions).. 7 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue leather bindings with elaborate gold decorations and lettering on spines. Marbled boards, edges & endpapers. In good condition. Leather a little rubbed to edge & on raised bands. Each volume with private bookplate on front endpaper & name inscription head of half title. Inside some tanning, a few pages early on in each volume have a little bleeding top edge. Else generally clean & tight. Size 8.5 x 5.5 inches Portrait, folding plans, 4 sets facsimile letters. "This is the standard work of reference for Nelson's correspondence and the principal source from which his biographers have drawn (and still do draw) their material. It contains some 3,500 letters, including what are now the Nelson and Bridport Papers at the British Library, but not the Nelson Papers at the Nelson Museum, Monmouth.." In volume 1 are added more letters in Dr M'Arthur's possession , amongst others, to the edition published 1844.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94657
- Title
- Dispatches & letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson.
- Author
- NELSON / NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (Editor):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Colburn 1845 / 1846 (1st. editions).
- Keywords
- Military Subjects Naval history Military naval nelson letters trafalgar maritime
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Marbled boards
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