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Lot 38•
NAVAL Establishment Book bearing the calligraphic title-page: "A List of his Majesty's Royal Navy", listing over 400 ships-of-the-line and frigates, [c.1810]
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Establishment Book bearing the calligraphic title-page: "A List of his Majesty's Royal Navy", listing over 400 ships-of-the-line and frigates, according to rating, plus numerous sloops and other unrated vessels, starting with the first-raters Britannia, Queen Charlotte, Royal George, Royal Sovereign, Victory, Ville de Paris, Hibernia, Commerce de Marseilles, and Nelson; followed by tabulated statistics of sample ships starting with the Victory, then by the establishment of anchors, guns, etc., plus sundry later jottings and insertions, c.160 pages, plus extensive blanks at the end, contemporary red morocco, both covers inlaid with a fouled anchor medallion in black morocco gilt, lacking clasps, slightly rubbed, 8vo, [c.1810]
Footnotes
An attractive record of the Naval Establishment during the Nelson era - establishing a precise date for the volume is not easy, as on the first page are listed the 126-gun ship Nelson (marked as being of 110 guns -- it was launched in 1814 but immediately laid up), as well as the 120-gun Commerce de Marseilles (which had in fact been broken up in 1802).