Lot 49
Naval Signals.- Greenwood (Jonathan) The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals As they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain, engraved throughout, 1715.
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Naval Signals.- Greenwood (Jonathan) The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals As they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain, engraved throughout with portrait frontispiece, title, 2pp. dedication and 70 plates, many with contemporary partial hand-colouring, contemporary panelled sheep, joints and spine ends slightly worn, 12mo, [c.1715].
⁂ An excellent copy of this charming book, dedicated to six Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, including Sir George Byng, whose son John, also an Admiral, was famously executed in 1757 "pour encourager les autres", as Voltaire put it in Candide.
Description
Naval Signals.- Greenwood (Jonathan) The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals As they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain, engraved throughout with portrait frontispiece, title, 2pp. dedication and 70 plates, many with contemporary partial hand-colouring, contemporary panelled sheep, joints and spine ends slightly worn, 12mo, [c.1715].
⁂ An excellent copy of this charming book, dedicated to six Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, including Sir George Byng, whose son John, also an Admiral, was famously executed in 1757 "pour encourager les autres", as Voltaire put it in Candide.
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