THE BATTLE OF THE NILE
[NELSON
(Horatio, Viscount, 1758-1805, Admiral)]
Fine and evocative Contemporary Copy of his official list of the English and French Forces at the BATTLE OF THE NILE,
fought 1st-3rd August 1798, with copy signature 'HORATIO NELSON', naming the 14 English vessels, headed by his flagship 'Vanguard' (74), their numbers of guns, men, killed and wounded, and the 19 French vessels, headed by Brueys' flagship 'L'Orient' (120), with their numbers of guns and men, also 'How dispos'd of', mostly Taken (11), the rest Burnt (3), Sunk (1) or Escaped, headed by 'Le Guillaume Tell' [Counter-Admiral Villeneuve], (4), while the French survivors 'Sent on shore ... as by Certificates from Captain Barry of L'Hecate Bomb', Escaped from the Timoleon ... L'Hecate Bomb, Officers, Carpenters, Caulkers, &c Prisoners aboard the Fleet, total only 3708 out of 8930, contemporary title on side 4 in Italian, 1 side large oblong folio and conjugate leaf, Vanguard, 13th September
Item Date:
1798
Stock No:
55712
£2750
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[NELSON
(Horatio, Viscount, 1758-1805, Admiral)]
Fine Large Unsigned Engraved Portrait,
showing him standing full length, nearly fill face with his eyes to the viewer's right, his left hand resting on a table (hinted at in the engraving), his right sleeve loose across his waist, bareheaded in full dress uniform, 19½" x 12½", printed in Paris and published by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. of Pall Mall East, London, 5th December
Item Date:
1881
Stock No:
56260
£375
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[NELSON
(Horatio, Viscount, 1758-1805, Admiral)]
Letter in the third person in the hand of his chaplain and foreign language secretary Alexander John SCOTT
(1768-1840), to Agostino MILLELIRE, Commander of the Port at La Maddalena, Sardinia, in French with translation, inviting him "to dine on board his ship next Sunday" and at the same time "not to give himself the trouble of coming aboard tomorrow morning", with a P.S. requesting that Millelire "bring with him the Officer of the Garrison commanding the Troops", 1 side 4to. and conjugate blank, no place but on board Victory at La Maddalena, 'Thursday 27th' (?really 25th) January no year but
(Translation)
Milord Viscount Nelson presents his Compliments to Comandante Millelire and requests him to dine on board his ship next Sunday, at the same time he prays the Comandante not to give himself the trouble of coming aboard tomorrow morning.
Thursday 27th January [1804].
The Comandante is also asked to be so kind as to bring with him the Officer of the Garrison commanding the Troops.
Item Date:
1804
Stock No:
55714
£1200
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A FRAGMENT OF THE CANOPY FROM NELSON'S FUNERAL BARGE
[NELSON
(Horatio, Viscount, 1758-1805, Admiral)]
Small piece of red silk with contemporary note of provenance
"A piece of the canopy of the state barge (loaned by Geo the third) which conveyed the body of Nelson from Greenwich to Somerset House, This barge was since presented by Queen Victoria to the Victory", together with a contemporary mourning envelope with a similar note, the cloth 3" x 2", framed and glazed in a black frame with a purple velvet mount,
Item Date:
1805
Stock No:
38818
£4750
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NEWTON
(Thomas Wodehouse Legh, M.P., 1857-1942, 2nd Baron, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Controller, Prisoners of War Department, 1916-1919)
Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1842-1929, Lord Chancellor
(1916-1919) saying that they "have tried quite unsuccessfully hitherto to get the Turks to exchange prisoners; but the Cabinet decided to-day to send me to confer with them in Switzerland ... This officer's case would of course be considered", 1 side 8vo., 6 Belgrave Square, S.W.1., 10th August
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
18631
£40
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