A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of his Life. Fifth Edition, Containing some New Letters.

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2 volumes. 12mo. (18.25 x 10.5 cm). pp.xx+384; 439. Full contemporary calf by Hayday, sides ruled with double-gilt fillets, spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, complementary green and red morocco labels to each spine, the green label gilt-decorated and with inlaid red morocco roundel, green silk ribbon page-markers, marbled endpapers and edges. 2 folding engraved plans of naval battles. Near contemporary presentation to flyleaf reading: "Charles Warren Markham from his Tutor. March 27. 1848". Light rubbing and shelfwear to bindings, light spotting to plates, contents clean and sound, generally a very good set in handsome bindings by Hayday. Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (1748-1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands. At Trafalgar on 21 October, with thirty-three French and Spanish ships facing twenty-seven British, Collingwood led the lee column. His flagship was the first to engage the enemy 'See how that noble fellow, Collingwood, carries his ship into action!', exclaimed Nelson (J. Ralfe, Naval Biography of Great Britain, 1828, 2.342).

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Titel

A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of his Life. Fifth Edition, Containing some New Letters.

Verlag

LondonJames Ridgway and Sons Piccadilly .

Erscheinungsjahr

1837

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Hardcover

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