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78 pages. Features: Simcoe's Legacy - Ontario, Toronto, and the Queen's Rangers; The Hague Porcelain - a brief history and description of The Hague porcelain; Georgian Elegance in Canada; Prologue to Toronto - The Town of York, 1793-1834; Straw Weaving - Revived in Saskatchewan; David and His Harp - An Historic Canadian Organ Case in Chicago; Trafalgar Lodge - a rare example of Gothic Revival in Montreal; English Silver - The French Connection. Light wear. Sound copy. Book
2006LFA-126722462Revue de 32 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text, terracotta cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series. First issued in 1987. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 333pp. The story of Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson's best friend and hero, renowned for his seamanship and giunnery, it was Admiral Collingwood who opened the Battle of Trafalgar where he was second in command to Nelson.
xii, 416 pages. Index. All black and white plates and maps present. "The Austerlitz campaign, one of Napoleon's very best, was fought a hundred years ago, and would have been fought under very different conditions in our days. Nevertheless it contains many of the fundamental principles of the art of war, acknowledged rules of action which hold good just as much now as they did in the early part of the nineteenth century." - from Preface. Average wear to dark green boards handsomely adorned with clearly legible gilt. Unmarked. Binding intact. Considerable lean to spine. Tiny bookseller's tag inside front board. A quality copy. Book
1805AQ24447London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printer's to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1805. 11pp 1. Uncut and stitched as issued. Very occasional light spotting. A crisp copy of the sole edition of a liturgy to be used on the day of national thanksgiving in celebration of the British victory at Trafalgar. The general order nominating the day of thanksgiving was signed by Nelson's second-in-command at the battle Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood 1748-1810 off Cape Trafalgar 22nd October 1805. The date was made official on 6th November. OCLC records copies at 10 locations Cambridge Edinburgh Ernest and Bernice Styberg Library John Kinder Theological Library Manchester Missouri-Columbia Morgan NYPL Princeton and Texas; COPAC adds no further. . First edition. Quarto. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printer's to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown
AQ30304s.i.: s.n. s.d. 1843 Brown card with embossed ornamental border white gilt-edged card onlay decorated with a depiction of Nelson’s final flag semaphore signal. Manuscript inscription to verso: 'Presented to the Naval Committee at the Trafalgar Hotel with Mr. P. Scott's best compliments. Norwich. Oct. 21st 1843'. A Victorian commemorative card celebrating the victory of the Royal Navy at Trafalgar on 21st October 1805 featuring a stylised representation of Nelson’s famous final flag semaphore signal: 'England expects every man will do his duty' which originally adorned the title page of the second volume of Joseph Allen's Battles of the British Navy London 1842. . Dimensions 230 x 90 mm. [s.n.], [s.d., 1843?] unknown