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174 - BATTLE OF THE NILE: A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS FOR NELSON’S ‘BAND OF BROTHERS’
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£500 - 800 (€590 - 960)Sale fees
BATTLE OF THE NILE: A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS FOR NELSON’S ‘BAND OF BROTHERS’ the signatures on various documents dated from 1796 to 1804 comprise: Capt. Edward Berry (Nelsons’s flag captain), Capt. Alexander Ball, Capt. Davidge Gould, Capt. Henry D'Esterre Darby, Capt. Thomas Troubridge, Capt. John Peyton, Capt. Thomas Foley, Capt. Thomas Boulden Thompson, Capt. George Blagdon Westcott (killed during the battle), Capt. Thomas Louis, Capt. Sir James Saumarez (Nelson’s second in command), Capt. Benjamin Hallowell, Capt. Ralph Willett Miller, Capt. Samuel Hood and Lt. Thomas Hardy. The signed documents mounted on buff card mounts; together with a manuscript address label written in Nelson’s right hand addressed “On His Majesty’s Service. To George Oakes Esqr. Captain of His Majesty’s Ship Seahorse”; and a letterpress account ‘The Battle of the Nile, August 1, 1798’, 12pp., 4to, [c. 1830s], and 19th-century engravings of Nelson (4), Troubridge and Hardy, The collection mounted on buff card mounts, recto and verso, housed loose in a large folio modern custom-made folding box (A lot) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.
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