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Admiral Horatio Nelson Prepares His Fleet for Battle: His Order of Sailing, Written and Sent to His Captain as He Prepared to Meet the Enemy by Horatio Nelson

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: Admiral Horatio Nelson Prepares His Fleet for Battle: His Order of Sailing, Written and Sent to His Captain as He Prepared to Meet the Enemy
Author: Horatio Nelson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 10/04/1797. This document was sold by famed autograph dealer Walter Benjamin in 1911 Horatio Nelson is a towering figure in history and perhaps the greatest naval figure of all time. A brilliant tactician, original strategist, fearless fighter and inspiring leader, he reveled in his celebrity, and enjoyed a scandalous extra-marital affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton.At sea, ‘the Nelson touch', as it was called, is evident in his strategic memos to his captains. To Nelson, a major part of his strategy was to line his ship’s up in a particular order that he pre-determined. This order of sailing would then be continued into battle, so making the determination of an order of sailing was a major part of his strategic thinking. For example, before the Battle of Trafalgar, he spent the entire forenoon employed in forming the Fleet into the Order of Sailing.In his memo to his captains before Trafalgar, Nelson specified his plans to keep the order of sailing as the order of battle (in this case keeping the fleet in two columns of 16 ships each) and plans to break the enemy line into two or three sections in order to stand a greater chance of victory). Nelson's last dispatch read: “At daylight saw the Enemy's Combined Fleet from East to E.S.E.; bore away; made the signal for Order of Sailing, and to Prepare for Battle…” His Order of Sailing document for Trafalgar is the only one we had ever seen, and it is in a private collection in England, with copies to his captains in public institutions.Now we have seen another - an extremely rare order of sailing document, as he prepared for battle, this one completely in Nelson’s hand.In February 1797 the British defeated a Spanish fleet near Cape St. Vincent, mainly because, without orders from his superior Admiral John Jervis, Nelson hauled out of line and attacked the head of the second Spanish division. While the rest of Jervis’ fleet slowly turned and came up in support, Nelson held the two Spanish squadrons apart, at one time fighting seven enemy ships. The Battle of Cape St. Vincent won for Jervis the earldom of St. Vincent and for Nelson a knighthood. But the action failed to strike a solid blow against the Spanish Navy, which somewhat battered, fled to Cadiz in southern Spain. Admiral Jervis was then ordered to subdue and blockade that city. They did, but coastal batteries in Cadiz opened fire, joined by Spanish warships anchored at harbor, and drove the attackers back, causing the British to lose grip over the blockade. In April 1797 Nelson was stationed off Cadiz, ready to attack and on the lookout for French and Spanish squadrons. On April 10, he wrote “I hope soon the good people of England will have something to talk about, more recent victories, for if our ships are but carried close by the officers, I will answer for a British fleet always being successful.” He readied himself for battle, knowing enemy ships were nearby.Autograph document signed, to Captain Samuel Hood ""On Board His Majesty's Ship Captain,"" off Cadiz, April 10, 1797, assigning an order of sailing for his squadron while on lookout for the foe. The document is entitled ""Order of Sailing”, listing his flagship, the HMS, Captain, followed by the Irresistible, Zealous, Orion, Colossus, and the Culloden. He adds interestingly that the ""French National Flag will be used as a recall Flag.""Also in April Jervis shifted his gaze to Tenerife in the Canary Islands upon hearing that Spanish treasure convoys from America arrived regularly at that island. The admiral sent two frigates which surprised and caught two French and Spanish vessels in a night-time raid. Encouraged by this success, in July Jervis dispatched a small squadron under Nelson with the aim of seizing Santa Cruz, Tenerife’s capital. In battle there, Nelson was wounded in the arm, which was subsequently partially amputated.This is a perhaps unique Nelson Order of Sailing in private hands, other than that of Trafalgar which is not on the market.

Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (Inscribed) by [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Taylor & Hessey]; Jane Taylor

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Title: Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (Inscribed)
Author: [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Taylor & Hessey]; Jane Taylor
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Fourth edition. A superb example. Twelvemo (6 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 162 x 98 mm.). [2, blank], [iv], [1]-174, [2 blank] pp. Inscribed by the author on the first blank: "Wiggiston[?] from J. Taylor." Bound ca. 1820 by [Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, London] in full maroon straight-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins, lilac endpapers, all edges gilt. With a fine contemporary fore-edge painting by Taylor & Hessey depicting a view of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire. English novelist and poet, Jane Taylor (1783-1824) perhaps better known for her collaborative authorship with her sister Ann, was the voice behind "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Taylor's verses have been here delightfully bound by Taylor and Hessey. The Firm was at its height between 1808-1823, working in both publishing and fine bindings. Their work is usually identifiable from their use of colored Morocco and gilt-stamp name on the foredge of their book boards. Taylor & Hessey also employed a foredge painter, whose identity remains lost, but whose work predominantly features buildings and landscapes. Of the twenty-four books in American libraries studied by Weber, only one exception can be found in the "copy of Mrs. Tighe's Psyche (London, 1811), on the fore-edge of which 'the Marlborough Gem' is painted" (Weber). Here the fore-edge painting depicts the old Premonstratensian Welbeck Abbey in the Dukeries in North Nottinghamshire. The ancient monastery, founded by Thomas de Cuckney in 1140, appears in the famous Domesday Book.

Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de M. De Boze by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: BOZE)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de M. De Boze
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: BOZE)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Engraved headpiece. 1 p.l., x, 552 pp. 8vo, cont. mottled sheep (some rubbing & minor wear), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: G. Martin et al., 1753. The posthumously issued inventory catalogue — prepared for an en bloc sale — of the famous collection formed by Claude Gros de Boze (1680-1753), the renowned academician and savant. It was an excellent library, notable for its block books and incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible (lot 18); this catalogue provides the best idea of its contents. Following the publication of the catalogue, two collectors — Boutin and Cotte — purchased the whole library, retaining the books which they desired for their own collections and selling certain precious incunabula to Gaignat. They then turned over the remainder to Gabriel Martin to sell by auction the following year. Our copy of the 1753 catalogue, which Archer Taylor considered to be one of Gabriel Martin’s best efforts, contains valuations in a contemporary hand alongside each lot. Fine copy. ❧ Brunet, I, 1642. Gustave Brunet, Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, col. 424. Roland Folter, “The Gutenberg Bible in the Antiquarian Book Trade,” in Incunabula. Studies in Fifteenth-Century Printed Books presented to Lotte Hellinga, p. 275. Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions…1643-1830, 104. Peignot, pp. 83-84. Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 233.

No Longer at Ease by Achebe, Chinua

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Title: No Longer at Ease
Author: Achebe, Chinua
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1960. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. [vi], 170 pp. Bound in publisher's dark red cloth with spine lettered in light peach. Very Good with lean to binding, foxing to text block edges and contents. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with slight fading and tanning to spine, moderate foxing to covers, and damp staining to left edge of rear cover; corner crease to front flap. The Nigerian author's second novel chronicling the disillusionment of post-colonial society as seen through Obi Okonkwo, a young civil servant educated in England and grandson of Ogbuefi Okonkwo, the main protagonist in Achebe's famous debut novel, Things Fall Apart (1958).

The Sot-Weed Factor by Barth, John

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Title: The Sot-Weed Factor
Author: Barth, John
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First edition. Yellow and blue cloth. A fine copy in dust jacket (designed by Edward Gorey).The jacket has a one-inch closed tear at the bottom edge of the spine.

DICKENS' NEW STORIES [first U.S. edition of "The Seven Poor Travellers"] by Dickens, Charles

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Title: DICKENS' NEW STORIES [first U.S. edition of "The Seven Poor Travellers"]
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1855. Containing: The Seven Poor Travellers. Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire. Hard Times... With a Portrait of the Author, engraved on steel. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, n.d. [1855]. Original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped, with spine vignette in gilt. First Edition so collected, first issue (in the dark brown binding with spine vignette in gilt, "T.B. Peterson" at the foot of the spine, and 102 Chestnut Street as the title page address). Although the volume consists of six works "by Dickens," the last three are not ("Lizzie Leigh," "The Miner's Daughters" and "Fortune Wildred"). The first two pieces in the volume, which really do involve Dickens, are "The Seven Poor Travellers" and "Nine New Stories by the Christmas Fire": these were the "Extra Christmas Numbers" of Dickens's periodical Household Words for 1854 and 1853 respectively. "Nine New Stories" is the American title for "Another Round of Stories": of the stories, Dickens himself wrote "The Schoolboy's Story" and "Nobody's Story." For "The Seven Poor Travellers," this constitutes the first American edition, published soon after it came out in London for Christmas 1854; Dickens himself wrote "the First Poor Traveller" and "The Road." Finally, Dickens's novel HARD TIMES is also included in this volume, in its entirety; it had been serialized in Household Words during 1854, and this is a very early (but not first) American edition of it. This copy is in near-fine condition (very light wear at the spine ends). See Podeschi D25.

Parables for the Theater: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht, Bertolt

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Title: Parables for the Theater: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Author: Brecht, Bertolt
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780679401612
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. English version by Eric and Maja Bentley. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped but struck-through ($3.50), generally toned and rubbed, a chip at the bottom edge of the back panel. Black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book appearance in any language of these two plays by the author of The Threepenny Opera.

Ghost Railroads of Indiana by Sulzer, Elmer G

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Title: Ghost Railroads of Indiana
Author: Sulzer, Elmer G
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: Vane A. Jones Co., [1970] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations throughout. Very good in lightly chipped dust jacket with some uneven browning to spine.

Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts by Blodgett, Ruth

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Title: Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts
Author: Blodgett, Ruth
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Good in Good dj
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good in Good dj. (c.1929). Unstated edition. Hardcover. [solid but shelfworn copy, top corners bumped/cracked (boards exposed), bottom corners less so, some discoloration to first few pages and last few pages of book, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; jacket worn, various small tears, soiling to rear panel, minor paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends]. "Young and self-confident, Rosanne is transplanted from her native New York to New England. She has married into the Porter family, and with good-natured curiosity she examines her new relatives -- sound New England stock from north of Boston, whose reliability and well-being are explained by the family shoe factory, founded by 'Gran' Porter in the early days. But their stiff-necked ways are not her ways; and after the first shattering ecstasy of her love for Alec has subsided, she decides to do something about it. Too late the Porter family realize what is going to happen; helplessly, they stand and watch." Striking (but uncredited) dust jacket design. .

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