A Voyage Up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, One of the Squadron under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. Now Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile and Duke of Bronte in Sicily. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798, and a detail of events that occurred subsequent to the Battle in various parts of the Mediterranean. -
Rev. Cooper Willyams
1802 - Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, London - First Edition
A full margined copy, scarce in the original paper boards. With engraved dedication page and coat of arms of Vice Admiral Earl of St. Vincent, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, folding aquatint chart of the Mediterranean, and forty-one beautiful aquatint plates after drawings by Willyams.
Willyams, both Chaplain and artist, with Nelson’s fleet, provides what is considered one of the most authentic accounts of the Battle of the Nile (1798) and the naval campaign that had raged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte. A pivotal battle that destroyed the best of the French navy, which was weakened for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars.
Includes visits to Sicily, Naples, Leghorn, Florence, Bologna, Padua and Venice, in 1798-99. References: Abbey, Travel, 196.
Folio (book size 31x25cm), pp. [2 (title page)] [2 (engraved dedication page)] iii-xxiii [1 (errata)] 309 [1]. In original publisher’s blue-grey paper boards, possibly original white paper spine, later endpapers and white paper spine label lettered in black, edges untrimmed.
Condition: Fine, offsetting from plates to text, in very good boards, wear to edges, browning to white paper spine, renewed endpapers. Ref: 111883 Price: HK$ 13,000
Willyams, both Chaplain and artist, with Nelson’s fleet, provides what is considered one of the most authentic accounts of the Battle of the Nile (1798) and the naval campaign that had raged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte. A pivotal battle that destroyed the best of the French navy, which was weakened for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars.
Includes visits to Sicily, Naples, Leghorn, Florence, Bologna, Padua and Venice, in 1798-99. References: Abbey, Travel, 196.
Folio (book size 31x25cm), pp. [2 (title page)] [2 (engraved dedication page)] iii-xxiii [1 (errata)] 309 [1]. In original publisher’s blue-grey paper boards, possibly original white paper spine, later endpapers and white paper spine label lettered in black, edges untrimmed.
Condition: Fine, offsetting from plates to text, in very good boards, wear to edges, browning to white paper spine, renewed endpapers. Ref: 111883 Price: HK$ 13,000