

Bring your auction to collectors worldwide!
Get listed now
Bring your auction to collectors worldwide!
Get listed now
All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / Royal Navy. Clerk (John, of Eldin, Fellow of the Scottish So...


Royal Navy. Clerk (John, of Eldin, Fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh), An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical. With Explanatory Plates, four parts, second edition, first collected trade edition thus, Edinburgh: Printed for Archd. Constable & Co., London: T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804, half-title, complete, collating: [vi], xv, [1] (blank), [vii]-xv, [1] (binder's direction), [5]-287, [1]pp (blank), illustrated with 52 partially hand-coloured plates as called for, of which Plate I: Part II bound upside down and prematurely out of sequence at p. 165 rather than 172, contemporary speckled calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, split, 4to Provenance: Henry Hammond (1786-1860), of Albury Park, Surrey, banker and politician; his armorial bookplate.
Estimate:$198.42
To the auctionView all items fromEASYLIVEAUCTIONorBooks, Maps & Manuscripts
Estimate:
$198.42
Parliamentary Navy 1646-52, four documents of Naval subject:1646 (4
09/24/2026
$1,722.89
Est: $808.89


Bring your auction to collectors worldwide!
Get listed now
1616-58, an interesting group (7) of Parliamentary orders, warrants
09/24/2026
$1,060.24
Est: $1,348.15
Oliver Cromwell 1648 (22 May) document issued at Staverton regarding
09/24/2026
$4,771.08
Est: $1,617.78
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Baron - The Bishop's War - Scotland 1639 (17
09/24/2026
$1,259.03
Est: $539.26