Viscount Horatio Nelson

BATTLE OF THE NILE. Manuscript log of HMS Swiftsure, off Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterranean, 9 February - 27 December 1798, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE ON 1-2 AUGUST, allegorical drawing depicting 'Time' on f.2, 11 topographical watercolours on two further leaves depicting features chiefly on the coasts of southern Italy and Sicily, 37 leaves, folio (ff.1-2 detached, a few others partially detached, even browning fo ff.23v and 24r affecting part of the description of the battle), marbled paper wrappers (detached, crudely rebacked).

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GBP 30,000

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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Two autograph letters signed ('Nelson and Bronte' and 'Nelson & Bronte' respectively) on a single bifolium to an unidentified recipient, [ALMOST CERTAINLY EMMA HAMILTON], [San Josef, Torbay], ‘2 o'clock Tuesday’ and ‘Ten o'clock Monday night’ [9 and 10 February 1801], 2¼ pages, 4to (207 x 201mm), (the first leaf excised at the bottom, loss of the first and perhaps second line of the 10 February letter and the same amount on the verso, about ¼ of the second leaf remaining). Provenance: dating endorsement in a hand close to that of William Nelson (1757-1837, 1st Earl Nelson), the Admiral's elder brother, on the verso.

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GBP 27,500

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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), A LOVE LETTER TO EMMA HAMILTON, Portsmouth, 27 February 1801, one page, 4to, integral address leaf, addressed in autograph to 'Lady Hamilton 23 Piccadilly London' and signed ('Nelson'), postal markings, seal on red wax (seal tear, remnants of guards, split along fold between the two leaves and repaired on blank verso, short split at fold from left margin). Provenance: Alfred Morrison collection, no. 529.

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GBP 13,750

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Christie’s roundel

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GBP 11,250

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