Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/42
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHIPWRECKS—continued. 853 Shipwreck in 1622.—Tratapo do SucEsso que teve a nao S. Joao Baptista, etc., por Francisco Vaz Dalmada, sm. 4to., calf (some margins little stained or repaired), Lisbon, 1625 47 A rare volume. The title being translated reads: ‘‘ An Account of the Mis- fortune that Befell the Ship Sao Joao Baptista, and of the Journey of those who escaped, from the place where she was wrecked on the Coast of the Cape of Good Hope, in Latitude 33°, to Sofala, tle whole of which Journey was performed by Land.” 854 ‘Ville de Paris.”—Avtuentic NARRATIVE of the Loss of the ‘‘ VittEe de Paris” . . . about Five Months after she was Captured from the Enemy in Glorious Victory, April 12th, 1782, foldiny frontispiece, sm. 8vo., cl., N.D. 8S 855 ‘‘ Wager.’—Anson (Lorp GEorGE) AFFECTING NARRATIVE of the UNFORTUNATE VOYAGE and CATASTROPHE of H.M.S. ‘““WaGER” .. . containing a Full Account of its being cast away on a Desolate Island... compiled from Authentic Journals and transmitted by Letter . . . from a Person who was an Eye-Witness, exhibiting a Compleat View of the Perils and Terrible Disasters which the Crew underwent... along the Vast Southern Coast of Patagonia and thro’ the Streights of Magellan . . . intermix’d with several Entertaining Pas- sages and Remarks, 8vo., contemporary calf, 1751 410 856 ‘‘ Wyton.”—Narrative of the Loss of the Sure ‘“‘ Wyron” (Capt. Collin- son), wrecked on the 23rd November, 1823, on the Island of Cape Breton, by Samuel Burrows, the Mate, frontespece, 12mo., cl., Hull, 1825 18s 857 Short Account of the Trur State of the Case of the Suepisu MERcHANT- Fieet, lately brought up, on their Voyage from France, by Admiral Rooke, and sent into Plimouth, sm. 4to., calf, 1697 £2 15s It was claimed that the Swedish ships were clandestinely helping the French, hence the seizure. 858 Shuldham (Molyneux) The DresparcHses of Motynevux SauLpHAM, VICr- ApMiRAL ofthe BLUE and CoMMANDER-in-Cu1gEF of His Brirannic MaJgEsty’s Sues in NortH AMERICA, January to July, 1776, ed. by R. W. Neeser, with front., 8vo., hf. vellum, Naval History Society, New York, 1913 £1 859 Siege of Acre.—Two Views of the Arrack of St. JEAN D’AcRE, coloured lithographs by W. Knell after F. K. Hawkins, each stze 24 by 15 in. (engraved surfaces 204 by 10 zn.) (tear tn one plate mended), Ackermann, 1841 BS (1) Represents the Fleet going into Action (2) Represents the Bombardment and Explosion 860 Signal-book for the Ships of War; together with Instructions for the Conpucr of the Suips of War, explanatory of and relative to the Signals contained in the Signal-book herewith delivered, 2 vols, 4to., boards, N.p. (ec. 1794) £3 The Signal Book lacks one leaf, vz 861 Sims (Rear-Admiral W. 8.) The Vicrory at Sega, portrait and plans, 8vo., cl., 1920 6s 862 Slave Ship.—Descrietion of a Suave Sup, broadside, 2 ft. by 193 in., with plans and sections, London, printed by James Phallips, 1789 (slightly damaged at folds) | 15s
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