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PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since March 22, 2001
Tall hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and crest to front. In grey dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW some tanning and handling marks, rubbing to edges and ends of spine, a couple of small tears to rear edge. Not price clipped.) Top corner bumped on cover. A couple of newspaper clippings pasted to endpapers. 24pp ?Lloyd?s Log? Magazine attached at main title page. Some minor foxing spots to page edges else pages and plates all very clean and tight. 525pp. Illustrated with 21 full-page B&W plates. Seller Inventory # 100888
Title: The Nelson Collection at Lloyd's A ...
Publisher: London, Lloyd?s / Macmillan, 1932 1st
Seller: Centralantikvariatet, Stockholm, Sweden
Condition: Very Good. London, printed at Lloyds and published by Macmillan & Co, 1932. Large 8vo. (8),+ vii,+ (7),+ 525 pp.+ 21 plates. Publ. blue cloth with gilt spine and front board with gilt emblem. Inscribed on front paste down by Eric Geijer 1932 and with owner?s signature of Lave Beck-Friis. Försäkringsfirman Lloyds har sedan gammat en fin Nelsonsamling. ?In 1803, the committee of Lloyd?s merchants and underwriters founded the Lloyd?s Patriotic Fund to honour the brave and provide for the wounded and dependents of those killed in major Napoleonic battles. In the years that followed, Lloyd?s amassed a varied assortment of artefacts and memorabilia associated with Lord Nelson, including his Collar of the Order of the Bath, the logbook of HMS Euryalus, and silverware originally awarded by the Lloyd?s Patriotic Fund.? Hardcover / Hardback. Seller Inventory # 111786
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