Sales catalogue 508: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/66
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 508: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1831 A.D. [463] (GLASCOCK, William). Naval Sketch-Book; or, the Service Afloat and Ashore; with Characteristic Reminiscences, Fragments, and Opinions. With 12 plates. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf. London, 1831. eae (cry A very celebrated collection of Naval anecdotes, etc. 1832 A.D. [464] SCHOMBERG (A. W.; Rear-Admiral). Practical Remarks and Observations, on Building, Rigging, Arming, and Equipping His Majesty’s Ships of War, etc., etc. 8v0, half morocco. London, 1832. {5-59. 1836 A.D. [465] SIMONS (Wm.). An Account of the Collision between the Steamer Antelope, and the brigantine Elizabeth, on the night of January 18, 1836; together with a Narrative of the raising of the Elizabeth; with sugges- tigns on Steam Navigation. With folding plate three feet in length of the sinking and salvage of the “‘ Elizabeth.” ~ ; | a 5vo, half morocco, t. e. g. Greenock,. 1836. uf TAGs. 1836 A.D. [466], BLACKBURN (lsaac; Ship-builder). The Theory and Science of Naval Architecture . . . together with observations and practical con- clusions, tending to the further improvement of Ship-building, and to the Constructing of Ships for fast failing. 8v0, half morocco. Plymouth, 1836. SS. 1837 A.D. [467] O’REILLY (Admiral Montagu F.). H.M. Brig Pelorus, 16 guns, telegraphing H.M.S. Princess Charlotte, 104 guns. i Very finely executed water-colour drawing. Size 13 by 8%4 inches. With wT) wi) a lined mount. Signed and dated. 1837. : aa « (Sez Intusrration, Plate No. XX). on) Ds, 58: Rear-Admiral Montagu Frederic O’Reilly was born in 1822. He entered the Royal Naval College in 1835 and embarked, in Feb. 1837, as a volunteer on board H.M.S. ‘‘ Pelorus ’’ 16, Capt. Fras. Harding, in which vessel he was wrecked at Port Essington, Australia, on 25 Nov. 1839. In 1841 he joined the ‘‘ Druid ’’ 44 and took part in the operations in China, assisting at the capture of Amoy and Golongsoo. He passed his examination in 1842 and was appointed Mate of the ‘‘ Excellency ’’ gunnery-ship at Portsmouth. He next served in the ‘‘ Albion ’’ 90 off Lisbon, and then in the ‘‘ Actaeon ’’ 26 on the African Coast in 1845. ‘The following year he was appointed Lieutenant of the ‘‘ Lily ’’ for the suppression of
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