Lot 282
Auction: Day One: 09 July 2008 | From 12:00
Description
Beatty, William
Authentic narrative of the death of Lord Nelson: with the circumstances preceding, attending, and subsequent to, that event; the professional report on his lordship’s wound; and several interesting anecdotes. London: Cadell & Davies, 1807. First edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, engraved plate of the ball that killed Nelson, paper boards, printed paper label (not original ?),edges uncut, head and tail restored, boards stained, portrait frontispiece mounted, contemporary ownership signatures on the titlepage and in the margins of the frontispiece, restorations to corners of last couple of leaves.
Note: The author was surgeon to the Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar. The work was originally intended as a contribution to the life then being written by Clarke and McArthur and published separately in advance.