Autograph manuscript, “Remarques, nottes sic instructions, réflexions et souvenirs rélatifs aux diverses parties de l’art nautique et militaire de la marine”

by Horatio Nelson, Henri Pierre Philibert

$12,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

231 pp . 4to. Two loosely inserted leaves, engraved Neptune vignette laid down on front pastedown, engraved chart on rear pastedown, original roan backed boards. Item #257034 A detailed and comprehensive naval journal by a French naval officer during the Napoleonic era. The author Philibert, according to a note on the pastedown , a highly literate and seasoned naval officer who saw action in the waters of Europe, the Americas and Africa,

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.