7th Dec, 2023 10:30

Winter Specialist Sale

 
Lot 491
 
Lot 491 - First Edition of A Narrative of the Loss of HMS Royal George, 1840

First Edition of A Narrative of the Loss of HMS Royal George, 1840

Scare First Edition of A Narrative of the Loss of HMS Royal George, of 109 Guns, Sunk at Spithead, August 29th 1782; with a concise account of Colonel Pasley's Operations on the wreck in 1839 & 1840, published by John Miller Jun. 1840, bound by E. & E. Emanuel, Portsmouth, with the wood from HMS Royal George. With a hand-coloured frontispiece portrait of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt.

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Scare First Edition of A Narrative of the Loss of HMS Royal George, of 109 Guns, Sunk at Spithead, August 29th 1782; with a concise account of Colonel Pasley's Operations on the wreck in 1839 & 1840, published by John Miller Jun. 1840, bound by E. & E. Emanuel, Portsmouth, with the wood from HMS Royal George. With a hand-coloured frontispiece portrait of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt.

Auction: Winter Specialist Sale, 7th Dec, 2023

Our Winter Specialist Sale of Fine Furniture, Modern Design, Paintings, Prints, Silver, Jewellery, Watches, Ceramics, Glassware, Collector Items, Wines, and Spirits.

The auction includes the principal contents of Gatcombe Court, Somerset. Highlights include a 17th-century embroidered stumpwork panel, Fortunino Matania oil on canvas – The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, and an 1880 painted wooden rocking horse attributed to F. H. Ayres.
 
We will also be offering selected furniture and paintings previously at Sutton House, Clifton. Included are works by Alfred de Breanski, Sidney Richard Percy, and Alfred Pollentine, together with fine 19th century furniture. 
 

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