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NAVAL A Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, London, [no publisher], 1790 image 1
NAVAL A Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, London, [no publisher], 1790 image 2
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A Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, London, [no publisher], 1790

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London, Knightsbridge

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A Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, title and 30pp., hand-coloured engraved plate depicting 35 maps tipped inside upper cover, loosely inserted eighteenth/early nineteenth century manuscript sheet of expenditures (slates, lamp oil, seeds, et.), contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, printed label ("Signals for East-India Ships") on upper cover with ink annotation "To be sent to the Secretary", some loss to extremities of spine, 4to (270 x 200mm.), London, [no publisher], 1790

Footnotes

RARE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SIGNAL BOOK for use by the "East-India Ships", and annotated "to be sent to the Secretary", most probably of the Admiralty.

Saleroom notices

Should read plate "depicting 35 FLAGS" and NOT "depicting 35 maps".

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