
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
![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](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2021-10%2F19%2F60130738-4-2.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![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](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2021-10%2F19%2F60130738-4-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
Lot 14•
NAVAL A Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, London, [no publisher], 1790
Amended
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £15,250 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot

NAVAL
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".

![ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-116-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-32-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-10%252F09%252F25680656-99-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)


![SUFFRAGETTE INSIGNIA - GROUP CAPTAIN Group Captain's ribbon, [1908]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-07%252F16%252F25680656-10-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
