Naval Logs--Battle of Trafalgar. "A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF HM SHIP ATALANTE [AND HMS TEMERAIRE] ... COMMENCING JULY 28TH 1802 AND ENDING [JANUARY 9TH 1806] KEPT BY JAMES EATON MID." including a first-hand account of Trafalgar from the signal midshipman on the "fighting Temeraire": the first man to receive the most famous signal in naval history, 5 volumes, the first two on board the brig sloop Atalante under Commander J.O. Masefield, 28 July 1802-10 March 1804, the final three on board the second-rate ship of the line HMS Temeraire under Captain Eliab Harvey, 10 March 1804 to 9 January 1806, with the usual daily entries of a ship's log (winds, course, position, bearing) on versos and daily "Remarks" on the opposite recto sometimes expanded well beyond the usual comments, most notably in its account of Trafalgar, 64, 52, 72, 66, and 45 pages, plus title pages and blanks, folio, limp marbled paper wrappers, the final volume lacking title page
Naval Logs--Battle of Trafalgar. "A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF HM SHIP ATALANTE [AND HMS TEMERAIRE] ... COMMENCING JULY 28TH 1802 AND ENDING [JANUARY 9TH 1806] KEPT BY JAMES EATON MID." including a first-hand account of Trafalgar from the signal midshipman on the "fighting Temeraire": the first man to receive the most famous signal in naval history, 5 volumes, the first two on board the brig sloop Atalante under Commander J.O. Masefield, 28 July 1802-10 March 1804, the final three on board the second-rate ship of the line HMS Temeraire under Captain Eliab Harvey, 10 March 1804 to 9 January 1806, with the usual daily entries of a ship's log (winds, course, position, bearing) on versos and daily "Remarks" on the opposite recto sometimes expanded well beyond the usual comments, most notably in its account of Trafalgar, 64, 52, 72, 66, and 45 pages, plus title pages and blanks, folio, limp marbled paper wrappers, the final volume lacking title page
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