£700
'SIGNALS TO BE MADE BY SHIPS OF WAR HAVING CHARGE OF CONVOYS..' CIRCA 1800
printed over a folio sheet with hand-coloured flags, further instructions for signals in fog and by night, manuscript rendezvous instructions to the merchantman Eliza from H.M. Sloop Albatross dated 1800, inscribed Eliza on outer fold; together with the manuscript convoy sailing order, including the Eliza, and hand-coloured code with a 98-panel instruction grid, each on watermarked laid paper (separated at folds, old wear) -- 20½ x 15½in. (52 x 39cm.); and a mercantile sailing timetable for 1796
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The Honourable Company of Master Mariners.
time staining; first sheet separated at centre with some foxing and area of loss along lower middle by spine; second sheet now in four separate sections.
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