Schooner to keep up a communication with Sir Robert Adair. In the event of receiving from either of the above Ambassadors information of the Dutch the Squadron under your command to detain and send into port all vessels navigating under the Dutch flag wherever met with and by keeping up a strict blockade of the Texel the Maes and the Scheldt seize all vessels belonging to Holland whether attempting to enter or come out until you shall be called on by one of the above mentioned Ambassadors to act...” In very good condition, the sheets held together by green thread. Light fold marks, and docket title on the final page. 320mm x 200mm. 1831. £220.00 + VAT
An important manifesto of European popular romanticism 47. PELLICO, Silvio. My Imprisonment or Memoirs of & by Silvio Pellico of Saluzzo. Published at Paris, 1833. (Together with...) A Treatise on the Duty of Man, 1834. A very early English unpublished manuscript translation of these two works, which were first published in Italian in 1832, and 1834. 406 numbered pages with preliminary manuscript title and half-title, a mounted portrait of Pellico, and a small topographical engraving of the prison at Spielberg. Bound in full contemporary dark plum straight grain morocco, with blind stamped and gilt ruled borders, and similarly decorated spine, black gilt label, all-edges-gilt. 4to. 1833-1834. £1,600.00