Royal Navy, Maritime Disaster & Salvage, HMS Royal George (1...

Hammer

£75

Royal Navy, Maritime Disaster & Salvage, HMS Royal George (1756) - Provincial Printing, Relic of the Royal George, Slight (Henry), True Stories of H.M. Ship Royal George/from 1746 to 1841, Ryde, Isle of Wight: Printed and Published by E. Hartnall, 1841, lithograph frontispiece of the disaster and 3 further plates of the salvage, 12pp, contemporary gilt-lettered morocco over salvaged timber boards, contemporaneous and later ink MS ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 48mo (9cm x 5.2cm, (1); an early Victorian oak novelty deskweight, as a book, fashioned and carved from the ill-fated ship's timbers, recto and verso respectively dated 1782 and 1840, the spine with traces of gilding, 9cm x 4.6cm, dated 1840, (1), [2]