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A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY JOHN DEANE, ENTITLED '..THE MARITIME AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA FROM THEIR EARLIEST DATE TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS PRESENT YEAR, 1724..'

Auction 26.05.2004
26.05.2004
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.576 $ - 5.364 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.390 £
ca. 4.273 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1

A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY JOHN DEANE, ENTITLED '..THE MARITIME AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA FROM THEIR EARLIEST DATE TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS PRESENT YEAR, 1724..'

Auction 26.05.2004
26.05.2004
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.576 $ - 5.364 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.390 £
ca. 4.273 $
Beschreibung:

A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY JOHN DEANE, ENTITLED '..THE MARITIME AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA FROM THEIR EARLIEST DATE TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS PRESENT YEAR, 1724..', written in a very legible hand over eighty numbered and eleven unnumbered quarto-sized pages and detailing the minutæ of the entire condition of the Russian Navy, including: a full narrative description of the Csar's yards; lists of every vessel built, broken or on the stocks, their size, origin, commander's origin, builder's (occasionally), costings and salaries (in roubles); details and results of actions fought; how the navy is organised and the hierarchy of officers and their condiiton of service (rank, dismissed etc..). The last page is entitled The present State of the Russian Navy, 1725 with an updated list of vessels and a margin note reading: Several of these Ships were oberv'd last Year to be very Crazy; and unfit for Sea; and must now be in a more Declin'd Condition: but this is little Dis-advantage to the Czar, because he has twice as many as he can Mann. Besides the Czar takes infinate Delight to view his Ships in the Harbour; and have the Lists when exaggerated, app-ear abroad in the Worlds; he will never cease to increase their Number, Yearly . Bound into decorated Morocco leather boards -- 13 x 8¼in. (33 x 21cm.) See illustration

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1
Auktion:
Datum:
26.05.2004
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY JOHN DEANE, ENTITLED '..THE MARITIME AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA FROM THEIR EARLIEST DATE TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS PRESENT YEAR, 1724..', written in a very legible hand over eighty numbered and eleven unnumbered quarto-sized pages and detailing the minutæ of the entire condition of the Russian Navy, including: a full narrative description of the Csar's yards; lists of every vessel built, broken or on the stocks, their size, origin, commander's origin, builder's (occasionally), costings and salaries (in roubles); details and results of actions fought; how the navy is organised and the hierarchy of officers and their condiiton of service (rank, dismissed etc..). The last page is entitled The present State of the Russian Navy, 1725 with an updated list of vessels and a margin note reading: Several of these Ships were oberv'd last Year to be very Crazy; and unfit for Sea; and must now be in a more Declin'd Condition: but this is little Dis-advantage to the Czar, because he has twice as many as he can Mann. Besides the Czar takes infinate Delight to view his Ships in the Harbour; and have the Lists when exaggerated, app-ear abroad in the Worlds; he will never cease to increase their Number, Yearly . Bound into decorated Morocco leather boards -- 13 x 8¼in. (33 x 21cm.) See illustration

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1
Auktion:
Datum:
26.05.2004
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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