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83<br />

Detailed Plan Of The Battle<br />

BOTELER, John Harvey.<br />

'The HARBOUR of NAVARIN, with a Plan of the Battle on the<br />

20.th OCT.R 1827. by J.H. Boteler L.t of H.M.S. Albion.' 'W. Read<br />

sc.' 'London, Published by Henry Colburn, 13, Great<br />

Marlborough Street.'<br />

London: Henry Colburn, [ca. 1828]; copperplate engraving,<br />

border: 204 x 250 widest: 207 x 265 platemark: - x - mm, in black<br />

and white.<br />

Margins close; old folds, the right hand fold weak.<br />

The Battle of Navarino was fought between a joint<br />

Anglo-French-Russian fleet and an Ottoman-Egyptian fleet on<br />

20th October 1827. The opposing fleets are shown at the commencement of the action, with the allied ships<br />

linked to the key.<br />

This very detailed plan, evidently a book-plate, was drawn by an eye-witness to the battle. A table lists the<br />

ships, and ships' complements, of the allied fleet, while a panel of text gives a detailed analysis of the fate of<br />

the ships of the Turco-Egyptian squadron. £250<br />

84<br />

HEBERT, Laurence.<br />

'A MAP exhibiting the Retreat of the FRENCH ARMY from MOSCOW to<br />

PARIS’. ‘L. Hebert del.' 'W. Milton sc.' 'Published by R. Bowyer Pall Mall<br />

London 20 Feb 1815.';<br />

London: Robert Bowyer, 20 Feb 1815 copperplate engraving, outer<br />

border: 383 x 253 widest: 386 x 253 platemark: - x -mm, in black and white.<br />

A fine example.<br />

Small but detailed map, in three sections, of the disastrous French retreat<br />

from Moscow, drawn by Louis Hebert, a mapmaker employed in the<br />

British Army's Quarter Master General's Office. The map was engraved by<br />

Milton for 'An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of<br />

Europe ...', published by Bowyer in 1815.<br />

£200<br />

85<br />

Rare Birds-Eye View / Plan Of The Mouth Of The Dnieper<br />

PACKER, Thomas.<br />

'PANORAMIC VIEW OF KINBURN SPIT & FORT, PORT<br />

OTCHAKOFF, & FORT NICOLAIEFF. PANORAMA DE<br />

KINBURN ET DES FORTS, DE D'OCKZAKOFF, ET LE FORT<br />

NICOLAIEFF.' 'Lith.d from a Sketch by an Officer of H.M.S.<br />

Stromboli in 1855.' 'Tho.s Packer delt et lith.' 'Stannard & Dixon<br />

imp.' 'London, Printed & Pub.d Oct.r 30. 1855, by Stannard &<br />

Dixon, 7, Poland St.' 'F. SINNETT EDITEUR D'ESTAMPES<br />

PASSAGE COLBERT ROTUNDE N.o 10 PARIS.' 'N.o 23'<br />

London: Stannard & Dixon, Octr. 30 1855; lithograph,<br />

border: 455 x 685 widest: 504 x 685mm, printed in colour.<br />

Printed on thick paper, the centrefold split, two tears into the map restored, several short tears in lower<br />

border restored.<br />

The Battle of Kinburn, on October 17, 1855, was an attack by a joint Anglo-French naval force on a Russian<br />

fort guarding the mouth of the Dnieper river estuary (modern Ukraine). The battle is regarded as early<br />

evidence of the importance of ironclad ships. The French ironclads pounded the fort to destruction in four<br />

hours, and yet suffered only minor casualties in the process because their armoured hulls were able to<br />

withstand the defensive fire of the Russians. Not recorded thus on COPAC. £300<br />

65<br />

EUROPE

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