A general signal book : compendium in an unidentified hand, 1809.

Record ID: 
105795
Accession number: 
MA 2458
Date: 
1809.
Credit: 
Gift of Karl Vogel, 1965.
Description: 
1 item (111 leaves), bound : ill. ; 17 cm
Notes: 

Signals "by Sir R.J. Strachan off Flushing," leaf 18.
Thumb-indexed.
Title page with watercolor memorial to [Horatio] Nelson; also with ten full-page watercolors of nautical scenes, signal flags, and night signals and many small watercolors of flags and pendants.

Summary: 

Signals used by the British fleet.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (19.5 cm)
Binding: 
Dark green leather, lettered "Signals" on upper cover.
Provenance: 
Karl Vogel.