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Lot 131

[NEWSPAPER]. [NELSON, Lord Horatio (1758-1805), subject]. T...

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[NEWSPAPER]. [NELSON, Lord Horatio (1758-1805), subject]. The Times. Number 6572. London, November 7, 1805. 4to. 4 pp. one one folding sheet. Each page approximately 17 ? x 11?. Each page with one vertical and horizontal crease. Toned, edgeworn, with tears along creases, somewhat tattered. Fair. On pp. [2-3] are stories about the Battle of Trafalgar and Nelson?s death: ?... Sir - The ever-to-be-lamented death of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, who in the late conflict with the enemy fell in the hour of victory, leaves to me the duty of informing my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that on the 19th instant it was commissioned to the Commander in Chief, from the ships watching the motions of the enemy in Cadiz, that the combined fleet had put to sea??