Auction Catalogue

26 April 2010

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Military Books

Lot

№ 98

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26 April 2010

Hammer Price:
£35

Original warrant appointing ‘Major James Chisholm of the Royal African Corps’ to the presidency ‘of a General Court Martial, ordered to be assembled at Government House, Goree, on Monday the nineteenth day of November’, with red wax seal and signature of Lieutenant-Colonel William Maxwell, ‘Commanding Officer of a Body of His Majesty’s Forces employed on the West Coast of Africa, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Settlements of Senegal and Goree’, dated 17 November 1810, 31.5cm. by 39.5cm., in good condition, unusual and interesting