Orders, Decorations and Medals

London Gazette Bulletins of Military and Naval Intelligence 1793-1816, comprising a run of 21 volumes of the rare annual publication Bulletins of The Campaign, from 1793-1816 inclusive, but lacking the 1813 and 1814 editions, printed variously by Strahan, Harrison or Clarke of London. Each volume repeats the complete Military and Naval Intelligence exactly as it appears in the London Gazette of that year with chronological reference, containing much valuable information on virtually all the actions pertaining to the later Military and Naval General Service Medal clasp issuances, and Army of India, which are dealt with in Despatches or letters from Commanders in the field, or from the surviving officers of Naval actions. In many instances these primary reference sources also include complete numerical casualty rolls with officers nominally identified, and in a number of the later naval actions, naval ratings are also nominally listed. Volumes 1793 to 1801 inclusive are uniformly bound in full leather, spines and title panels professionally replaced, original boards intact but worn in places, marbled end papers, some volumes with Military College book plates. All volumes with general index, the 1801 volume includes Bulletins up to the Treaty of Amiens, 17 March 1802 (a volume for that year was not published). Volumes 1803 to 1816 inclusive are uniformly bound in original half leather, with title panels and marbled boards, including the 1805 ‘Trafalgar Issue’; and the 1815 ‘Waterloo Issue’ this last containing lists of Honours and Rewards for the Battle of Waterloo, the contents generally bound tightly and in good condition (21) £2000-3000

A similar run extracted from the larger format London Gazettes, but of Naval actions only, for the period 1795 to 1815, was sold recently at Christies South Kensington for £10,000. The Bulletins offered here include both Military and Naval Despatches and a great wealth of additional information.