8vo. 203pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp.

A selection of monthly accounts, extracted from the London Gazette, concerning the British military campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars for the year 1805. Comprising letters and dispatches of both the army and navy, these bulletins relate foreign actions, victories, defeats, and casualties. This edition includes the dispatches of Vice-Admiral Collingwood, relating the victory at Battle of Trafalgar and the 'ever-to-be-lamented death of Vice- Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson', not published in the Gazette until 6th November.