Some Titles referring to Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
See also: our fiction page for Hornblower, Ramage, Aubrey Maturin, etc, as the following list only contains non-fiction titles. Note also that books that have references to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, and the Napoleonic Wars – sometimes quite extensive – but are not solely dedicated to this subject matter, are not mentioned in this list (examples include our complete forty volume set of "The Naval Chronicles", 1799-1819, and Campbell's "Lives of the British Admirals" of which we have the first four volume edition, updated to 1779 and also the later eight volume edition, updated to 1817 thus covering the Nelsonian period – and to some extent the War of 1812.
See also: our HMS Victory and Nelson collection.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Pub. date | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life of Nelson | Allen, Joseph | George Routledge | 1852 | 1 | |
| General-at-Sea : Robert Blake and the seventeenth-century Revolution in Naval Warfare | Baumber, Michael | John Murray | 0-7195-4706-7 | 1989 | 1 |
| The Battle of Trafalgar | Bennett, Geoffrey | Naval Institute Press | 0-87021-914-6 | 1977 | 1r |
| Nelson : the Commander | Bennett, Geoffrey | Scribner's | 684-12886-1 | 1972 | 1 |
| Lost Ships, | Bound, Mensun | Simon Schuster | 0-684-85251-9 | 1998 | 1 |
| Patriotic Lady | Bowen, marjorie | David Bruce and Watson | 85127-050-6 | 1970 | 1 |
| Nelson, the Essential hero | Bradford, Ernle | Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch | 77-73114 | 1977 | 1us |
| Nelson | Bryant, Arthur | Collins | 0-00-192255-6 | 1970 | 1 2imp |
| Tears of Victory | Bryant, Arthur | Collins | 1944 | 1 | |
| Nelson in the Caribbean : The hero emerges, 1784-1787 | Callo, Joseph | Naval Institute Press | 0-55750-206-4 | 2003 | 1 |
| H.M.S. Victory | Commanding Officer | Waterlow Ltd. | 1984 | ||
| Nelson, the Man | Corbett-Smith,Arthur (Major) | Little, Brown | 1932 | 1 | |
| The Battle of Trafalgar | Davies, Paul | Pan Books | 0-330-02854-5 | 1972 | 1 |
| Nelson's Favourite : HMS Agamemnon at war 1781-1809 | Deane, Anthony | Caxton Editions | 1-84067-430-x | 1996 | 2003 |
| Nelson's Purse | Downer, Martyn | Corgi Books | 0-552-15085-1 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Napoleon's Lost Fleet | Foreman, Laura and Phillips, Ellen Blue | Roundtable Press | 1-56331-831-8 | 1999 | 1 |
| Nelson against Napoleon | Gardiner, Robert | Caxton | 1-840-67361-3 | 1997 | 1 |
| Horatia Nelson | Gerin, Winifred | Clarendon Press, Oxford | 1970 | 1 | |
| Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy | Harbron, John D. | Naval Institute Press | 0-87021-695-3 | 1988 | 1us |
| Emma, Lady Hamilton | Hardwick, Mollie | Holt Rinehart Winston | 03-081849-4 | 1970 | 1 2imp |
| The Nelson Almanac | Harris, David (ed) | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-755-4 | 1998 | 1 |
| The Age of Napoleon | Herold, J. Christopher | Harper and Row | 63-11132 | 1963 | 1 |
| Nelson, a personal history | Hibbert, Christopher | Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. | 1994 | 1 | |
| Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch | Howarth, David | Galahad Books, New York | 0-88365-272-2 | 1969 | 1 |
| Waterloo : day of battle | Howarth, David | Atheneum | 68-27663 | 1969 | 1 2imp |
| Nelson : the Immortal Memory | Howarth, David and Stephen | Conway Classics | 0-85177-720-1 | 1988 | 1 |
| Every man will do his duty | King, Dean | Henry Holt and Company | 0-8050-4806-9 | 1997 | 1 |
| Nelson : Britannia's God of War | Lambert, Andrew | Faber and Faber | 0-571-21222-0 | 2004 | 1 |
| Nelson and the Nile | Lavery, Brian | Caxton Editions / Chatham | 1-84067-5225 | 1998 | 1 |
| Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar | Lavery, Brian | Naval Institute Press | 1-59114-610-0 | 2004 | 1 |
| Trafalgar - an eyewitness account | Legg, Stuart (ed) | John Day Company | 67-14613 | 1966 | 1 |
| Nelson and Sea Power | Lloyd, Chrisotpher | English Universities Press | 0-340-12413-x | 1973 | 1 |
| Anatomy of Nelson's Ships | Longridge, C Nepean | Naval Institute Press | 0-87021-077-7 | 1961 | 1974 |
| Great battles of the British Navy | Low, Lt Charles R. | George Routledge and Sons | 1872 | 1 | |
| Fiddlers and Whores: the candid memoirs of a surgeon in Nelson's fleet | Lowry, James | Chatham Publishing | 1-88176-268-2 | 2006 | 1 |
| Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era | MacDonald, Janet | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-288-7 | 2004 | 2006 |
| Most Secret and Confidential : Intelligence In The Age Of Nelson | Maffeo, Steven E | Naval Institute Press | 1-55750-545-4 | 2000 | 1 |
| Sea Life in Nelson's Time | Masefield, John | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-313-3 | 1905 | 1984 4th |
| Naval Heritage | Mathew,David | Collins | 1944 | 1 | |
| Heart of Oak : a sailor's life in Nelson's navy | McGuane, James P | Norton | 0-393-04749-0 | 2002 | 1 |
| Broadsides: the age of fighting sail 1775-1815 | Miller, Nathan | John Wiley and Sons, | 0-471-18517-5 | 2000 | 1 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 1 1777-1794) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-048-5 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 2 1795 - 1797) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-049-3 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 3 Jan 1798 - Aug 1799) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-050-7 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 4 Sep 1799 - Dec 1801) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-051-5 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 5 jan 1802 - Apr 1804) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-052-3 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 6 May 1804 - July 1805) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-053-1 | 1844 | 1997 |
| Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson (Vol 7Aug 1805 - Oct 1805) | Nicolas, Sir NH (ed) | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-054-x | 1844 | 1997 |
| Seize The Fire: Heroism, Duty, And The Battle Of Trafalgar | Nicolson, Adam | Harper Collins | 0-06-075361-7 | 2005 | 1 |
| Men of War: Life in Nelson's Navy | O'Brian, Patrick | W.W. Norton | 0-393-03858-0 | 1995 | 1us |
| Nelson | Oman, Carola | Sphere Books | 1947 | 1968 | |
| Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower | Parkinson, C. Northcote | Barnes and Noble | 0-707-0944-0 | 1996 | 1970 |
| Horatio Nelson | Pocock, Tom | Alfred Knopp | 0 394-57056-1 | 1988, | 1st. US |
| The Terror Before Trafalgar : Nelson, Napoleon, and the Secret War | Pocock, Tom | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 0-393-05776-3 | 2002 | 2003 (first American edition) |
| The Young Nelson in the Americas | Pocock, Tom | Collins | 0-00-216562-7 | 1980 | 1 |
| Horatio Nelson | Pocock. Tom | Knopf | 0-394-57056 | 1988 | 1us |
| Nelson and his World | Pocock. Tom | Viking | 68-16445 | 1968 | 1 |
| Decision at Trafalgar | Pope, Dudley | J.B. Lippincott | 60-7848 | 1968 | 1 |
| England Expects | Pope, Dudley | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 1959 | 1 | |
| The Great Gamble, Nelson at Copenhagen | Pope, Dudley | Simon and Schuster | 671-21404-7 | 1972 | |
| Life in Nelson's Navy | Pope, Dudley | Unwin Hyman | 0-04-359008-X | 1981 | 1987 |
| Hornblower's Navy, Life at Sea in the Age Nelson | Pope, Steve | Orion | 0-75281-774-4 | 1998 | 1 |
| Nelson and the Hamiltons | Russell, Jack | Copp Clark | 1969 | ||
| Trafalgar - count down to battle 1803-1805 | Schom, Alan | Macmillin and Company Ltd. | 0-689-10255-9 | 1990 | 1US |
| The Life of Nelson | Southey, Robert | Gibbings and Co | 1813 | 1911 | |
| Hearts of Oak | Stables, Gordon MD, CM | Cahill & Co, Dublin | 1893 | early reprint | |
| The Trafalgar Companion | Stillwell, Alexander (ed) | Osprey | 1-84176-835-9 | 2005 | 1 |
| The Quarterdeck Ladder | Styles, Stonewell | William Kimber, London | 0-7183-0029-7 | 1982 | 1 |
| Nelson : a dream of Glory | Sugden, John | Jonathen Cape | 0-224-06097-x | 2004 | 1 |
| Trafalgar | Terraine, John | Mason, Charter | 0-88405-387-3 | 1975 | 1 us 1976 |
| With the Utmost possible despatch - poems of Nelson's Navy | Turner, Harry | Spellmount Ltd | 1-86227-175-5 | 2002 | 1 |
| Nelson : love and fame | Vincent, Edgar | Yale University Oress | 2003 | 1 | |
| Nelson | Walder, David | Dial Press | 0-8037-6431-6 | 1978 | 1 |
| The Nelson Portraits | Walker | Royal Naval Museum | 0-9526377-5-8 | 1998 | 1 |
| The Glorious First of June | Warner, Oliver | Macmillan | 1961 | 1 us | |
| Nelson | Warner, Oliver | Follett | 0-695-80541-x | 1975 | 1 us |
| Nelson's Battles | Warner, Oliver | B.T. Batsford Ltd | 1965 | 1 | |
| A Portrait of Lord Nelson | Warner, Oliver | Reprint Society | 1958 | 1959 | |
| Trafalgar | Warner, Oliver | Macmillan Company, New York | 1959 | 1 | |
| Hero of Trafalgar - The story of Lord Nelson | Whipple, A.B.C. | Random House | 1955 | ||
| 1797 : Nelson's year of destiny | White, Colin | Royal Naval Museum | 0-7509-2699-6 | 1998 | 2001 1st pb |
| The Nelson Encyclopedia | White, Colin | Stackpole Books | 0-8117-0013-5 | 2002 | 1us |
| Nelson : the new letters | White, Colin (ed) | Boydell | 1-843-83130-9 | 2005 | 1 |
| The Nelson Companion | White, Colin (ed) | Bramley | 1-85833-765-8 | 1995 | 1997 |
| Nelson | Wilkinson, Clennel | Longmans, Green and Co, NY | 1931 | 1 | |
| The Sea Warriors : Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson | Woodman, Richard | Carroll & Graf, Inc., New York | 0-7867-0855-7 | 2001 | 2001 |
The above represents part of our holdings on this subject - these books are all available for consultation - some of the older titles may be handled only by a Curator, or by a Member who has received approved training in the handling of archival material. Biographies, engravings, paintings, charts, etc are not listed.
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