Willyams: A voyage up the Mediterranean in his majesty s ship the Swiftsure… under the command of Horatio Nelson… with a description of the battle of the Nile. London 1802 First edition.Small FOLIO, contemporary leather over boards, text and plates clean, complete engraved dedication with arms, sepia aquatint double page map and forty (40) full page aquatint views by Stadler after Willyams, overall a very good, nice copy. Willyams was chaplain on H. M.Swiftsure in Nelson’ s squadron in the Mediterranean in 1798. He gives an illustrated eye-witness account of the great Nelson victory in the naval battle of Nile. The squadron travelled all around Eastern Mediterranean during 1798-1801 as Nelson tried to annihilate the remaining of the French fleet and cut the provisions towards the French expeditionary force in Egypt.Willyams had the opportunity to visit several Greek islands, as Rhodes and many places in the Levant. The book is very richly illustrated with 40 fine aquatints as he was a painter with talent, including views in Rhodes and fine scenes in the Levant. He provides also several precious information for Nelson. Blackmer 1813,not in Atabey. Scarce work with beautiful views