[NEWSPAPER]. [NELSON, Lord Horatio (1758-1805), subject]. The Balance, and Columbian Repository. Vol. IV, no. 52. New-York, December 24, 1805. 4to. [409]-416 pp. Newspaper on laid-paper. Pages attached together at a later date, apparently disbound from a larger book. Each page approximately 11 ¼ x 9 ½”. Toned, soiled, foxed, some edgewear, a few marginal tears. Very good. This anti-Jefferson weekly newspaper has articles on pp. 414-415 relating the British victory at Trafalgar, and the death of Nelson: “The Victory, his lordship’s ship, being lashed to the Santissima Triniadad, his lordship was entirely exposed, as well to the fire of the cannon, as musquetry from the tops, from which the constant fire was kept up… About the middle of the action, his lordship’s secretary was killed at his side: and shortly after, a musket ball, fired from the tops of the Santissima Triniadad, grazed his lordship’s shoulder, and entering his left breast, passed through his lungs. The Hero instantly fell…”