10th May, 2016 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Courageous')

 
  Lot 70
 

70

[M] JOURNAL OF H.M.S. WINCHESTER, MOST LIKELY BY...

JOURNAL OF H.M.S. WINCHESTER, MOST LIKELY BY THE SHIP'S SURGEON, PROBABLY PORT ROYAL, NOV. 5 1840 - JAN. 12, 1841
manuscript on paper, 8 leaves mostly written on both sides, 10 large or full-page pencilled drawings, one full-page watercolour drawing, contemporary half-roan, foot of spine defective, otherwise rubbed, 4to, -- 10¾ x 8¾in. (27.5 x 22.5cm.)

An interesting journal lasting two months in which the Winchester landed first in Santa Marta in Colombia and later in Cartagena. The writer's main preoccupation is the health (or lack thereof) of the crew and the temperature and humidity. At Riollach he meets old friends, the American Consul and the surgeon Smith, formally of the Bolivian Army. A brief mention of the flogging of the Captain's boy, a serious quarrel with Spanish sailors on the shore, a shooting expedition at San Pedro, local methods of finding gold in the Rio Irlach and the Captain offered a local girl in marriage (declined). 19th-century signature on an endpaper of Henry K. Turnbull.

Sold for £372
Estimated at £300 - £500

(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)


 
JOURNAL OF H.M.S. WINCHESTER, MOST LIKELY BY THE SHIP'S SURGEON, PROBABLY PORT ROYAL, NOV. 5 1840 - JAN. 12, 1841
manuscript on paper, 8 leaves mostly written on both sides, 10 large or full-page pencilled drawings, one full-page watercolour drawing, contemporary half-roan, foot of spine defective, otherwise rubbed, 4to, -- 10¾ x 8¾in. (27.5 x 22.5cm.)

An interesting journal lasting two months in which the Winchester landed first in Santa Marta in Colombia and later in Cartagena. The writer's main preoccupation is the health (or lack thereof) of the crew and the temperature and humidity. At Riollach he meets old friends, the American Consul and the surgeon Smith, formally of the Bolivian Army. A brief mention of the flogging of the Captain's boy, a serious quarrel with Spanish sailors on the shore, a shooting expedition at San Pedro, local methods of finding gold in the Rio Irlach and the Captain offered a local girl in marriage (declined). 19th-century signature on an endpaper of Henry K. Turnbull.
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