$5,629
Group of Maritime-related Ephemera, 18th-19th century, highlights include a log book of crew and duty assignments and routines attached to the U. S.S. Guerriere leaving New York, December 17, 1871, to join the European squadron; the ship J.L. Hale journal from Newburyport towards New Orleans, beginning October 20, 1857 and other destinations, ending March 28, 18--; "A journal of a voyage On board Ship Ann Maria , commenced June 21st, 1850...Kept by Edward Graves"; a booklet with poetry, remarks of the voyage, belonging to Benjamin S. Olney, "onboard ship ISIS AD 1810"; a 1795 handwritten account of a trial in St. Thomas of Captain Benjamin DeWolfe of the ship Polly in which he is accused of throwing a slave overboard and being inhuman; several letters of correspondence, ship rosters, manifests of cargo, etc. also including: an 1829 anti-slavery booklet titled "Life and Adventures of Robert the Hermit of Massachusetts; 1816 sailor's citizenship paper; a humerous ficticious "copy of the log book of the "Noble Eunice Ann" Providence, July 18, 1842," with an entry noting that during this expedition Rhode Island was under Martial Law, with later poetic inscriptions; a chart hand inscribed comparing the Gangway Lines following different courses; a large page size segment of a ship's log of Ship "South Boston" from Liverpool to Havannah 1825,c. 1775 "Ship America's Book of Sea-Men Wages advanced" and combined with Ship Samuel's wages; a letter with an Order for c Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
