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Download PDF of Americana E-list - Navigational Manuscripts![Item #WRCAM41401 [MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK BELONGING TO CAPTAIN ALBION D. ALEXANDER OF MAINE]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41401.jpg?v=1593711615)
[Maine and elsewhere]. 1849-1860. [25]pp. Folio. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers, lettered on cover. Light soiling to covers; minor soiling internally, but generally quite bright and clean. Very good. An account book kept by Albion D. Alexander (b.1822), a ship captain from Maine, detailing accounts for several ships over a ten-year.....
![Item #WRCAM41212 CRUISE OF BROOKLYN 1870 TO 1873 LOG [manuscript title]. American Naval Log Book](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41212.jpg?v=1677876726)
[Primarily at sea, especially in the Mediterranean]. 1870-1873. [68]pp., plus a 1½ x 3-inch contact-print and a few notes. Approximately 9500 words. Red pebbled cloth with decorative red paper boards. Boards rubbed, tears in paper. Binding loose, text block separating from boards. Text clean. Four leaves cut from back of.....
[Various places]. January 1 - November 20, 1866. 117pp. Approximately 17,500 words written in neat pencil and sepia ink. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with modern linen, new endpapers. Contemporary lithographic print of the ship La Oriental pasted on p.84, with text composed around print. A few pages dampstained.....
[N.p. ca. 1780-1783]. [3]pp. on two large bifolia, each approximately 17¾ x 11½ inches. Previously folded. Blindstamped "ARCHIVES DE CHASTELLUX" on the verso of both bifolia. Closed tear from inner margin of first bifolium, not affecting manuscript. Patches of light dampstaining. Very good. Untrimmed. A pair of illustrated period battle.....
New Haven. February 5, 1767. [2]pp. plus integral docketing leaf. Folio. Silked. Small paper loss to top of sheet, affecting a few words of text. A few minor losses at edges. Lightly soiled. Good. In a red half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. Written complaint lodged with the.....
[Newburgh, N.Y.; Cape Town, South Africa; and other locations (see below). 1832-1833]. [112]pp., 20 blank leaves, [1]pp., plus six landfall drawings (including one folding) and seventeen whale stamps. Small quarto. Original three-quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Boards scuffed and scraped, edges chipped, spine worn with two spots of worming.....
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. November 21, 1867. 5pp. manuscript (written on rectos only) on folio sheets, with the letter addressed to his mother on the fifth page, following the description of events. Approximately 1250 words total. Sheets with wear around the edges. Each sheet neatly backed with paper, repairing small.....
[Aboard the H.M.S. Tonnant, off Apalachicola, Fl. ca. December 5, 1814]. [1]p. of a folded sheet, [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Numerous cross-outs and emendations. Old folds. Near fine. A fascinating and forceful pair of draft addresses by British fleet second-in-command Rear Admiral Edward Codrington, directed chiefly to the.....
New York. May 13, 1813. [3]pp., on a folded folio sheet. Plus separate engraved portrait of Fulton. Second leaf inlaid into later paper. A few small stains and tape shadows, neat separation along lower half of vertical fold, else near fine. A truly remarkable letter from steamboat and torpedo pioneer.....
[Various American ports. ca.1861]. [106]pp. of lined paper. 12mo. Original limp calf. Minor edge wear, front cover bowed. Pencil notes and drawing of a woman in profile on front endpapers. Minor dust soiling in text, last two leaves removed. Very good. An engaging manuscript journal kept by "Joseph Furlong, Acting.....
![Item #WRCAM34134 A VIEW OF THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR FROM ALGESIRAS BAY...[manuscript caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM34134.jpg?v=1677876726)
[Gibraltar. 1830]. Pencil sketch, 4 x 10 inches. Dampstained along left edge. Moderate wear to right edge. Good. A pencil sketch of Gibraltar by a U.S. naval officer, identified only as "Mid. Chandler," done at sea four and one-half miles off the island's coast. The rock is illustrated in profile.....
[Various places. August 19, 1903 - February 14, 1905; February 21 - December 1, 1905]. Two volumes. [96]; [192]pp., approximately 45,000 words. Contemporary calf notebooks. Worn, rubbed, some soiling and contemporary ink inscriptions on front board of each volume, ink stamp on rear board of second volume. Family ink notes.....
[Various places in Europe. 1832-1834]. [295]pp. manuscript journal (the pages numbered in pencil in a later hand). Approximately 32,500 words, written in a very legible hand. A printed transcript of the text is available. Small quarto. Original three-quarter calf and paper boards. Boards and leather both heavily rubbed and scraped.....
Folkestone [England]. May 15, 1915. [12]pp. Pen and ink on letterhead of Coman's Hotel, 21 & 23 Castle Hill Avenue. 15 lines per page (approximately 750 words). Quarto. With typed transcript. Old folds, large pinhole in top center margin. Old envelope of Lewis-Clark Hotel, Lewiston, Idaho, with "Allan Beatty's letter".....
Mexico City. July 26, 1846. [48]pp. manuscript in Spanish. On stationery of the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. Folio. Stitched, as issued, with contemporary ribbon. Upper inner corner of first two leaves chipped, without loss of text. Light soiling and wear to outer leaves; moderate soiling to final leaf, small.....
"The Moorings," near Tarrytown, N.Y. February 15 and April 7, 1849. [2]; [3]pp., on folded sheets. Quarto and octavo. Old fold lines. Bottom edge of second letter with some minor paper loss, affecting a few letters of text. Very minor soiling. Very good plus. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) writes.....
[The Mediterranean]. January to May, 1827. [20]pp. Folio. Contemporary paper wrappers, stitched. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. Very good. A detailed record of consumable requirements of the U.S.S. North Carolina's four major departments during part of her time with the Mediterranean squadron. The North Carolina was laid.....
[Paris?]: February 10, 1745. [2]pp. on a folded sheet. In French. Previously folded. Two small holes along folds of blank leaf. Light foxing and tanning. Very good. An entertaining letter written in 1745 by French minister Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte de Maurepas, to scientist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau at Versailles requesting.....
[England]. August 20, 1646. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines. Some light soiling and wear. Very good. Manuscript document signed by Robert Rich, the second Earl of Warwick, who was commander of the British Navy and a promoter of the American colonies. In this memorandum, addressed to the Commissioners of His.....
Washington, D.C. February 28, 1898. [2]pp. typed letter, signed, on Navy Department, Office of the Assistant Secretary letterhead. Original mailing folds, mild wrinkling, light even toning. Very good. A rare look behind the scenes of the United States Navy Department after one of the most notorious incidents in its history.....
![Item #WRCAM48467 A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD MADE BY JOEL ROOT 1802 - 1806 [cover title]. Joel Root](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM48467.jpg?v=1677876727)
[N.p. N.d., but ca.1914]. 73pp. typescript, printed on rectos only. Small folio. Original limp blue morocco, gilt. Inscribed on front flyleaf. Light wear to extremities, slightly heavier to corners and spine ends. Internally clean. Very good. A very interesting narrative of a voyage made by Joel Root (b. 1770), a......
[Primarily at sea]. 1883. 111pp. carbon copy of a manuscript on sheets 10¼ x 8 inches, brad-bound along top edge. Approximately 20,500 words. First leaf torn along old creases, with no loss to text. Several leaves chipped along edges. Some light dampstaining along bottom edge. Last two leaves mutilated. Fair.....
Madrid: Por la viuda de Alonso Martini, 1617. [4],34,[4] leaves plus several pen and ink illustrations. Folio. Later speckled calf, maroon gilt morocco label, spine gilt. Covers with slight wear and scuffing at extremities. Faint dampstain in lower margin. Occasional contemporary manuscript notes and marks. Overall internally clean. Very good.....
[Off the coast of Japan. ca.1805]. Watercolor on paper, 6½ x 9¾ inches. Original manuscript caption attached to verso. Small chip in upper left corner, else near fine. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet. A fine watercolor view of a Japanese.....
![Item #WRCAM40471 [LETTER BOOK AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FOR THE U.S.S. TENNESSEE]. United States Navy](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM40471.jpg?v=1623264432)
[Various places, including Japan]. 1875-1885. 133 sheets mounted on stubs; twenty-eight mounted photographs, most 7 x 9¾ inches. Letter book: Folio. Original half black morocco and cloth, stamped in blind on cover, spine gilt. Corners rubbed. Spine heavily worn and chipped, hinges weak. Light soiling to some letters, some chipped.....
