freeman 1866 (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. 1st edition. [5], 5-212 p.; 19.5 cm. Good orig. blue cloth, lower cover lightly dampstained.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 281 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Fair minus dust jacket. Spine is tan with black and red print. Dust jacket in mylar; edge wear, with portion of top edge torn away, peripheral toning, small vendor label on front mylar. Boards in grey cloth, black print; light wear to spine caps and corners, bump to front top edge, cocked spine. Text block has spine break at page 88. Illustrated: b&w plates (drawings). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407350. FP New Rockville Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Manuscripts in ink. (1) Small 8vo (126 x 100 mm), pp. 29, [1] index; 24, including two blank pages and an index, a couple of diagrams in the text but otherwise clearly written throughout in a small, neat hand in black and brown ink, with the original front wrapper, worn, dusty and dog-eared, with paper label bearing manuscript title listing the voyages, the rear label cut away and the text block attached to the next work: (2) Small 8vo (132 x 100 mm), pp. 60, [4], including four blank pages and an index, several diagrams in the text, written on black bordered paper throughout, folded and sewn in the middle, the stubs of the original wrappers present but the wrappers discarded in order to sew the text block between the two other works, followed by (3) Small 8vo (113 x 86 mm), pp. [iv], 38, closely written in a neat hand throughout, with engravings of Mdlle Ilma de Murska pasted and stitched inside the front cover and that of Madame Maria Vilda pasted and stitched (upside down) inside the rear cover, in the original linen covered wrappers, the upper wrapper lettered in ink ?Portia.L?pool. Fm Jones?, the lower wrapper stained and with small doodle. Four notebooks: A wonderful set of private journals written by Freeman Jones, a sailor from Clifton, near Bristol, who records daily life on a number of long-haul voyages in the 1860s. Jones? logs are an engaging mixture of personal observations and factual notes, recording the daily progress on board, with bearings taken, comments on wind speed and direction, notes about the weather and descriptions of the various events on board and when reaching land, or when encountering other ships. The first three logbooks have been sewn together as a composite volume, forming a gloriously tatty but well-preserved document of three very different ?paperback? notebooks. The front paper wrapper of the first notebook is preserved, with a detailed manuscript title label documenting the contents of all three volumes attached; the middle notebook is written on black bordered, or mourning paper, folded in half and sewn; and the final notebook in the group preserves the linen covered paper wrappers in their entirety, with pastedown engravings of grand European ladies. The separate volume, presumably an off the shelf blank book, also bears a detailed list of the voyages on a paper label attached to the front cover. Each of the volumes has been painstakingly produced and preserved as a personal record, some with small diagrams and illustrations in the text, others with detailed indexing, and the final volume with a section of verse at the rear, and a list of the sovereigns of England. The voyages described in the journals, as listed on the front covers both of the composite volume and of its rather smarter continuation volume, are as follows: Ship "Alfred" from Newport to Singapore. Captn. Burgoyne. Ship "Queen of India" from Singapore to London. Captn. Thornton. Brigantine "Portia" from Bristol to St. John N.F.D. Pernambuco, Maceio & Lpool. Captn. Ship "Ardbeg" from London to Melbourne, Adelaide & Lpool. - Captn. Hobspn. Barque "Caroline Hutching's" from London to Cardiff - Captn. Cother. Schr. "Black Cat" from Cardiff to Lisbon, Faro & Bristol - Captn. Poole.

1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed by hand to 'My dear Watson'. He thanks him for his 'charming letter', adding that the 'generous encouragement of all our friends is a great help to my wife and myself in undertaking this great duty and service to the Empire'. Concluding in autograph, he writes: 'I see you are still on yr. march, so come & pay us a visit in India | Yrs. sincerely | Willingdon'.

Both items 2pp., 12mo. Both in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight evidence of previous mounting. The first letter (addressed to 'The Editor | Cambridge Daily News') begins: 'When I received my L.L.D Degree from the University (in June 1931) you published in your issue of June 6, some photographs of the procession to the Senate House on that occasion.' He is writing 'on the off chance' that 'original prints' survive, 'as I am most anxious to obtain one, for my Autobiography, if it is in any way possible to do so'. In the second letter (to 'Mr. Stuart') he thanks the editor for the trouble he has taken: 'The photograph is excellent and exactly what I wanted.' He is also 'much amused' by Stuart's 'reminiscence of the Hastings Election (1906, I assume), but shocked to learn (what I had entirely forgotten) that I could ever have spoken against my old friend Freeman Willingdon!' (Fareham was a Conservative, and Willingdon a Liberal.) He recalls that he has stayed with Willingdon 'in India & elsewhere so often since; and was his Sponsor when he took his seat as a "Viscount", in the House of Lords; some 15 years ago.' To prove that there is 'no permanent breach', he is sending a photograph taken when Willingdon 'gave away the Prizes at Cheltenham College - of which I was President'.