barque london (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 17. Booklet. Original publisher's stapled cream wraps, lettered black. ISBN: 1903488540 Very good indeed.

Zustand: Bon état. grand in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette, 242 pp. Texte en anglais. Petite déchirure en bordure de la jaquette, sinon en très bon état.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 38. Stapled wraps. Original publisher's illustrated covers. ISBN: 1903488591 About fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 32. Booklet. Original publisher's stapled illustrated wraps, lettered black. ISBN: 1903488729 About fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 38. Booklet. Original publisher's stapled white and green wraps, lettered black. ISBN: 1903488575 Fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 32. Booklet. Original publisher's illustrated white wraps, lettered black. ISBN: 1903488710 Very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 24. Stapled wraps. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered black. Poetry and prose include: Spoils, Dead on Automatic, How do we Look, Humane Measures. ISBN: 1903488516 Very good indeed.

A manuscript ship's journal kept by Edward George Morse (Bromyard 1805?-Deal post 1850?), who no doubt served, among other functions, as the ship's surgeon. Morse made his earliest dated entries in April 1831 at the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and others at Madagascar and its surrounding islands from May to August 1831. Morse provides extensive notes on the natural history, topography and people of the Seychelles, Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, and provides detailed maps of many of the islands and coastal areas, along with a few coastal profiles. The two manuscripts are written in a single album of laid paper. Morse used it 1828 to take notes when he attended the London lectures on anatomy and blood circulation by the innovative surgeon Joseph Constantine Carpue, who had pioneered facial reconstructive surgery by introducing ancient Indian techniques. He was famous for illustrating his lectures with chalk drawings, which no doubt served as the models for the anatomical illustrations in Morse's notes. A few clippings and hand-written notes have been inserted. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 2 tapes. The journal with an engraved view as frontispiece ("Island of Saint Helena", engraved by Everingham in London), 15 full-page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view ("Tomb of Napoleon") mounted on 1 page. The lecture notes with a matching pair of engravings of a scull (one signed "A. East del") on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink anatomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. Most are drawn on the album leaves, a few on separate slips mounted on the leaves. Both the lecture notes and the journal are written in brown ink with occasional additions in pencil. Pages: [191] ll. Including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. Including: [MANUSCRIPT - ANATOMICAL]. MORSE, Edward George.Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue].[London], November-December 1828.

4to (195 x 165 mm). (191) ff., including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. The journal with an engraved view as frontispiece, 15 full-page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view mounted on 1 page. The lecture notes with a matching pair of engravings of a scull on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink anatomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. - Including: [Anatomical manuscript]. Morse, Edward George. Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue]. [London], November-December 1828. Contemp, sheepskin parchment. A manuscript ship's journal kept by Edward George Morse (Bromyard 1805?-Deal post 1850?), who no doubt served, among other functions, as the ship's surgeon. Morse reflects on Arabian navigation and Arabian explorers, including the deservedly famous Ibn Battuta. "The Arabians like the Chinese are said to have employed the compass to guide them through the trackless sands of the desert or to enable them at the hours of prayer to direct their faces with precision towards the city of Mecca and tomb of the prophet. In the sixteenth century moreover when the Portuguese first visited the Indian seas they found that the Arabians are the chief navigators of those seas [.]". - Morse made his earliest dated entries in April 1831 at the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and others at Madagascar and its surrounding islands from May to August 1831. Those around Madagascar indicate he was on the barque Manchester, but from at least 11 December 1831 to his arrival back in England on 14 March 1833 he was on the barque Sarah, a 600 ton ship sailing out of London. In it he spent a year in the Seychelles 11 December 1831-15 December 1832, including Make Island, Bird Island, Praslin Island and La Digue. - In very good condition. The binding is soiled and rubbed, and the boards slightly warped, but it remains structurally sound. A fascinating and unusual ship's journal with numerous maps, kept in the unused leaves of the author's illustrated anatomical lecture notes of a few years earlier.