Lot 340

Scandinavian navigation manuscript, and a ship's account book









Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Navigations Bok för Eric Pahlson...12. February 1833[?], 93 manuscript pages, with an additional title and dedication pages in black and purple ink, seemingly including various navigational theories and calculations, with two pen and ink drawings of ships, folio, modern brown quarter morocco, a few marginal repairs slightly affecting text, final pages somewhat faded, some browning; Ship's Account Book beginning in Malmö in 1844, heading to Sundsvall, Bergen, Stockholm, Christiania [Oslo], Sunderland, London, Odessa, Newcastle, New York, Dublin, Alexandria, Gibraltar, amongst other places, and finishing in Malmö in 1865, the signature of E. Pählson appears throughout, folio, contemporary half calf with soiled paper label to upper cover (2)








