LOG BOOKS – H.M.S. SLOOP SWIFT, H.M.S. CHAMPION & H.M.S. DAPHNE
OCEANIA AND SOUTH AMERICA. OCKHAM, VISCOUNT
£1,100
Auction: 28 October 2015 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Manuscript log book of the H.M.S. Sloop Swift from July 1849 to February 1850, heading from Plymouth to Port Nicholson (New Zealand) and Wellington to Valparaiso (Chile) and back between Chile and New Zealand; together with [Idem] Manuscript log book of the H.M.S. Champion from February 1850 to June 1850, heading from Valparaiso to Guayaquil (Ecuador) and back; together with [Idem] Manuscript log book of H.M.S. Daphne, housed in Valparaiso Bay in June [1850] and heading to [El] Callao (Peru), Panama and returning to to Valparaiso in June 1851; together a total of 238 manuscript pages, including title-page bound in modern suede, occasional small holes and stains affecting text
Footnote
This lot is sold not subject to return.
Provenance: Torridon House, Home of The Earls of Lovelace. Click here for further information: http://bit.ly/1MmigxQ