Maritime

# 18639

HAMELIN, Emmanuel, Amiral (1768-1839)

[BAUDIN EXPEDITION] Autograph testimonial signed by Hamelin, commander of Le Naturaliste, written for one of his junior officers.

Manuscript in ink on bluish laid paper, 195 x 160 mm; place and revolutionary date of ‘Paris 1er thermidor an 11’ [20 July 1803], signed ‘Capitaine de frégate Commdt. Eel. Hamelin’; wet stamp of the Collection Deséglise; some foxing. Provenance: Collection Deséglise, France (late 19th – early 20th century), housed in the original Deséglise manila folder with manuscript …

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# 16645

CUSHING, C.; EVARTS, W.M; WAITE, M.R., et al.

[CSS SHENANDOAH] Two parliamentary papers concerning the British involvement in the American Civil War

Two contemporary official documents relating to Britain’s support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and accounts of the actions of British built warships, including the Confederate raider Shenandoah and its controversial stopover in Melbourne. (1) North America. No. 12 (1872). Argument of the United States delivered to the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva, …

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# 16432

MONROE, James; SOUTHARD, Samuel L.; United States. Board of Navy Commissioners.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to Provisions & stores furnished [to] the Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, &c. &c. May 13, 1824. Read: ordered that it lie upon the table.

Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1824. “18th Congress, 1st Session [147]”. Disbound octavo, pp 9, [1 blank], with 7 folding tables; browning and scattered foxing, but complete. The Pacific Squadron was part of the United States Navy squadron stationed in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, there being no United States ports in the Pacific, the …

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# 16014

REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]

[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia

London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …

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# 15423

SILCOCK, Harriet Eleanor; [RELPH, H.B.]

[NEW ZEALAND] Letter to an early Hutt River settler, Dr. Relph, from his sister in England, 1842

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, neatly written manuscript in ink on 3 sides (cross written on the last page), headed ‘Enford, near Chippenham, July 10th 1842’, addressed to ‘My dear Brother’; signed at the foot ‘Your only affectionate and sincerely attached Sister, Harriet Eleanor Silcock’; outer side with address panel, to …

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# 13862

Parliament of Great Britain

World sea voyage journey times and seamen’s voyage rations

By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected HIs Majesty’s Customs and other Duties 23d November 1832. [Great Britain : Parliament, 1833]. Quarto, disbound from a volume of H.M. Customs General Orders for 1833, [pp 12], with ink annotations. Contains a list of foreign goods that can be shipped duty free and …

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# 14146

D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Bruni [Bruny] (1737-1793)

Document signed by Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, dated 8 May 1781

[Toulon : 8 May 1781]. Manuscript in black ink on single sheet of wove paper, 170 x 220 mm; document written by the lieutenant of the ship Castellan, signed lower left in brown ink 'Bruny Entrecasteaux' [French naval officer and explorer Bruni d'Entrecasteaux]; the document is in support of a sailor, Joseph Augustin Recours, who, whilst …

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# 12480

WILLIAMS, A.J.

From Plymouth to China via South America

Also titled: Cruise of H.M.S. “Cornwall” : Plymouth to China via South America. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1928. Octavo, original printed boards (lightly marked) with photograph of HMS Cornwall onlaid to the front, frontispiece portrait photograph of the ship’s coomander, Captain W.S. Leveson-Gower, 41 pp, illustrated with photographic plates, internally very clean and …

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# 5668

[GEORGE III]

[MARITIME] Manuscript documents relating to the prize San Cristoforo, captured by HMS Anson, 1804

The Spanish ship San Cristoforo was captured in the Mediterranean by HMS Anson, under the command of William Cracraft, on December 8 1804. She was carrying a cargo of hides and other products from Montevideo in the New World and was bound for Barcelona. The Anson was at the time acting independently of the rest …

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# 9710

MARSH, Henry (composer); ANGAS, George French, 1822 - 1886 (illustrator)

[SHEET MUSIC] The Chusan waltz

Cover: Dedicated to Captain Henry Down and the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company’s Steam Ship Chusan by Henry Marsh, Sydney. Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co. at the Sydney Pianoforte and Music Ware Rooms, 490 1/2 George Street, [c.1852]. Folio, front cover with a bichrome lithograph of the Chusan by …

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# 6464

NYBERG, Ragnar; ZACKE, Alvar

On the dragon seas : a sailor’s adventures in the Far East

/ by Ragnar Nyberg and Alvar Zacke ; translated from the Swedish by Edith M. Nielson. London : Hurst and Blackett, [1935]. First edition, third impression. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 287 pp, [16] leaves of photographic plates, a fine copy. Travel memoir of a Swedish seaman's experiences in China and the China Sea. …

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