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Lot 531
Sale 5524 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 22, 2004
5:00AM ET
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(American 19th-Century Manuscript Ship's Log.) Schooner "Georgia" out of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1856-1870. Folio, contemp. 1/2 calf & marbled bds.; extremities rubbed, 20th-century custom cloth slipcase. Printed logbook ("Seaman's Journal," Boston: Benj. Loring) filled-in in manuscript.
83 pp. of manuscript ink entries (in two hands) recording 1856 Boston to Jacksonville & return voyage with call in Savannah; 1859 Ipswich to Cambridge, Salisbury, Salem, Philadelphia, Brooklyn & Newburyport voyage; 1870 Ipswich to Philadelphia, New York, Newark, Elizabethport & Salem voyage.