172.
A MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE EAST INDIAMAN LADY BURGESS ON THE 20TH APRIL 1806
written in a neat hand extracted from an account given to the ‘Adriatic Mirror’ for Wednesday Sept. 24th 1806, and comprising twenty-seven pages, bound between marbled boards with titled cover -- 7 x 4¾in. (17.8 x 12cm.); together with a copy of the pamphlet The Melancholy Disaster of His Majesty’s Ship ‘The Guardian’ Bound to Botany Bay with Stores and Convicts, printed by Thomas Tegg, London, 1809, pull-out print of wreck, bound between later card cover -- 7¾ x 4¾in. (19.8 x 12cm.); and an album of service certificates for H.B. Bradshaw from 1882-1898 containing thirty-one certificates, bound between soft covers, owner’s inscription to front -- 7½ x 9in. (19 x 22.8cm.)
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Built by Perry, Wells & Green at Blackwall for John Princep in 1799, the Lady Burgess was a full rigged ship of 868 tons. After several years trading between the Coromandel Coast, Bengal and St. Helena, she was wrecked on Leyton’s Rock (southwest of the island of Bonavita, Cape Verde Islands) on 20th April, 1806, with the loss of thirty-four lives.
170.
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY MARINE PHOTOGRAPH/ CUTTINGS ALBUMS
three associated albums comprising over 200 photographs of assorted sizes and dates, many annotated, and include newspaper cuttings and prints, one album with mostly transitional late 19th Century warships; one mercantile with many views of deck scenes, complete with index; the third of mixed naval and merchant content with many cuttings and sections on the Royal racing yacht Britannia; and model ships (approx sixty images), mixed bindings
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£300-500 171.
A POCKET JOURNAL KEPT BY CAPTAIN J. BRADSHAW, R.N. EARLY 19TH-CENTURY
written in a neat hand over approximately 110 pages containing shooting accounts, short stories, songs, poems, recipes, supply lists, and excerpts copied by hand from newspapers: Forget me not, though savage war / Has torn me from thy bosom / Though called from thee, to claims afar / Beyond the Western Ocean / My soul shall smile at human fears / or ills that may beset me / Which the fond hope my bosom cheered / That you will ne’er forget me … bound between green marbled hard covers, inscribed on front ‘Scrap Book’ -- 6¾ x 4¼in. (17 x 10.8cm.); together with a ‘Genealogical and Heraldic Treatise’ recording the Rundle family history by J.S. Rundle and sent to his brother Cubitt, approximately 110 pages containing newspaper cuttings, family trees with watercolour crests, prints of family members, and excerpts of family biographies; mostly pertaining to the Rundle family of Derby, several loose inserts including a covering letter inscribed To be burned when read contained within hard marbled boards with a leather spine and remnant clasp -- 9¼ x 7½in. (23.5 x 19cm.)
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A naval family extending back several generations, the author’s principal claim to fame being my service in Aden - in planting the first British flag , the recipient, his brother Cubitt, is merely described as setting up his tent in a distant land.
£200-300 additional images online at
www.charlesmillerltd.com 173: (detail: SY ‘Midnight Sun’ Passengers) 61
£300-400 173.
AN INTERESTING ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA FROM THE CRUISE OF THE S.Y. MIDNIGHT SUN 1897/8
including approximately fifty 9 x 11in. sepia tourist views from Palermo, Malta, Crete, Athens, Alexandria and others, supplemented with about sixty privately photographed views aboard and with fellow passengers ashore, secured to annotated card pages, frontispiece with owner’s name inscribed Florence A Johnson/ Elmsleigh/Redditch, some pressed flora with annotation; and associated loose ephemera including passengers’ lists, concert parties, dance cards, invitations and menus, contained in album with decorated cover -- 12½ x 10¼in. (32 x 26cm.); together with a bible, full calf binding impressed Beacon / Steam Vessel
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This cruise may have been chartered by Sir Arthur Arnold (1833-1902), a progressive Liberal Politian who, with his wife favoured several causes including the dis-establishment of the Church of England, Women’s Suffrage, the Nationalisation of the Railways, the Temperance Movement and several others.
£200-300
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