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THBRARE AND IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE WHALESHIP "GAZELLE" Third Quarter of the 19th Century 13" x 8.5".
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RARE AND IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE WHALESHIP "GAZELLE"
Third Quarter of the 19th Century
Brown hardcover journal with 360 pages full of illustrations, including 32 sperm whale stamps and more than 200 drawings of ships, harbors, landscapes, black fish, whales, porpoise, etc., with four full-page drawings and sketches for a pie crimper on the back inside cover. The first 22 pages contain entries for the bark Helen Augusta of Martha's Vineyard, for a voyage captained by Daniel F. Worth that commenced June 19, 1856. Entries for the Gazelle begin on page 23, for a voyage also captained by Daniel F. Worth that commenced August 25, 1862. The first two entries of this voyage were made by Worth, but from then on were made by Virginia L. Foster, likely the wife or sister of Thomas Foster, who was probably the first officer. Notably includes an entry for September 21, 1865, in which the captain goes ashore and returns with news of the end of the Civil War: "boat returned and brought the glorious news of peace. May it always continue to be peace with our nation". While Starbuck lists the end of the voyage as June 17, 1865, the last journal entry is dated April 19, 1866. Accompanied by 14 pages of handwritten notes from E. Norman Flayderman pertaining to this journal, a letter from Dr. Stuart M. Frank, and a copy of John Rinaldi's 2004 catalog.
13" x 8.5".
Provenance:
Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania.
E. Norman Flayderman.
John F. Rinaldi Nautical Antiques, Kennebunkport, Maine, 2004.
Current Private Massachusetts Collection.
Illustrated:
The pie crimper drawing is illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman (New Milford, Ct.: N. Flayderman & Co., Inc., 1972), p. 104.Condition
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