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METHVEN, ROBERT
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Description
THE LOG OF A MERCHANT OFFICER; VIEWED WITH REFERENCE TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG OFFICERS AND THE YOUTH OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE. London, John Weale, 1854.
Large quarto, with two tinted lithographed plates, three chromolithographed plates after Oswald Brierly, 24 pp. lithographed reproduction of a 'Log-Journal' (most tinted, some coloured), and a folding relief map, other woodcuts in text; an excellent copy in the original blue cloth.
FIRST EDITION. Rare: a highly interesting and elaborately-produced guide to the production of ships' journals.
In addition to other articles of interest, there is one by the famous marine artist, Oswald W. Brierly, entitled 'Hints upon Coast Sketching' which is illustrated by an attractive chromolithographed view of 'Redstar Cliff, New Guinea' from the voyage of the Rattlesnake, showing the tender Bramble at anchor. Other Brierly illustrations include a striking chromolithograph of the Rattlesnake entering Torres Strait with a view of a manned canoe of the Prince of Wales Islands in the foreground, and a double chromolithographed plate showing two views of sunsets in Australasia and East Asian Seas. Brierly had sailed on the Rattlesnake voyage as Owen Stanley's guest but, because he immediately joined Keppel's cruise in H.M.S. Maeander across the Pacific, his illustrations appear not to have been available for inclusion in the official narrative of the Rattlesnake voyage (see Lot 3). Not in Ferguson.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, London, 28 July 1994, Lot 433
Large quarto, with two tinted lithographed plates, three chromolithographed plates after Oswald Brierly, 24 pp. lithographed reproduction of a 'Log-Journal' (most tinted, some coloured), and a folding relief map, other woodcuts in text; an excellent copy in the original blue cloth.
FIRST EDITION. Rare: a highly interesting and elaborately-produced guide to the production of ships' journals.
In addition to other articles of interest, there is one by the famous marine artist, Oswald W. Brierly, entitled 'Hints upon Coast Sketching' which is illustrated by an attractive chromolithographed view of 'Redstar Cliff, New Guinea' from the voyage of the Rattlesnake, showing the tender Bramble at anchor. Other Brierly illustrations include a striking chromolithograph of the Rattlesnake entering Torres Strait with a view of a manned canoe of the Prince of Wales Islands in the foreground, and a double chromolithographed plate showing two views of sunsets in Australasia and East Asian Seas. Brierly had sailed on the Rattlesnake voyage as Owen Stanley's guest but, because he immediately joined Keppel's cruise in H.M.S. Maeander across the Pacific, his illustrations appear not to have been available for inclusion in the official narrative of the Rattlesnake voyage (see Lot 3). Not in Ferguson.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, London, 28 July 1994, Lot 433