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Day 2: American, Southern & European Decorative Arts

Sat, Jan 28, 2017 09:00AM EST - Mon, Jan 30, 2017 09:00AM EST
Lot 685

Massachusetts Sailing Journal, Drawing

Estimate: $300 - $500

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(American, 19th century) Journal, dated 1840, from an individual sailing on the schooner "Looray Vinal", 34 neatly handwritten pages in blue ink including the headers: notes on tides, geometrical problems, logarithms, trigonometry, navigation, plane sailing, traverse sailing (framed page), middle latt. sailing, mercators sailing, variation of compass, how to work an observation, and A Journal of a Voyage from Boston towards Madeira and A Journal from Scituate to North Carolina; one page with drawing of anchor framed,. Condition: some pages with elements cut out with some parts remaining loose, toning, tears, wear and losses; frame with abrasions. Provenance: Collection of Anne McPherson and the Late John Bivins, Jr.

Condition

some pages with elements cut out with some parts remaining loose, toning, tears, wear and losses; frame with abrasions

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