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K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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NAVAL – ROYAL NAVY IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR Logbook journal kept on board HM Ship Centaur, from 29 June 1760 to 5 April 1761 and from 22 September 1762 to 6 December 1763, 2 volumes: 'THE FIRST CRUIZE OF HIS MAJESTIES SHIP THE CENTAUR IN THE WEST INDIES, OFF THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA'
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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NAVAL – ROYAL NAVY IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
Logbook journal kept on board HM Ship Centaur, from 29 June 1760 to 5 April 1761 and from 22 September 1762 to 6 December 1763, in two non-consecutive volumes in the same meticulous and unusually elegant hand throughout, the entries made at sea comprising an hourly log (one day per page), those made in port being abbreviated (on the inside cover is written: "Note in this Book all Harbour work is omitted as the Journal fully Contains that:-"), the log recording the usual information as to weather and place, with additional journal entries of orders given ("...punish'd with 12 lashes Edward Bosworth for theft, read the articles of war & the Abstract of a late act..."), enemy action, or its threat ("...Saw the chace as we suppose & clear'd ship for Action/ Hoisted 2 boats out to tow the ships head round, ½ past set steering sails// ½ past shortened sail brought too MTS [main-topsail] to mast, the highland over Isabella Bay SEBS 12 or 13 leagues, spoke the chace, she prov'd the Hero Privateer of Philadelphia on a cruize, who inform'd us the Ship we chas'd yesterday was his Majesties ship Renown, at 8 got in the boats & fill'd maintopsail...") and unusual occurrences ("...A meteor of fire of a large magnitude burst over the Ship by which Nicholas Allen, & Francis Hill were much hurt the former greatly burn'd, the latter wounded in the head, the Shock was felt below in the orlop, like Elictricty; & a Sulpherous smell..."), provisions handed out ("...PM serv'd hammocoes to the ships company, made out of the condemn'd mainsail..."), etc.; with,- towards the end of the earlier volume, an attractively-executed grisaille vignette showing the ship, with the legend: "The First cruize of his Majesties Ship the Centaur in the Wt Indies, off the Island of Hispaniola 1761", in two volumes, c.100 and 200 pages respectively, minor dust-staining, etc., but in attractive condition, original green-dyed vellum, 4to, 1760-61 and 1762-63 (2)
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'THE FIRST CRUIZE OF HIS MAJESTIES SHIP THE CENTAUR IN THE WEST INDIES, OFF THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA 1761' – an unusually attractive, and comparatively early, Royal Navy log during the Seven Years War; covering operations in home waters during the blockade of French ports of 1760-61 and French attempts to intercept British merchant shipping; as well as operations in the West Indies and Cuba following the capture of Havana. The Centaur was a French 74-gun ship captured at the Battle of Lagos in August 1759 and commissioned into the Royal Navy in April 1760 under Captain Arthur Forrest, who was to command her until November 1761.