[Archive]: Isaac Bullock's Rare Shipboard Account of the First Recorded Meteor Shower in North America (November 12, 1799); together with his 1799 Seaman’s Protection Certificate (Signed by a Revoluti

by BULLOCK, Isaac [Senior and Junior]; Benjamin Lincoln

$6,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

Salem, Massachusetts: (1799-early 1860s). Unbound. A collection of autobiographical writings retained by two prominent seamen (father and son) from Salem, Massachusetts. The archive was compiled by the son Isaac Bullock (1800-70): a self-taught scholar and artist who first went to sea aboard fishing vessels and later as chief mate aboard..... More

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