A midshipman's logbook kept aboard the HMS Shah, the HMS Pelican, and the HMS Triumph

by Alaric William John Portal

$12,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

At sea, and ports-of-call, Pacific Ocean: 1878-1880. Folio, 5 parts in 1, each with a hand-colored title page, with many handcolored manuscript views, charts, elevations, plans, and diagrams either laid- or tipped-in; five separate logs in one parchment-bound volume, double blue-painted borders on covers, marbled endpapers; light foxing, a touch shaken, but overall a very good, relatively clean copy with brilliant coloring. Commander retired Alaric William John Portal, R.N. 1861-1906 served

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