Sketch-book

Sketch-book containing original pencil-drawings of scenery, etc., made during the Arctic Expedition of H.M.S. North Star, 1852, 1853. Author's holograph MS. The sketches are dated between 27 April, 1852 and 1 August, 1853.

64 ll. obl.4to. 21 x 481/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Presented 1907.

Some of these appeared in reduced form in the author's `Narrative of a Boat Expedition up the Wellington Channel in the year 1852', published in 1854.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).