Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes, R.N., H.M.S. Beagle Coast of West Patagonia, 28 March-24 July 1...
Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes, R.N., H.M.S. Beagle Coast of West Patagonia, 28 March-24 July 1...
Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes, R.N., H.M.S. Beagle Coast of West Patagonia, 28 March-24 July 1828
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Date
28 March-24 July 1828
Call Numbers
SAFE/MLMSS 7896 (Safe 1/459)
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Contents
0.02 metres of textual material (1 vol.)
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Copyright status : In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
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Contents
Pringle Stokes was captain of HMS Beagle on its first voyage around South America.
This was Stokes' final journal. He committed suicide on the voyage and died on 12 August 1828. During this period the Beagle was charting the Strait of Magellan and the islands to the north on the Pacific coast in appalling weather conditions. Ill health and food...
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Full title
Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes, R.N., H.M.S. Beagle Coast of West Patagonia, 28 March-24 July 1828
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Notes
General note
Bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton on the inside front cover.
Printed map on endpaper of back of inside back cover.
Signature / Inscriptions
The verso of front cover contains a written inscription from Geoffrey Ingleton describing his original purchase in 1977 of the journal. It also provides a description of the condition and an explanation of its rebinding in buffalo hide in 1979 and gives a brief history of Pringle Stokes and the journal.
Object History
This journal remained in the King family until 1977 when it was purchased by Australian collector, Geoffrey Ingleton, who sold it to Lawsons auction, Sydney in 1991.
Published information
This unfinished journal is referred to in volume 1 of Phillip Parker King's, Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. London : Henry Colburn, 1839.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Maggs Bros, May 2009, Lot 230
Identifiers
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Call Numbers
SAFE/MLMSS 7896 (Safe 1/459)
Record Identifier
YK5QDDjn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QDDjn
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867183
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