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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on September 28. The sale featured a trove of unique material, much of which…

May 30, 2017 Maps & Atlases

Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century

In January of 1819, Captain William Hodgson steered the three-masted merchant ship Transit down the River Avon from Bristol, beginning a six-month voyage toward the Mediterranean. The ship’s log book he…