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PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES E. SIGETY COLLECTION
SHIP’S LOG. George E. Scott, sailor. Log of the ship Venice, sailing from Philadelphia to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the Philippines and Macao, the earliest entries dated December 1840, the latest June 1848. Decorated by Scott with a number of comic pen and ink drawings; a manuscript title-page with vignettes (horse-racing, a dance, marching soldiers). Approximately 66 pages, folio. Loose sheets in a cloth wrapper labeled. “George E. Scott, December 1840, Ship Venice.”
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SHIP’S LOG. George E. Scott, sailor. Log of the ship Venice, sailing from Philadelphia to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the Philippines and Macao, the earliest entries dated December 1840, the latest June 1848. Decorated by Scott with a number of comic pen and ink drawings; a manuscript title-page with vignettes (horse-racing, a dance, marching soldiers). Approximately 66 pages, folio. Loose sheets in a cloth wrapper labeled. “George E. Scott, December 1840, Ship Venice.”
A record of the China Trade. An unusual log, evidently kept by a well-travelled merchant; each page is ruled in tabular form and Scott has carefully recorded “days out” latitude, longitude, winds and miles traversed. Apparently, the Venice’s principal cargo was tea; notations include lists of tea by type; a table of tea exported to the United States from China to the U.S., 1837; approximate annual consumption of Tea; a humorous ditty (“When Eve brought woe to all mankind \ Old Adam called her wo.man...”); pen and ink drawings of types of ships (Cutter, Felucca ); a fine pencil drawing of a fully rigged three-masted vessel (signed by Edward Kennedy). After Australia, the Venice sailed for Manila Bay, Corregidor and Macao, then Bougainville to Macao. On November 21, 1841 the ship began its return voyage, sailing from Macao to New York. A few later pages record a voyage to Liverpool on a different vessel.
A record of the China Trade. An unusual log, evidently kept by a well-travelled merchant; each page is ruled in tabular form and Scott has carefully recorded “days out” latitude, longitude, winds and miles traversed. Apparently, the Venice’s principal cargo was tea; notations include lists of tea by type; a table of tea exported to the United States from China to the U.S., 1837; approximate annual consumption of Tea; a humorous ditty (“When Eve brought woe to all mankind \ Old Adam called her wo.man...”); pen and ink drawings of types of ships (Cutter, Felucca ); a fine pencil drawing of a fully rigged three-masted vessel (signed by Edward Kennedy). After Australia, the Venice sailed for Manila Bay, Corregidor and Macao, then Bougainville to Macao. On November 21, 1841 the ship began its return voyage, sailing from Macao to New York. A few later pages record a voyage to Liverpool on a different vessel.