Illustrated log book of four voyages from Bristol to Dominica and back via London in the ship Lloyd

Item author: Nicholas Pocock

Item date: 1771 - 72

Grant Value: 900

Item cost: 7,345

Item date acquired: 1982

Item institution: Bristol Record Office

Town/City: Bristol

County: Avon

Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line. Also 146 monochrome drawings within the text showing the ship on successive days of the voyage, showing how it adapted to changing sailing conditions from calm to a gale

Item Provenance

Bookplate of Richard Champion; Christies March 1982, Lot 33