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Meticulous description of the new royal yacht and private fleet of the king of Portugal
Manuel Luis dos Santos (?-1870).
1) Inventário do Casco, Aparelhos e mais utensílios assim de uso como de sobrecellentes da Real escuna de Sua Magestade o Senor D. Miguel I. [...] mandou riscar, desenhar, e construir para seu Real e immediato serviço, pelo engenheiro constructor do Arsenal Real da Marinha desta capital [...].
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2) Descripção historica das figuras alegóricas mithologicas de que se compõe o baixo relevo que orna o exterior do real e naval vaso denominado Real escuna o qual Sua Magestade Fidelissima o Senhor D. Miguel I, Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves mandou riscar [...].
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3) Descripção Historica da Camara Real, Camarim Real, Ante-Camara e tudo o mais concernente ao interior do Real e naval vaso denominado Real escuna [...].
Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1832.
3 volumes in 1 (bound as 2-3-1). 4°. 10; 14; 71, [1 blank] pp. With the woodcut arms of Portugal on each… Read More

Drawn studies of Indian boats in an English manuscript notebook

Cornelius Sanjev (?).
[Manuscript notebook]
Bengal, 1834.
4°. 26 pp., 20 ll. Paper watermarked RTassell 1831.
Manuscript textin ink, with 31 drawings in various inks and pencil.
Contemporary half dark green morocco with marbled sides.
Finely illustrated manuscript notebook of a trip to Bengal, India. The author had a particular interest in the boats that he or she encountered while sailing the rivers of Bengal: the notebook counts 14 large and 4 smaller drawings of various types of indigenous boats. Most were first sketched in pencil and then traced with ink. One drawing is signed with what seems like "Cornelius Sanjev", though we could not identify this person.The manuscript starts off as a ship's log of a journey from Portsmouth, England on Tuesday, March 11, 1834. They passed the Cape of Good Hope on May 15th. The author mentions names and destination of ships they encountered along the way, such as the Minerva from Liverpool bound… Read More

Large VOC watercolour view of Porto Praia, Cape Verde
Johann Christian Friderici [= Frederici] (Heldburg 1766 - Cape Town 1804).
Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago. Geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici / Verbeelding van de inwoonders op St Iago.
Porto Praia, Cape Verde, 1783.
Watercolour with ruled black ink border on laid paper, watermarked Pro Patria with Maid of Dort. 29,5 x 120,5 cm.
The largest recorded early modern panoramic view of Cape Verde, by "the best VOC map maker in South Africa" (Koeman). This is his earliest known work.Santiago's Porto Praia is the main harbour of Cape Verde. It served as an important transportation hub of enslaved African people to the Americas and for the restocking of ships bound for the Cape with salt and fresh foods. These two functions of the island are depicted in the cartouche in the top right. It shows an African family and examples of livestock: a turkey and a goat. The man wears clothes that are also seen in depictions of plantation… Read More