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A WATERCOLOR AND INK ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG, dated August - 12 September 1785,entitled "Remarks & Occurrances on board H.M. Hebe, the Honble. John Leveson Gower Commanding., unsigned Book Ye. IInd." 21 pages, 113 x 93 mm., neatly sewn in vellum-backed paper wrappers, upper cover labeled in ink "Hebe 1785." Written in ink in a tiny hand, illustrated with four full-page and one large folding watercolor drawings of coastal scenes, and castles from the sea, the foldout measuring 112 x 360 mm. showing a flotilla of eight fully-rigged sailing vessels, pages lightly browned at gutter margins, folding watercolor torn vertically into two sections (without signifigant loss), wrappers soiled and rubbed.

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A WATERCOLOR AND INK ILLUSTRATED SHIP'S LOG, dated August - 12 September 1785,entitled "Remarks & Occurrances on board H.M. Hebe, the Honble. John Leveson Gower Commanding., unsigned Book Ye. IInd." 21 pages, 113 x 93 mm., neatly sewn in vellum-backed paper wrappers, upper cover labeled in ink "Hebe 1785." Written in ink in a tiny hand, illustrated with four full-page and one large folding watercolor drawings of coastal scenes, and castles from the sea, the foldout measuring 112 x 360 mm. showing a flotilla of eight fully-rigged sailing vessels, pages lightly browned at gutter margins, folding watercolor torn vertically into two sections (without signifigant loss), wrappers soiled and rubbed.

A detailed record of part of a voyage around Great Britian with prince William Henry as a passenger, under the command of Admiral Sir John Leveson Gower (1740-1792). In extremely fine handwriting the diarist records mostly mundane occurances (weather, changes of sail, shipboard activities) during the Hebe's journey

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