HMS Blonde
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HMS Blonde
Log of HMS Blonde, a voyage from Valparaiso to Concepion and beyond in search of survivors of the wreck of HMS Challenger, in company with Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle, 13 June - 23 July 1835, with a manuscript chart showing the coasts of Chile, Bolivia and Peru, and the course taken, 17 pages, folio, modern binding.
Darwin adverts to this expedition in a letter to his sister Caroline, Lima, July 1835: 'Shortly after the Beagle got into Valparaiso, news arrived that HMS Challenger was lost at Aranco, & that Captain Seymour, a great friend of FitzRoy, & crew, were badly off amongst the Indians. The old commodore on the Blonde was very slack in his motions - in short afraid of getting on that lee-shore in the winter; so that Captain FitzRoy had to bully him & at last offered to go as Pilot. We hear that they have succeeded in saving nearly all hands'. The Challenger, a 28-gun frigate under Captain Michael Seymour, had been wrecked on 19 May.
[Together with:] Frederick HOWARD, RN. A series of four log books of voyages on the coasts of California and South America as Master's Assistant on H.M. Steam Sloop Driver, H.M. Barque Daniel Grant and H.M. Surveying Vessel Herald, Portsmouth, Valparaiso, Concepion, Lima, San Francisco, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, 20 October 1848 - 8 May 1852, with seven single-page and two double-page manuscript charts showing the coast of Oregon, California, Central America, and both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America, and two sketches of the Daniel Grant, four volumes, approximately 610 pages, folio (foxing in vols 1 & 4, dampstaining throughout in vols 2 & 3, not affecting legibility). Vol. 3 in a modern binding, the remainder in contemporary boards, vols 1 & 2 in a modern slipcase.
Provenance. G. & N. Ingleton (bookplate). (5)
Log of HMS Blonde, a voyage from Valparaiso to Concepion and beyond in search of survivors of the wreck of HMS Challenger, in company with Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle, 13 June - 23 July 1835, with a manuscript chart showing the coasts of Chile, Bolivia and Peru, and the course taken, 17 pages, folio, modern binding.
Darwin adverts to this expedition in a letter to his sister Caroline, Lima, July 1835: 'Shortly after the Beagle got into Valparaiso, news arrived that HMS Challenger was lost at Aranco, & that Captain Seymour, a great friend of FitzRoy, & crew, were badly off amongst the Indians. The old commodore on the Blonde was very slack in his motions - in short afraid of getting on that lee-shore in the winter; so that Captain FitzRoy had to bully him & at last offered to go as Pilot. We hear that they have succeeded in saving nearly all hands'. The Challenger, a 28-gun frigate under Captain Michael Seymour, had been wrecked on 19 May.
[Together with:] Frederick HOWARD, RN. A series of four log books of voyages on the coasts of California and South America as Master's Assistant on H.M. Steam Sloop Driver, H.M. Barque Daniel Grant and H.M. Surveying Vessel Herald, Portsmouth, Valparaiso, Concepion, Lima, San Francisco, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, 20 October 1848 - 8 May 1852, with seven single-page and two double-page manuscript charts showing the coast of Oregon, California, Central America, and both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America, and two sketches of the Daniel Grant, four volumes, approximately 610 pages, folio (foxing in vols 1 & 4, dampstaining throughout in vols 2 & 3, not affecting legibility). Vol. 3 in a modern binding, the remainder in contemporary boards, vols 1 & 2 in a modern slipcase.
Provenance. G. & N. Ingleton (bookplate). (5)
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