A LATE 19TH CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGBOOKS FROM H.M.S. NILE, ETC.

kept by Fabian Chapman between 25 September 1894 - 31 January 1897, 189ff., 31 watercolour drawings, 25 of a technical nature, all but seven coloured, 17 partly coloured maps and plans, original half roan, rubbed, folio -- 12½ x 8in. (31.5 x 20cm.); during this period the Nile sailed exclusively in the Mediterranean or British waters; the descriptions of the ship's activities are standard for a vessel of this period; together with another kept between 1 February -15 July 1898 onboard H.M.Ships Nile, Lark, Cruiser, Trafalgar and Volage, 85ff., 19 drawings, seven of a technical nature, all but one coloured, 16 partly coloured maps, original reverse half calf, rubbed, folio -- 12½ x 8in. (32 x 20cm.); the first half of the journal takes part in the Mediterranean, mostly in Greece, where Chapman gives us snippets of news about the Greco-Turkish war in Crete between February and May. After a voyage to Spithead the Volage sailed to Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts returning to home waters via Bermuda; together with an odd volume and his service-pattern telescope

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