Oswald W.B. Brierly - General shippping notes H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1849-1850, H.M.S. Maeander 1850-1851

A 512

series

1849-1851

Textual Records, Drawings

423761

Microfilm : CY 104 (A 512)

1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Drawings

[front cover]
Notes on reefs (reef points, reef burton, and reef taking); course settling; movement of sails and rigging to accommodate various weather and wind conditions (some explanations have diagrams); and sail making.
1849-1850, 1853; Glossary and tables of words used by Aboriginals of Evans Bay, Cape York region, Darnley Island, and Redscar Bay Coast New Guinea, collected mainly 1849. Includes Bidjarra, Chowya-Goodang, Kowra, language groups
[back cover]
London, June 25 1852. Notes on drawing and sketching including paper selected, methods, modes, and colours
1849-1852; General notes. Water colour painting, particulars of canoes &c. &c. Modes of using water colours, with diagram showing break down of colours used for various components of drawing (clouds, azure, water, hills) and process involved. Also includes sketches of canoes with sails and landscape colour chart.
H.M.S. Maeander July 24 1851 [2 loose-leaf pages inserted into volume]. Notes on prepartions for drawings including drawings composed in England.

The volume is reversible, as it has been used from the front and back.
Many pages of the volume are blank and text is written in both ink and pencil.
The volume was rebound into new covers in Sept. 1944.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.

Title taken from inscription on p.i
There is a non-contemporaneous label on original front cover with inscription, "Title General notes. H.M. Rattlesnake & Meander. Promiscuous Notes South Sea and S. America with glossaries &c. &c....". M.S. Notes only. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c. O.W. Brierly, 1849"