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(TRAVEL -- NATURAL HISTORY -- MANUSCRIPT.) Reverend Francis P. Flemyng, M.A., F.R.G.S. The Islands of the North Atlantic OceanIncluding Accounts of the History, Geography, Products and Inhabitants of the Azores or Western Islands, Porto Santo, the Desertas and Madeira. Manuscript title, dedication, and 240 pages with 11 hand-drawn maps, views, and bird illustrations all individually mounted recto/verso to parchment leaves. Folio, 14x11 inches, leather-stitched 20th-century vellum portfolio with the ticket of Lisbon bookbinder Frederico d'Almeida to the inside pastedown; some buckling and occasional small paper losses not affecting text. North Atlantic Ocean and Dunbartonshire, Scotland, 1863
An incredible mid-nineteenth-century manuscript for an unpublished account of the Azores and other North Atlantic Islands.
The author, Scottish military chaplain and amateur natural historian, Rev. Francis P. Flemyng, wrote and published several narratives of the various places he was stationed during his service, including "Kaffraria and Its Inhabitants", published in 1853; "Southern Africa: A Geography and Natural History of the Country, Colonies, and Inhabitants from the Cape of Good Hope to Angola", published in 1856; and a volume quite similarly titled to our present manuscript: "Mauritius; or the Isle of France: Being An Account of the Island, its History, Geography, Products, and Inhabitants", published in 1862.
The illustrations are nicely accomplished and, in the preface, Flemyng notes these are taken from his own portfolio of sketches made when he visited the various islands in 1849, 1852, and 1855.
