fowell newton (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. With colour plates, no inscription.

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hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 176 pages, colour illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 176 pages, indexed, illustrated. "I bought this book to research The First Fleet, the eleven ships that sailed from England--loaded with prisoners, marines, sailors, and a few wives---to sail for nearly nine months to Australia to establish a penal colony. These are the letters, a diary in many ways, of one of the sailors. He gives descriptions not available in the historical records, such as the luxury foods that were craved (clotted cream) and the frustration of never having shoes that lasted in the new, hot, and sandy environment. This is one of the most valuable research books I have found for use with 'Fairies Down Under,' and I'm glad I was able to get a copy. It's no longer in print, but I wouldn't sell my copy for a thousand dollars!" (web review).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Some foxing to edges. Owner's name and stamp to first page.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Some foxing to edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Lower edge of boards lightly rubbed; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First. 176, illustrated, mostly in colour. * Signed on title-page by the editor dated 1994.

Leather binding. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and Numbered edition of three hundred this copy being 87 signed by The editor Nance Ervine and Paul Brunton of the Mitchell library. Tan Leather covers with Gilt blind stamped illustration on cover. Signed by Author(s).

Leather binding. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and Numbered edition of three hundred this copy being 87 signed by The editor Nance Ervine and Paul Brunton of the Mitchell library. Tan Leather covers with Gilt blind stamped illustration on cover. Signed by Author(s).

w South Wales. Edited and with commentary by Nance Irvine. Pp. 176, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, printed endpapers, bibliography, index; impl. 8vo; dark red boards, lettered in gilt, bottom edges slightly shelf worn; dust wrapper, backstrip faded, the gilt lettering on the flaps dulled (as often); The Fairfax Library, Sydney, 1988. First trade edition. *The letters were written mainly to Fowell's family in England and date from 1786, when he became a midshipman, through the voyage to New South Wales and the early years of the settlement, to his death in Batavia in 1790.

Quarto; hardcover, with gilt upper board and spine titling and decorative endpapers; 176pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly shaken; softening to the spine extremities; a minor bump to the upper board; text block edges very lightly toned; previous owner's large ink inscription to the verso of the flyleaf; signed by the editor to the half-title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Appendix consists of extracts from the writings of four other voyagers on the First Fleet: James Scott, John Easty, Phillip King and Arthur Bowes-Smyth.

Sydney: The Fairfax Library, 1988. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (176pp.). With frontisp., num. col. plates, b/w text-illusts., maps, and printed endpapers. Copy signed 'Nance Irvine' on title-page.

Quarto, three pages and address leaf, manuscript in ink on paper, with original wax seal, two filing holes in lower margin of each leaf; stamped "Gosport", small collector's stamp with manuscript cancellation. A wonderful original letter by Newton Fowell, the eighteen-year-old midshipman on HMS Sirius whose moving and evocative letters from the First Fleet have been one of the treasures of the State Library of New South Wales since they were acquired in 1987. This candid letter to his father John Fowell of Black Hall, North Huish, Devon, is dated "Sirius, 10 May 1787" and was written aboard the flagship of the First Fleet just three days before she set sail for Botany Bay. Newton Fowell was a well-connected "young gentleman" seaman, whose family sought the sponsorship of Captain John Hunter and Evan Nepean to ensure his late inclusion in the First Fleet expedition. He joined the Sirius in February 1787 and was the last officer to do so apart from Arthur Phillip himself. In earlier letters to his father Fowell had expressed his impatience at the endless delays in departing. Yet in this letter, when their final departure was imminent, he was somewhat caught off guard: 'Capt Philip (sic) came on board yesterday and talks of sailing tomorrow, how that will be I cannot say but the Wind at Present is fair'. Fowell describes the haste with which the men were called aboard: 'we had no great notice to get ready. I have some Linen on shore which if I cannot get to day will be left behind', and bemoans the tardiness of receiving their pay: 'We have not yet been paid any Advance it will be paid today and supposed only two Months, the Men Murmur very much as most of them have 6 Months Pay due.'. By all accounts, Fowell acquitted himself honourably during the nine-month voyage to Botany Bay and was the first officer to receive a promotion after their arrival: a fellow officer on Sirius described him as 'that very Deserving Young Man. Ord[ere]d to Act as Lieut. I have Every Reason to Suppose him for the first Promotion. I think him by far the Most Deserving Young Man in the Ship'. Fowell made three further voyages as lieutenant: the rapid circumnavigation with Hunter to the Cape of Good Hope and back on the Sirius, and another to Norfolk Island on the Supply, during which the Sirius was wrecked. His final voyage was to Batavia, on a mission to purchase a replacement for the Sirius and obtain desperately-needed provisions. Having safely reached Batavia, Fowell succumbed to the notorious Batavia fever, and died aged twenty-two. On 14 March 1791 Phillip wrote to the Admiralty reporting on recent events, 'The Supply lost five men in the voyage and left six in the Hospital in Batavia. Mr Newton Fowell who I had appointed second lieutenant of the Sirius (when Lieutenant King was sent to Norfolk Island) and the gunner of the Sirius likewise died on the Voyage. Both these officers were to have been landed at Norfolk Island had the Supply made it in her passage to Batavia'. The vast majority of First Fleet manuscripts are held institutionally; this example, once in the Webster collection, is a rare exception. The thirteen letters by Fowell held by the State Library of New South Wales and published in 1988 (The Sirius Letters: The Complete Letters of Newton Fowell, 1786-1790) give detailed reports of the voyage and the arrival of the Sirius in Port Jackson, and difficulties of the first two years of settlement. They form a series which was earlier thought to be complete. . Slight tear on the edge of address panel where it was originally opened, occasional wear and splitting at folds, sealed tear.

Entire letter, 1 page, quarto, manuscript in ink on the first side of a bifolium, laid paper watermarked with Britannia and GR surmounted by crown; dated 6 August 1787 and signed N. Fowell, addressed to John Fowell Esq., Black Hall, S. Brent, Devonshire, England, with DOVER/SHIP-LRE hand-stamp on the face and rated in ms.1/7(to be paid upon receipt); the flap with circular arrival date stamp NO/20/87; complete and well preserved, some very light foxing and minor internal reinforcing at folds; the address and a few internal words slightly re-drawn, small loss at one edge from where a little roughly opened, red wax seal partially remnant. A First Fleet letter, written at sea on thevoyage to Botany Bay. The existence of this Newton Fowell letter was not known about at the time of publication of Nance Irvine's otherwise definitive censusThe Sirius letters : the complete letters of Newton Fowell, midshipman and lieutenant aboard the Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet on its voyage to New South Wales (Sydney, 1988).The letter only came to light in early 1991, when it was discovered in a bundle of maritime mail acquired from the book trade by its previous owner, U.K. postal history collector Malcolm Mynott. It is unclear at what point it had become an estray, separated from the rest of Fowell's correspondence which had been marked for preservation forposterity by his grief-stricken parents upon learning of his death at the end of 1790. The story of its identification, its history and its significance are described in Mynott's scholarly article in Philately from Australia(December, 1992) - a copy of which we include with the letter. Virtually all of the other known Newton Fowell First Fleet correspondence was acquired by the State Library of New South Wales at auction in 1987 (Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1987, lot 252). Midshipman Newton Fowell's missive to his father was written on 6 August 1787, the very day that the eleven ships ofthe First FleetunderCaptain Arthur Philliparrived at Rio de Janeiro. It is one of two surviving letters Fowell wrote to his family from Rio de Janeiro (the other is dated 3 September). 'Honoured Father, We are just now off Rio Janeiroon the Coast of Brazil South America from where a Packet is now under Weigh for Lisbon & have five Minutes time which I would not let slip to let you know I am very well & have great hopes of a Com[mis]s[ion]every Day. I am of course very happy and like the Officers very well. Capt. Philiphas hoisted a broad Pendant [pennant] so I suppose he can here do anything with the Squad[ron] he Pleases. I am in want of a few things which I did not find in the Chest the first some Coarse Cloth for Towels & some Table Cloths fit for a Wardroom Mess. Leather for shoes and Cloth for Trousers. 6th August. I am, Hond. Father Your dutiful Son N. Fowell' I shall write again the first Opportunity.' The First Fleet would sail for Cape Town almost a month later, on 4 September, and thence to New South Wales. HMS Supply was the first ship to arrive at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788; three others arrived on the following day, and the remaining ships of the squadron, HMS Sirius among them, dropped anchor on 20 January. Newton Fowell (1768-1790) was thesecond son of John Fowell and Mary, née Digby, of Black Hall manor, near South Brent, Devon. Hejoined the Royal Navy at the age of 12 in March 1781, as a midshipman on HMS Ocean. In 1786 the young man persuaded his father to use the influence he had through his connection with Lord Nepean to have him appointed to the First Fleet. He was duly transferred to HMS Sirius, which would be the flagship of the First Fleet, in February 1787. During the voyage to Australia, Phillip reported favourably on Fowell in a letter to Nepean: '. a very good young man, & improves very much.' Indeed, at the landing ceremony at Sydney Cove, Fowell would be a central participant alongside Phillip, King, Collins and Ball. Fowell was appointed acting second lieutenant in February 1788, when Philip Gidley King was sent to establish a settlement at Norfolk Island. His promotion was confirmed on 28 December 1789. In March 1790, when HMS Sirius (under the command of John Hunter) was wrecked at Norfolk Island, Second Lieutenant Fowell and First Lieutenant William Bradley gallantly volunteered to stay on board the foundering vessel, although the ship was ultimately lost. Fowell was then transferred to HMS Supply. Early in 1790, after being unable to make landfall at Norfolk Island, the Supply continued on to Batavia, where it was able to obtain fresh provisions for the fledgling penal settlement and a vessel to replace the Sirius, theWaaksaamheyd. Fowell was chosen to sail the Waaksaamheyd back to Sydney, an appointment which was to be his first - and last - command. In his final letter to his father, written from Batavia at the end of July 1790 and carried back to England by Philip Gidley King on the Dutch packet Snelheid, Fowell laments the loss of a number of precious curios and sketches in the wreck of the Sirius: 'I have sent a Plan of Botany Bay & Port Jackson / I had them all Complete to send you but they were lost in the Sirius with a very valuable collection of birds which cost me a great Deal of Trouble? (During his time at Sydney Cove, Fowell is known to have made many sketches, none of which have survived).On the return trip from Java, Fowell died of fever at sea on 25 August 1790, at the age of just 22.