Leather back cover and quarter of front cover missing Attributed to Joseph Flowerden, published by J. Nourse, London, 1769 Medical work concludes: Finis April 15, 1780 Further medical directions include: Howards Receipt for Curing the Lame Distemper, Yaws, or almost any Corrupt Blood and To Cure a Cancer Dates inscribed in volume are: January 30, 1793 (weather record); 1798 (farm record); 1829 (pencilled note), Alexander Bourbon Kentucky? At end of volume, written dos-a-dos, are 18 pages of songs (2 leaves detached) copied by Alexander Barnett, chiefly while at Camp Hicks Creek in South Carolina, Dec. 28, 1780-Jan. 12, 1781 Names of John Brown, Congressman, and James Barnett, Capt. Jno. Barnett, John Dykes, Solomon Levi, and John Taliaferro also appear
"Principally written during a tour in North America" Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only) Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3) Blank leaves: 37 Watermark: J Green Son 1825
Bound in vellum boards Records details of transactions including price paid in country of origin, freightage, insurance, lighterage, commission, warehouse rent, brokerage, sales in country of destination Profit figure in red ink Goods include: cotton, coffee, oranges, goat skins, gold, cork, almonds, copper, calicoes, sugar, shank bones, baskets, butter Places of origin and destination: Rouen, Lisbon, London, Antwerp, St. Petersburg, Bahia, Rio, Trieste, Hamburg, Pernambuco Remainder of volume used as scrapbook for clippings, some dated between 1866-1875 Bookplate of Sutton Sharpe, Hampstead