Phillips mss. 4267 Leaves lined in red ink on recto and verso Text written in printed style on recto Bound in contemporary English black leather Full-gilt spine Covers decorated in gold with drawer-handle and filigree tools, extra Two silver clasps, gilt edges, marbled endpapers Spine and edges worn Published in London in 1814 of which one hundred copies were printed
Printed version listed in Knuttel, Willem Pieter Cornelis. Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek...'s Gravenhage, 1895. Vol. 2, pt. 2, 1668-1688, p. 135-136, nol 10606.
Corrections and amendments in another hand Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century. Prompted by close friends, the author's account describes a region then little known to the French. The Napoleonic Wars were underway at this time and the author speculates on the military campaign in Egypt and its ramifications for the rest of the continent. Author includes considerable ethnographic information, including speculations on the political impact of the region's geography, differences between tribes, and a physical description of the Caffres and their marriage customs, religion, and agriculture, as well as notes on the natural history encountered. Of linguistic interest is the six page vocabulary at the rear of the document
In French Sender's name determined from dealer's note Also present is statement concerning the published revocation, Nov. 1685. Autograph document 1 p. 21 cm. Removed from Edit du roy portant revocations de celuy de Nantes... Vennes: chez Moricet la Veuve Vatar, 1685 (Lilly BR845 .A4 1685).
Title in hand of Sir Henry Coverntry according to dealer. "Sr John Lawson in ye Fairfax Journall part off the Dutch warr" in Lawson's hand on the cover page. Written in a scribal hand with three additions and revisions in Lawson's hand on pages 77, 78, 93. Folio is paginated in pencil, 69-107. Reported as disbound from Philipps ms 4895.
Hagnaby was located at 53.17N latitude, 0.10E longitude according to The Times World Gazeteer Index, p. 321 (G103 .T58). On verso are pencilled notes of the genealogy of the Wentworth family Accompanied by several miscellaneous genealogical notes Removed from Dugdale, The baronage of England... London, Printed by T. Newcomb, 1675-1676 (Lilly CS421 .A2 D8).