Medical and topographical sketches in Portugal, Spain, France and America

Illustrated by a pen-drawn map of the entrance to the Mississippi, and a few rough pencil sketches of coast lines. The journal begins Jan. 10th, 1813, and ends March 9th, 1815.

1813-15

1 volume 88 ll. + 43 bl. ll. + 6 ll. 8vo. 18 × 11 cm. Original leather covers.

Purchased Hodgson's 31st October 1912, lot 41.

The writer saw service at the end of the Peninsular War in Portugal, Spain, France, and in the New Orleans expedition in 1815, as a junior military surgeon.

Ex-collection of the late Charles Letts of Bartlett's Building, Holborn.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).