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Creator:: Bacstrom, Sigismund
Published / Created:: 1792-1800, bulk 1792-1794.
Call Number:: WA MSS S-2405 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 130
Abstract:: Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates ...
Description:: Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon...
Subject (Geographic):: Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795

Creator:: Bacstrom, Sigismund
Published / Created:: 1796
Call Number:: Mellon MS 134
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:: Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:: Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover.
Subject (Name):: Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):: Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical miscellany, chiefly concerned with Hermes, Tabula Smaragdina]