| Description | Handwritten volume titled: "Notes of Travel. Traveller's Vade Mecum. Clothes, Tools, Natural History & General Stores & Apparatus", compiled by James Collins. 508 ff, bound in brown leather bearing the inscription "J C".
The volume consists of numerous published booklets, advertisements, clippings from published travel guides, photographs, illustrations, and cartes de visite, all bound and pasted together with handwritten notes from the following sources:
R B Marcy, The Prairie Traveller: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions
W B Lord, At Home in the Wilderness
G J Wolseley, The Soldier's Pocket Book
T Baines & W B Lord, Shifts of Camp Site
C A Gordon, The Soldier's Manual of Sanitation
Beeton, Birdsnests and Bird Stuffing
Gardner, Animal Stuffing
Francis Galton, The Art of Travel
Smithsonian Institute Hints to Travellers
Admiralty Manual
Steven, Directions in Natural History
H A Leveson [writing as "The Old Shekarry"], Wrinkles: or, hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment and camp life
Other books by H A Leveson [known as "Shek", "Shekarry"].
The volume has a page labelled "Contents" which is otherwise blank, and also features annotations referring to layout and printing options. |