A first edition of Captain James Colnett's account of his second Pacific voyage, one of the most important to the history of whaling. A midshipman on the Resolution in Cook's second voyage, as part of a crew which also included Vancouver and Bligh, Colnett went on to become a ship's captain and maritime fur trader. He undertook this second voyage, aboard the Rattler, "to open the South Pacific sperm whale fields to British commercial interests."
The scrapbook contains poetry, comedic articles and satire, cartoons, articles about women's suffrage, and news bulletins about the 1918 Influenza pandemic.
From the Willamette University Archives
The most famous Extra-Illustrated book is probably The Story of Nell Gwyn, who was a 17th century actress and a famous mistress of King Charles II of England. Extra-Illustration is the practice of adding extra illustrations, autographs, prints, etc.
The Story of Nell Gwyn: and the Sayings of Charles the Second. by
Every Man His Own Publisher’: Extra-Illustration and the Dream of the Universal Library
