SOLD FOR £84,000

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Hezekiah Clark (1792-1868) - six ink manuscript journals of Hezekiah Clark's voyages to India and China between 1814 and 1835, four of the journals in vellum, the voyages taking in, amongst others, the Ascension Islands, St. Helena, South Africa and Prince of Wales Island, the first journal opens 'On the 26 of March 1814 I embarked on board the Hon. Compys. Ship Thomas Grenville in the capacity of Assistant Surgeon.', this first journal ending 23 June 1815 and entries are made concerning a mutiny on board The Honourable East India Company Ship Thomas Grenville, Napoleon Buonaparte's escape from Elba, and receiving news of the Battle of Waterloo, the second journal relates to the journey on board Thomas Grenville 'from China and the Eastward towards England', the third journal is titled 'A Journal ....to Penang and China during the years 1817 and 1818 by Hezekiah Clark', the fourth journal has the title 'No.4 (Fourth voyage to China) Outlines of a Voyage to Bengal and China in the Honble. East India Compys. Ship Waterloo, including occasional remarks in connection with the Residencies and Settlements between Britain and Canton, 1819 and 1820, by Hezekiah Clark...', and includes a translation of a Chinese prayer, dated 1819, loose & mentioned in ms text, the fifth journal mentions an earthquake in Patna on 27 August 1833, another of the journals (we have named the sixth) has the title 'Brief Medical Remarks connected with the Practice of Three Voyages to China & One to Bengal and China in the Honourable East India Company's Ships Thomas Grenville & Waterloo in 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819 & 1820 by Hezekiah Clark Member of the Royal College of Surgeons London', and includes loose letters from patients mentioning 'copious bloodletting' and taking mercury as a medicine (this journal about 1/3rd filled ; together with a seventh journal partly filled by Hezekiah Clark, and from the other end, partly filled by his wife Anne Clark, the latter including watercolour sketches of clouds (7). Footnote - Hezekiah Clark was senior surgeon of the Honourable East India Company Service and later the Bengal Medical Service. He and his wife Anne Clark lived at Government House in Calcutta from 1823 until the late 1840's. Provenance - by direct family descent.

Estimate £ 500 - 1,000

To be sold on Saturday 24th January 2026.