Log book of the Schooner Annie Amsden, from Portland [Maine] Toward Cuba

1875-1878. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original pre-printed log book, neatly rebacked and cornered in leather, retaining portions of the original marbled boards; 15.75 x 9.5 inches; approximately 100 ff. of ruled paper, about three-quarters completed in a neat script in dark brown ink, likely by a few different hands. The log has a printed title leaf, published by M. Thalmessinger & Co., of New York, with an ad for John Rich & Co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in West India Goods and Ship Chandlery, Boston. Manuscript addition reads, "Schooner Annie Amsden from Portland toward Cuba, Capt. Matheson," tho it actually records a journey from Boston to St. Thomas in 1875; and a journey from Boston to Cienfuegos, Cuba, in 1876 (some of it while in harbor); plus entries from January to August 1878, from "the west ground" to Provincetown, which note whaling and fishing activity. There are also just a few notations regarding the Briga. D. A. Small, a whaling vessel out of Provincetown, dating about 1877. Changes in handwriting and recording style (sometimes using ledger's columns and fields, other times writing across them) suggest multiple hands, likelt that of Captain Duncan Alexander Matheson (b. 1829, Nova Scotia - d. 1913, Provincetown) and his son, Captain John Annaster Matheson (Provincetown, 1856 or 1857-`1941).