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    Sigismund Bacstrom (c. 1750–1805) was a doctor, a surgeon, and a notable artist of the early Maritime Fur Trade. His drawings of the people and places...
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  • composer, violinist and violist Sigismund Bacstrom (c. 1750-1805), German doctor, surgeon and scholar of alchemy Sigismund Payne Best (1885–1978), British...
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    fishery. Sigismund Bacstrom, a naturalist who had previously sailed as a secretary to Sir Joseph Banks, was the surgeon for the expedition. Bacstrom produced...
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  • issued at Frankfurt in 1762. Sometime in the late eighteenth century Sigismund Bacstrom translated parts of the work into English. In 1891, part of the translation...
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    "Greenland", a practice still followed in 1780 and criticized by Sigismund Bacstrom at that time. The "Spitzbergen" spelling was used in English during...
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    works and texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismund Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794. This...
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    was off ship and had vast authority over every person alongside." Sigismund Bacstrom drew a picture of Cuneah's eldest daughter, Koota-Hilslinga, in 1793...
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  • 1793 portrait of Chief Cuneah by Sigismund Bacstrom...
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