This book came from the Belknap family estate and is a true historical treasure!

There are 95 autographs, a front inscription by Katie Arnold. One covered autograph (glued paper over)

Appears to have been owned by one of his daughters

Signed by war admirals, authors, viscounts, the author himself….and too many to picture

Some notable signatures:

Viscount Kabayama (Kabayama Sukenori, 1837–1922) was a prominent samurai, naval admiral, and statesman during Japan's Meiji era

Edwin Arnold (author of this book and others)

Francis Boughter (USN Officer)

George E. Belknap (USN Rear Admiral)

With personal typed poem to Edwin’s daughter included

Adam D. Dundas (Royal Navy Officer)

BJ Cromwell (Navy Admiral)

JB Murdock (USN Rear Admiral)

James Curtis Hepburn (American physician & educator & missionary. Renowned for pioneering the Hepburn Romanization System and writing 1st modern Japanese-English dictionary)

George P. Kendrick

(Most likely the pottery artist who worked for Grueby)

Captain Kurooka (was a prominent 19th-century officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Active during the Meiji era, he commanded the warship Tsukuba)

Viscount Takeaki Enomotto (and wife signed as well)

(Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan)

Charles Howard Hinton (& wife Mary E. Hinton)

Writer of science fiction (coined term tesseract)

Li Ching Fong

(Chinese statesman during Qing Dynasty)

Reginald R Belknap

(Navy officer)

Julia Averill Belknap Mack

Mary Crawford Fraser (writer)

Spencer S. Wood (Rear Admiral USN)

Virginia Thayer Lindsley (prominent Boston area resident)