LOT 108 A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa... to Timor, FIRST EDITION, George Nicol, 1792 BLIGH (WILLIAM)
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BLIGH (WILLIAM)
A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa... to Timor, FIRST EDITION, stipple-engraved oval portrait of Bligh by J. Condé after Russell, 7 engraved plates, plans and charts (5 folding), some spotting and offsetting, dampstain to final plate and a few leaves of text, untrimmed in modern boards [Hill 135; Ferguson 125; Sabin 5910], 4to (320 x 250mm.), George Nicol, 1792
|The official account of Bligh's celebrated voyage in the Bounty, including a record of the mutiny, and subsequent remarkable journey undertaken by Bligh across the Pacific in Bounty's launch, to safety in Timor. The text is drawn largely from Bligh's journal, edited by James Burney under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks.
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