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BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofua, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. London: George Nicol, 1790. 4° (296 x 230mm). Folding engraved plate and 3 maps, 2 of which folding. (Plate with short tear at plate margin but without loss, faint spotting and offsetting, the text block slightly limp from damp, but without associated staining.) Contemporary tree calf (later endpapers, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Clevland (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Ferguson I, 71; Hill 132. Sold with a defective copy of Bligh's A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies (London, 1792), lacking pp.154-245 and 3 plates.
FIRST EDITION. Ferguson I, 71; Hill 132. Sold with a defective copy of Bligh's A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies (London, 1792), lacking pp.154-245 and 3 plates.
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