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GEORGE HAMILTON (fl.1790)
A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson for W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793. 8° (224 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, uncut. (Neat closed tear to portrait, a few spots.) 20th-century calf gilt, boards with borders of gilt triple rules, gilt board-edges, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with fleurons.
A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION ON THE BOUNTY MUTINEERS. When William Bligh returned to England in 1790 and news of the mutiny aboard Bounty finally became known, the Admiralty immediately fitted out the frigate Pandora, Capt. Edward Edwards commanding, to apprehend the mutineers. This account of that voyage is by the ship's surgeon George Hamilton, later dismissed as being a 'coarse and vulgar' narrator by Sir John Barrow in his own 1831 work on the Bounty. This is, nevertheless, the only full contemporary published account as Edwards wrote no complete account of the voyage. In Tahiti, Edwards arrested fourteen mutineers and caged them on Pandora's quarterdeck while he sailed from Tonga to New Guinea in search of the remaining mutineers. It is now believed that when passing through the Santa Cruz Group he failed to recognize a distress signal from the survivors of La Pérouse's expedition. He made a number of discoveries including Rotuma and determined the best route to Botany Bay, but he failed to locate Pitcairn Island although he had sailed close to it on his outward passage. While surveying Endeavour Strait in the Great Barrier Reef, Pandora was wrecked and captain and crew took to the ship's boats with the ten surviving mutineers who had been released from their cages, not by Captain Edwards but by the master-at-arms. After an 1,100-mile voyage in open boats through the Torres Straits they landed at Timor where Bligh himself had fetched up after being cast off from the Bounty. A ship was arranged for them by the Dutch to carry the mutineers to England where all were tried and three were hanged. Kropelien 507; Ferguson 151; Hill 766.
A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson for W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793. 8° (224 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, uncut. (Neat closed tear to portrait, a few spots.) 20th-century calf gilt, boards with borders of gilt triple rules, gilt board-edges, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with fleurons.
A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION ON THE BOUNTY MUTINEERS. When William Bligh returned to England in 1790 and news of the mutiny aboard Bounty finally became known, the Admiralty immediately fitted out the frigate Pandora, Capt. Edward Edwards commanding, to apprehend the mutineers. This account of that voyage is by the ship's surgeon George Hamilton, later dismissed as being a 'coarse and vulgar' narrator by Sir John Barrow in his own 1831 work on the Bounty. This is, nevertheless, the only full contemporary published account as Edwards wrote no complete account of the voyage. In Tahiti, Edwards arrested fourteen mutineers and caged them on Pandora's quarterdeck while he sailed from Tonga to New Guinea in search of the remaining mutineers. It is now believed that when passing through the Santa Cruz Group he failed to recognize a distress signal from the survivors of La Pérouse's expedition. He made a number of discoveries including Rotuma and determined the best route to Botany Bay, but he failed to locate Pitcairn Island although he had sailed close to it on his outward passage. While surveying Endeavour Strait in the Great Barrier Reef, Pandora was wrecked and captain and crew took to the ship's boats with the ten surviving mutineers who had been released from their cages, not by Captain Edwards but by the master-at-arms. After an 1,100-mile voyage in open boats through the Torres Straits they landed at Timor where Bligh himself had fetched up after being cast off from the Bounty. A ship was arranged for them by the Dutch to carry the mutineers to England where all were tried and three were hanged. Kropelien 507; Ferguson 151; Hill 766.
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