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WILLIAM BLIGH (1754-1817)
A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny. London: George Nicol, 1792. 4° (292 x 230mm). Engraved portrait of Bligh and 7 engraved charts, plates and plans, one of these folding and 4 double-page. (Leaves G2 and G3 misbound, light ring marks to p.133, ink spots to p.189, faint occasional spotting and offsetting as usual.) Modern speckled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: early 19th-century ink marginalia to p.62 -- Thomas George Corbett (19th-century engraved armorial bookplate from Elsham Hall).
FIRST EDITION: AN UNUSUALLY CLEAN COPY OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BOUNTY'S VOYAGE 'an extremely important book' (Hill), edited by the historian James Burney, under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks. Looking at the large folding plan of the area of the ship given over to the bread-fruit plants which were collected in Tahiti it is hardly surprising that the crew mutinied after their five month sojourn on the island. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Wantrup 62a; Sabin 5910.
A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny. London: George Nicol, 1792. 4° (292 x 230mm). Engraved portrait of Bligh and 7 engraved charts, plates and plans, one of these folding and 4 double-page. (Leaves G2 and G3 misbound, light ring marks to p.133, ink spots to p.189, faint occasional spotting and offsetting as usual.) Modern speckled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: early 19th-century ink marginalia to p.62 -- Thomas George Corbett (19th-century engraved armorial bookplate from Elsham Hall).
FIRST EDITION: AN UNUSUALLY CLEAN COPY OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BOUNTY'S VOYAGE 'an extremely important book' (Hill), edited by the historian James Burney, under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks. Looking at the large folding plan of the area of the ship given over to the bread-fruit plants which were collected in Tahiti it is hardly surprising that the crew mutinied after their five month sojourn on the island. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Wantrup 62a; Sabin 5910.