Sale 6890
London
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7 - 8 April 2004
Price realised
GBP 1,554
Estimate
[CHRISTIAN, Fletcher]. Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, containing A Narrative of the Transactions on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty, before and after the Mutiny, with his subsequent Voyages and Travels in South America. London: Printed for the Proprietor and Published by H.D. Symonds, 1796. 4° (193 x 125mm). (Lacking frontispiece, the title and last leaves water-stained.) Polished calf by Riviere. A rare first edition of this fictitious account. Ferguson 239.
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