bligh capt william (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Honolulu, HI, USA: Rare Books, 1967. Facsimile; cover very barely sunned/rubbed/bumped; top edge very barely soiled; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except where noted; due to the size of this item, additional shipping charges may apply. hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. Booklet, page 305 detached. Pp. 305-317. Scarce. (ar23).

Hardcover. Geoffrey Ingleton (illustrator). Tall folio (9-5/8" x 14") bound in full tan homespun linen with the covers printed in terra cotta with nautical silhouettes by Geoffrey Ingleton; 176 pages. Printed at the Griffin Press; introduction by Alan Villiers. One of 2000 copies, this one not numbered, designed by Douglas Dunstan and illustrated by Geoffrey Ingleton with 3 full-page color plates and 22 in-text line drawings. He also drew a map of the southwest Pacific for the front endpapers and a plan of the Bounty's main rigging for the rear endpapers. The frontispiece reproduces the portrait of Admiral Bligh painted by John Smart in 1797. SIGNED by the artist and by the designer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase.

"Single sheet (8 6/8 x 14 inches to the neat line). A fine engraved map showing the coast of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) from S.W. Cape to Cape Frederick Henry, and three coastal profiles by Thomas Bowen after Bligh (lower edge torn with loss encroaching on the plate mark but not the image, one or two marks). A fine view of Van Diemen's Land, showing Cook's tracks in the 'Resolution', and originally published in Cook's third voyage: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: to determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its distance from Asia; and the Practicality of a Northern Passage to Europe" first published in 1784. Thomas Bowen followed in the footsteps of his more famous father Emanuel Bowen as bookseller and cartographer. In 1767 he issued the 'Atlas Anglicannus' and a world map in 1777 showing the discoveries of Captain Cook. He fell into financial difficulties and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.".

From Coupang to Batavia, together with the Log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison's journal. No. 54 of an edition limited to 350 numbered copies. Woodcuts by Peter Barker-Mill. Folio. Original two-toned cloth. Pages unopened. A few spots, otherwise very good. 159pp. London, the Golden Cockerel Press,