Bligh lieutenant william (11 Ergebnisse)

First Sutton Edition: Paperback, cream pictorial covers, black titles, 170 x 250 mm., 400g., 158 pp., with Index, illustrated, VG copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition Thus. Dustwrapper, pp.158.Illustrated. Edited by Robert Bowman. Publishers file copy with appropriate labels on inside wrapper / pastedown ( partly obscuring blurb ) and on front endpaper. Dustwrapper has a small worn split to cover top edge next to the spine corner, but otherwise clean and sound. Contents clean and tight. At least good in dustwrapper.…

Zustand: Neuf.

Hard Cover. Facsimile. 4to. original brown cloth, gilt spine label; pp. [xii], 264, with frontispiece portrait, folding plans and maps. A fine copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121.

,; Demy 4to; pp. [vi], v, 88, iv, 79, ii, 31, 11; 1 folding diagram, 2 folding charts, 1 map, publisher's boards in chipped dustwrapper, a near fine copy. . . Limited Facsimile volume containing the four items relating to the mutiny on the Bounty. Lmited to1000 numbered copies this being number 839.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. A smart limited edition copy of this collection of four facsimile works on the mutiny on HMS Bounty by William Bligh and Edward Christian, with folding plates. A limited edition copy, with this being no.161 of one-thousand copies for sale. The second volume of 'The Australiana Facsimiles' series. In the publisher's original full black morocco binding. Containing four works bound into one: 'Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny on Board H.M. Ship Bounty', 'Minutes of the Court Martial', 'Bligh's Answer to Certain Assertions', and 'Edward Christian's Short Reply'. Illustrated with a folding map and two folding charts. Collated, complete. A collection of works on the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, where disaffected crewmen seized control of theRoyal Navy merchant ship from its captain,LieutenantWilliam Bligh, and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's openlaunch. In the publisher's original full morocco binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to extremities of spine. Bookseller's sticker to front paste down. Slight marks to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition thus. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton and designed by Douglas A. Dunstan. Near fine with owner's decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown, without dustwrapper as issued and housed in a very good slipcase with some scuffing. Number 1004 of an edition of 2000 numbered and Signed by the illustrator and designer.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First thus edition. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton and designed by Douglas A. Dunstan. Fine. Housed in a very good slipcase with light fading around the opening. Number 1842 of an edition of 2000 numbered and Signed by the illustrator and designer.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition thus. 376pp, octavo, stunningly rebound in full leather, bright gilt backstrip titles, burgundy title, brown leather boards are clean and smooth, clean throughout save for dampstain to top edge of page 17 (b/w plate). The same page is also torn along bottom edge. Slight worming to page block, tightly bound, toned and foxed page edges, pencil notes to the ffep, owner's name on top of title page. An especially beautiful copy of this landmark work. Masterfully rebound by C.A Carpenter, Jr. of Shrewsbury, MA.…

First edition of Bligh's firsthand account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history [which ultimately absolved him] from any blame that might be levelled against him because of the incident" (Hill). Quarto, original boards, lacking the spine, engraved folding plan "A copy of the draft from which the Bounty's launch was built", three engraved folding charts ÂJ. Walker after W. Harrison. In good condition. Scarce in the original boards. The HMS Bounty was acquired by the Royal Navy in 1787 to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti (then rendered "Otaheite"), a Polynesian island in the south Pacific, to the British colonies in the West Indies. Command of the expedition was given to Lieutenant William Bligh, whose experiences included Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776â"80) in which he had served as sailing master, or chief navigator, on HMS Resolution. HMS Bounty left Spithead on 23 December 1787 with Bligh as captain, accompanied by a 44-man crew, two botanists, David Nelson and William Brown, and a diarist, James Morrison. Bligh reached Tahiti on 26 October 1788; after more than five months, the Bounty sailed for the West Indies laden with "more than 1,000 young breadfruit plants". On 28 April, after a few weeks at sea, Fletcher Christian, the master's mate, led sections of the crew in a mutiny and commandeered the Bounty, setting Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a 23-foot long launch. Despite being given little in terms of navigational tools, Bligh reached Coupang modern day Kupang, Timor, then a Dutch East India settlement on 14 June 1789, after a 3,500 mile long voyage. During this "hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it an extraordinary feat of seamanship" (Wantrup, Australian Rare Books 1788-1900). By the time of his return to England in August 1793, following his successful conveyance of breadfruit to the West Indies aboard Providence, professional and public opinion had turned against him. The present first edition of Bligh's account appeared two years prior to the full official version which pardoned him of any misconduct in the incident.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: George Nicol, 1792. 4to, Contemporary polished calf, spine with gilt fleurons in compartments,with 7 plates of plans and charts including a fine engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell, folding plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty s launch, a plate of bread-fruit, and 4 other plans and charts (3 folding), small signature erased from title not affecting text. RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SEA TALES IN ALL OF MARITIME LITERATURE. On their way to introduce the bread-fruit as a cash crop to the West Indies from the South Sea Island, Bread-fruit Bligh and eighteen of his crew were set adrift by Fletcher Christian, the master s mate of the Bounty, and made a journey of about 4000 miles in an open boat before landing on the East Indian island of Timor. Several of the mutineers, who had settled on Pitcairn Island, were eventually captured and three were executed in England. An extremely important book (Hill, p. 27). Interestingly enough, Bligh was subjected to two further mutinies in his career, though only the last, in New South Wales, can be blamed upon the harsh exercise of authority. Though Bligh s account of the mutiny had been published first in 1790, it was because, as the publisher explains in his Advertisment, for the need of communicating early information concerning an event which attracted the public notice: and being drawn up in a hasty manner, it required many corrections. The present work is the first appearance of the story of the entire expedition. Having acquired a high reputation as a skillful navigator, [Bligh] was appointed to the Bounty, of 250 tons, in December 1787, arriving at his destination, Otaheite, ten months afterwards. Here he remained for five or six months, during which period his crew became demoralised by the luxurious climate and their apparently unrestricted intercourse with the natives. The object of the voyage, namely to obtain plants of the bread-fruit with a view to its acclimatisation in the British West India islands, having been accomplished, Bligh set out on his voyage thither. But his irascible temper and overbearing conduct excited (under the leadership of Fletcher Christian) a mutiny on board the ship; and on 28 April 1789 he, with eighteen of his crew, were overmastered and cast adrift in an open boat, only twenty-three feet long, and deeply laden; they had a small amount of provisions allotted to them, but no chart. In this frail craft they sailed, for nearly three months, a distance of 3,618 miles, touching at some small islands, where they got only a few shellfish and some fruit; but at length, thanks to Bligh s skill, resource, and courage, they reached Timor (DNB) Sabin 5910; Hill 135; Howgego, I, B107. …