eventful history mutiny practical seizure (3 Ergebnisse)

23.0 x 14.0cms 262pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback with decorated boards in plain blue slipcase The chapters are: Otaheite; the bread-fruit; the mutiny; the open-boat navigation; the ''Pandora''; the court-martial; the King''s warrant; the last of the mutineers. Kennedy has drawn on more recent works to ''give a unique dimension to the story'' and selected engravings portraits and charts to illustrate the narrative.

26.0 x 17.0cms 208pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: Otaheite; the bread-fruit; the mutiny; the open-boat navigation; the ''Pandora''; the court-martial; the King''s warrant; the last of the mutineers. Kennedy has drawn on more recent works to ''give a unique dimension to the story'' and selected engravings portraits and charts to illustrate the narrative.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd edition. London: John Murray, 1839. 3rd edition, Hardcover. vi-xi, 356pp, 5¾" x 6¾". 6 etchings from original drawings by Lieut.-Colonel Batty; frontispiece: George Young & his wife Hannah Adams of Pitcairns Island; --- --- --- Half red leather over marbled boards, all paper edges and endpapers marbled. With gilded spine. The illustration pages have heavy foxing in the margins. The text pages are clean. Binding solid. What happened to the descendants of the mutineers on Pitcairn island? See my listing for the Pitcairn Miscellany.