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Verlag: Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1969
Anbieter: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australien
Hard Cover. Zustand: F. 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.
Verlag: Lords Commissioners of the Admirality, Dublin, 1792
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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.
Verlag: Printed for George Nicol, London, 1792
Anbieter: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australien
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792. Quarto, [x], 264 pages plus a stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 plates (2 folding) and 4 charts (3 folding). Early tree calf, later rebacked, retaining the gilt-tooled backstrip; edges sprinkled red; covers lightly scuffed and slightly worn at the corners; frontispiece somewhat soiled and spotted, and later mounted on archival paper; plates, charts and adjacent leaves generally offset and foxed, with several a little creased and weakening about the folds; scattered light foxing; overall, a very good copy. The revised, official account of the voyage of the 'Bounty', including the mutiny and Bligh's subsequent voyage in the ship's launch with eighteen loyal crewmen. 'In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half thousand miles from Tofoa to Timor in six weeks over largely uncharted waters. What is not so well known is that in the course of 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 . [An] interesting addition to any library of Australian books, not only for the direct Australian interest of Bligh's coastal discoveries while navigating in the open boat, but also because of Bligh's later dramatic association with New South Wales as governor' (Wantrup). Bligh had first published his account two years previously, in 'A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship "Bounty"' (London, George Nicol, 1790). 'Since Bligh had left on his second voyage to the South Seas in the "Providence" at the end of 1791, the official account was edited, at Bligh's request, by the historian James Burney under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks' (Wantrup) Ferguson 125; Wantrup (2023) 62a.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1792
Anbieter: Bruce Marshall Rare Books, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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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.