[ELIZABETH BLIGH’S COPY]. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship the Bounty, comma

by Lieutenant William Bligh.

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Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. The whole illustrated with charts, c. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London : Printed for George Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1792. Quarto (300 x 240 mm), period-style binding of burgundy morocco by Sangorski Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with elaborate gilt-tooled decoration, contrasting title-labels lettered in gilt; new marbled endpapers; frontispiece oval portrait of Bligh, engraved by Conde after Russell; the title page (with off-setting from the portrait) inscribed in ink Elizabeth Bligh 1792 in the hand of the author, William Bligh; pp. 264, with 7 engraved plates and charts (5 folding), bound in the following order: Plan Section of part of the Bounty Armed Transport, shewing the manner of fitting and stowing the Potts, for receiving the Bread-fruit plants (folding); Sections of the Bread Fruit ; Sketch from recollection and anchor-bearings of the North Part of Otaheite from Point Venus to Taowne Harbour by William Bligh , with his facsimile signature (folding); A Copy of the Draught from which the Bounty s Launch was built (folding); Chart of Bligh s Islands , incorporating smaller inset Chart of the Northern Part of the New-Hebrides (folding); NE Coast of New Holland ; and Track of the Bounty s Laun

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