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… including an account of the mutiny

A$12,500 · Offered by Hordern House

London: George Nicol, 1792. Quarto, with frontispiece portrait, an engraving of the breadfruit, and six plans and charts; handsome modern binding of polished calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments between raised bands, double labels. Great classic of the literature of the sea

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