A Voyage to the South Seas, 1792, contemporary mottled calf

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Los 2 | A Voyage to the South Seas, 1792, contemporary mottled calf
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 on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tofua, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor. London: printed for George Nicoll, 1792

FIRST EDITION, 4to (298 x 234mm.), frontispiece portrait, 4 folding charts (including 'Chart of the north east coast of New Holland'), 2 folding plans, and one plate depicting the breadfruit, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt-ruled, red morocco label, some browning, slight loss at head of spine, short split at foot of front joint

THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BOUNTY EXPEDITION, including a revised version of Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny (1790). The account was based on Bligh's journals but was probably ghost-written by Captain James Burney (brother of the novelist Frances Burney) and seen through the press under the auspices of Sir Joseph Banks while Bligh was away on his second breadfruit voyage.
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