ID 1026106
Лот 2 | A Voyage to the South Seas, 1792, contemporary mottled calf
Оценочная стоимость
£ 4 000 – 6 000
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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