voyage south sea undertaken command de bligh lieutenant william (10 résultats)

Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in green decorative panel to spine, frontispiece portrait of Capt. Bligh, vi + folding Bounty ship's plan + 264pp, illus with folding maps, VG (some foxing to page edges, v slight tanning to eps, creasing to edges of one map due to mis-folding).

4to (30x21.2cm), hardback, 264pp + fold-out maps & plan of the Bounty. B&w frontispiece of Bligh. Very good condition. Tan cloth, gilt lettering of title and author on green panel at spine. Bumped, spine lightly canted, a tad age-toned. Pictures available on request.

Hard Cover. Etat : 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.

Cloth. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. pp.264. Early cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the Bounty, has very minor marginal damage. plus 6 other folding maps and plans, but lacks portrait of Lieutenant Bligh. Some early hand-written pencilannotations regarding the ship's crew and their destinies. Fine, clear interior, without foxing, uncut copy with wide unusually margins.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B06XDY1GB3 Hardback. No dustjacket. bound in blue cloth. ORIGNAL 1967 Facsimile Limited edition from Rare Books Ltd. Book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good Plus condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. This book is 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 Original 1967 facsimile Edition. No Signature.

264 pp, quarto, tinted end papers, fold-out maps, previous owner's name on blank prelim, d/j spine slightly faded, black mark on bottom edge, else fine copy in very good, illustrated d/j. First published 1792 - Australiania Facsimile Edition.

264 pp, quarto, tinted end papers, fold-out maps, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j. First published 1792, facsimile edition.

TITLE CONTINUED: 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. FIRST EDITION 1792. 4to, approximately 315 x 240 mm, 12½ x 9½ inches, untrimmed copy, engraved frontispiece portrait of Bligh plus 7 other engraved plates, 5 folding, pages: [10], [1]-264. Chapter xiii, page 154: A Mutiny in the Ship. Rebound in half modern blue calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered label, gilt ships to spine, gilt rules, gilt raised bands and gilt date to foot of spine, marbled endpapers, pages untrimmed as issued, title page and many pages with watermark. Offset from engraved plates onto text, pale browning and staining to frontispiece, pale offset and age-browning to title page, bread-fruit tree outer margin trimmed, 1 blank corner neatly repaired, not affecting text, neat repairs to strengthen a few edges at beginning, a few small neat repairs to blank margins, hardly noticeable, pale browning and pale stains to margins, heavier at beginning and end, edges a little soft and ragged with small closed tears due to being untrimmed, especially the frontispiece and last large folding plate (see attached images), pale staining to large folding plate, a little light black speckling to plates and a few margins, not unslightly, occasional small brown spot, pale browning to 2 pages at rear either side of map, otherwise a fair working copy. The Hill Collection of Voyages, on page 27 states: " An extremely important book. This is the first edition of the official account of the Bounty expedition. It includes a somewhat revised version of the text of Bligh's narrative"; Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia, Volume 1, page 51; Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800, page 124-125; Cox, A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, No. 1792; Sotheby's, The Library of Franklin Brooks-Hitching, Part 1, No. 144; Rachel Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume 2, pages, 504-505, No. 723; The Parsons Collection, Hordern House, part 2, No.154. Rolf Du Rietz, Bibilotheca Polynesiana, A Catalogue formed by Bjarne Kroepelien, page 34, No. 93. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

HARDCOVER. Etat : 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.

Hardcover. Etat : 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.