Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BLIGH, WILLIAM. A Voyage to the South Sea . . . 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 [etc.]. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; engraved plate of bread fruit. [14] (of [16]), 376 pages, lacking blank(?) preliminary leaf. 8vo, 197x119 mm, contemporary sheep with leather lettering piece, moderate wear, top of spine chipped, minor stains on covers; cover edges rubbed; contents generally clean. Chateau des Perrays armorial bookplate; rubberstamps of A. F. Dutroulau on frontispiece verso and last page, and L. Lapeyrouse de Bonfils in lower margin of title. Dublin: H. Fitzpatrick for P. Wogan et al., 1792

Additional Details

first dublin edition of the official account of the Bounty expedition, including a revised version of Bligh's 1790 Narrative of the Mutiny. Ferguson 127.