Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
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.]. 4 engraved plates and 4 maps. [10], 264 pages. 4to, 300x230 mm, contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt with morocco lettering piece, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners worn; light offsetting from engraved matter onto facing pages, folding plate and maps lightly offset, fingerprints in outer margin of page 181, pages adjacent to last map heavily toned. Armorial bookplates of Lord Wenman and Moncure Biddle. London: George Nicol, 1792

Additional Details

first edition of the official account of the Bounty expedition, including a revised version of the Bligh's 1790 Narrative of the Mutiny. Hill 135.