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BLIGH, WILLIAM. Capitainens vid Engelske Ammiralitetet Wiliam Bligh's Resa i Söderhafvet åren 1788, 1789, 1790. hans half-årige Vistande på ön O-taheitioch hemresa från on Timor till England. xvi, 219, [1] pages * Engelske Capitainens Wilhelm Blighs Resa, Genom Södra Werlds-Hafvet, tolf hundrade Sjömit i Öpen Båt, från Tofoa till Timor. [4], 119, [1] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo and 12mo, contemporary 1/2 sheep, stain on spine; contents clean. Nyköping: Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795; Upsala: widow of Joh. Edman, 1792
scarce first editions in swedish. The first work is a translation of Bligh's 1792 official account of the Bounty expedition, made from the German version by Georg Forster omitting the portion on the mutiny; the second work is abridged from Bligh's 1790 narrative of the mutiny. Ferguson 216, 129; Kroepelien 96, 90 (describing the second title as "almost unprocurable").
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