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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Bligh, William (1754-1817) A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty.
London: George Nicol, 1790.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated with folding frontispiece of the unnamed twenty-foot launch that saved Bligh and his company when ejected from the Bounty by Fletcher Christian; with three engraved charts (of which two are folding), bound in full contemporary speckled calf with handsome original label (front joint cracked, board nearly detached); with armorial bookplates of two different John Peyto Verney's Lord Willoughby de Broke, 18th and 19th century; ownership inscription of A. W. Bagley dated 1925; and C.J.E. Ritter, also likely 20th century; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Ferguson 71; Hill 132; ESTC T7185.
From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
