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BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817. A Voyage to the South Sea ... for the Purpose of conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty.... London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. image 1
BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817. A Voyage to the South Sea ... for the Purpose of conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty.... London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. image 2
BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817. A Voyage to the South Sea ... for the Purpose of conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty.... London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. image 3
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BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817.
A Voyage to the South Sea ... for the Purpose of conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty.... London: printed for George Nicol, 1792.

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BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817.

A Voyage to the South Sea ... for the Purpose of conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty.... London: printed for George Nicol, 1792.
4to (285 x 222 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates and maps (6 folding). Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Joints cracked, cords firm, chipping to corners, some rubbing and scuffing to covers, foxing and browning, bookplates on front paste-down.

FIRST EDITION of Bligh's official account of the voyage of the Bounty and one of the "most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history" (Hill). Bligh's mission was to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, but the mission became more famous for the mutiny led by Master's Mate Fletcher Christian. This contains the first published account of the mutiny, taken from Bligh's own journals. Bligh's legendary 3,600-nautical-mile voyage in uncharted waters from Tofoa to Timor with eighteen loyal men in the Bounty's open launch is a remarkable tale of courage and survival. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Sabin 5910; Wantrup pp 128-130.

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