Relation de l'enlevement du navire le Bounty, appartenant au roi d'Angleterre, & commandé par le lieutenant Guillaume Bligh; avec le voyage subséquent de cet officier & d'une partie de son équipage dans sa chaloupe depuis les iles des Amis dans la Mer du Sud, jusqu'à Timor .

Bligh, William

Verlag: Firmin Didot; Amsterdam, Gabriel Dufour, Paris, 1790

First French edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 172; 3 engraved folding maps (of Bligh's route, islands discovered in the Fiji group, and N.E. of Cape York Peninsula, Australia); contemporary full speckled calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; blindstamped supralibros on upper cover of the Marquis of Stafford, and with his bookplate on the front pastedown; top of spine chipped, front joint starting, extremities rubbed and worn; overall a good copy but internally fine with the maps in a fine state of preservation. Translation of A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty. London, 1790, by Daniel Lescallier (1743-1822), cartographer, hydrographer and commissioner of the French Navy. This is Bligh's own account of the mutiny and his harrowing 40-day boat journey to Timor whence he returned to England to tell his remarkable tale. This edition not in Hill, Pacific Voyages. Sabin 5909. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 60221

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Titel: Relation de l'enlevement du navire le Bounty...
Verlag: Firmin Didot; Amsterdam, Gabriel Dufour, Paris
Erscheinungsdatum: 1790
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage