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Auction archive: Lot number 153

BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship , London: printed for George Nicol, 1792.

Auction 08.05.2003
8 May 2003
Estimate
£5,000 - £8,000
ca. US$8,119 - US$12,990
Price realised:
£5,640
ca. US$9,158
Auction archive: Lot number 153

BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship , London: printed for George Nicol, 1792.

Auction 08.05.2003
8 May 2003
Estimate
£5,000 - £8,000
ca. US$8,119 - US$12,990
Price realised:
£5,640
ca. US$9,158
Beschreibung:

BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship , London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. 4° (307 x 232mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, plans and charts. (Portrait with small piece torn away from inner blank margin, title with short clean marginal tear, L1 with short clean tear and small piece torn from bottom corner, Gg1 with short clean marginal tear, a few leaves with small holes or slightly frayed edges, occasional mainly light spotting and offsetting, ownership signatures on portrait verso and title) [bound with] 4 leaves extracted from William Wales's A Defence of the Arguments advanced in the Introduction to Captain Cook's Last Voyage, against the existence of Cape Circumcision [London, 1785] (corner of last leaf torn away, some light spotting.) 19th-century green textured cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (very lightly rubbed and stained). Provenance : J. R. Scott (bookplate); Wm. ?Shairp 1825 (signature on front free endpaper and title). FIRST EDITION of the most famous voyage in recent history, relating the events of the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, setting Bligh and eighteen loyal crewmen adrift in a 23-foot long launch shortly after the ship had left Tahiti in April 1789. In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half thousand miles from Tofoa to Timor in six weeks over largely uncharted waters. What is not so well known is that in the course of this hazardous journey, Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of "New Holland" as he passed along it. Bligh's account of the mutiny and his journey was published as A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty (London, 1790). The above work is the official account of the Bounty 's voyage and edited, at Bligh's request, by the historian James Burney under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks, as Bligh had left on his second voyage to the South Seas in the Providence at the end of 1791. Ferguson 125; Hill Pacific Voyages p.27; Sabin 5910; Wantrup pp.128-130.

Auction archive: Lot number 153
Auction:
Datum:
8 May 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty ... including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship , London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. 4° (307 x 232mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, plans and charts. (Portrait with small piece torn away from inner blank margin, title with short clean marginal tear, L1 with short clean tear and small piece torn from bottom corner, Gg1 with short clean marginal tear, a few leaves with small holes or slightly frayed edges, occasional mainly light spotting and offsetting, ownership signatures on portrait verso and title) [bound with] 4 leaves extracted from William Wales's A Defence of the Arguments advanced in the Introduction to Captain Cook's Last Voyage, against the existence of Cape Circumcision [London, 1785] (corner of last leaf torn away, some light spotting.) 19th-century green textured cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (very lightly rubbed and stained). Provenance : J. R. Scott (bookplate); Wm. ?Shairp 1825 (signature on front free endpaper and title). FIRST EDITION of the most famous voyage in recent history, relating the events of the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, setting Bligh and eighteen loyal crewmen adrift in a 23-foot long launch shortly after the ship had left Tahiti in April 1789. In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half thousand miles from Tofoa to Timor in six weeks over largely uncharted waters. What is not so well known is that in the course of this hazardous journey, Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of "New Holland" as he passed along it. Bligh's account of the mutiny and his journey was published as A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty (London, 1790). The above work is the official account of the Bounty 's voyage and edited, at Bligh's request, by the historian James Burney under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks, as Bligh had left on his second voyage to the South Seas in the Providence at the end of 1791. Ferguson 125; Hill Pacific Voyages p.27; Sabin 5910; Wantrup pp.128-130.

Auction archive: Lot number 153
Auction:
Datum:
8 May 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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