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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  11
• Lot Description:
  Bligh, Lieutenant William. A Voyage to the South Sea
  undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty... Including an Account of the Mutiny on board the said Ship, and the subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Quarto, lacking frontispiece portrait but otherwise complete with three plates (two folding, one of which is neatly backed), and four charts (three folding), later calf-backed marbled boards, little rubbed. London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792.
• Notes:
  First edition of the complete official account of the Bounty voyage and the mutiny. Published after Bligh had left on his second and successful breadfruit voyage in the Providence at the end of 1791, the official account was prepared for the press by his former shipmate, James Burney, the future historian of Pacific discovery, with the assistance of Sir Joseph Banks. Ferguson, 125; Hill 2, 135; Kroepelien, 93; Sabin, 5910; Wantrup, 62a.
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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