Bligh William Lieutenant (27 results)

Illus. card covers. Condition: Vg. (8)-158 Pp.B&w illus. and maps throughout Edited by Robert Bowman.

First Sutton Edition: Paperback, cream pictorial covers, black titles, 170 x 250 mm., 400g., 158 pp., with Index, illustrated, VG copy.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Dustwrapper, pp.158.Illustrated. Edited by Robert Bowman. Publishers file copy with appropriate labels on inside wrapper / pastedown ( partly obscuring blurb ) and on front endpaper. Dustwrapper has a small worn split to cover top edge next to the spine corner, but otherwise clean and sound. Contents clean and tight. At least good in dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Has been read but a very nice clean tight bright copy. Bligh published this narrative in 1790 to try and vindicate himself from charges that he had ill-treated and cruelly abused his crew. Also with an account of his epic voyage after being cast adrift from the Bounty. Plates drawings and maps (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 158pp; name crossed out in biro on flyleaf. A touch of fading to edges of the boards which are slightly askew. Light shelfwear to jacket, corners of boards lightly bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pp.(xiv)+264. 27.5cm. Frontispiece portrait. Plan of The Bounty, Bread-fruit, plan of the Bounty's launch, 3 charts, foxing in the margin of one, and a plan, some folding. Hard cover in dust jacket. Good clean copy.(Facsimile reprint of the London1792 edition). (Weighs 1.3kg).…

Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in green decorative panel to spine, frontispiece portrait of Capt. Bligh, vi + folding Bounty ship's plan + 264pp, illus with folding maps, VG (some foxing to page edges, v slight tanning to eps, creasing to edges of one map due to mis-folding).

8vo (25.5x17.5cm), hardback, 158pp + several b&w plates & illustrations in text. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, some creasing, faded spine and edges, lightly chipped at spine extremities and corners, several small tears including 1cm tear to upper rear, scuff marks and indents to surface). Light foxing, mild wear, some creasing to the edges of b&w plates. Pictures available on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B06XDY1GB3 Hardback. No dustjacket. bound in blue cloth. ORIGNAL 1967 Facsimile Limited edition from Rare Books Ltd. Book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good Plus condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. This book is 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 Original 1967 facsimile Edition. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book is in great shape, very clean and sharp all around, looking as new. Dust jacket has a small scuff to bottom edge of front but is looking otherwise as new, very clean and attractive. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus. Type: Book This book is a facsimile of the 1792 George Nicol 1st Edition.

158 pp including index, map, diagram, line drawings, plates, very good copy in like illustrated d/j. Reprints Bligh's accounts with extra plates. First printing 1981.

Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121, of the 1792 original. (12), 264 PP, plus 1 plate with breadfruit, 2 folded plans and 4 maps (3 of them folded). Fp: Portrait of Capt. Bligh. Cloth cover, gilt title on green vignette on spine. Small lighter spot on front cover, neat name and address of previous owner on FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. 29.7 x 23.2. Voyage from England via Capetown, St. Paul & Van Diemen's Land to Tahiti. Sojourn & description, sailing from Tahiti, mutiny off Tofua, open boat voyage to Coupang in Dutch Timor, passage to England.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.264. Early cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the Bounty, has very minor marginal damage. plus 6 other folding maps and plans, but lacks portrait of Lieutenant Bligh. Some early hand-written pencilannotations regarding the ship's crew and their destinies. Fine, clear interior, without foxing, uncut copy with wide unusually margins. …

Condition: Sehr gut. Scarce and early pirated edition. 22 x 13.5 cm. vii, (1), 144 pages. [[A]4, B8-K8]. Watermarked Paper. Contemporary cloth. Rough cut edges. Condition: Binding seriously rubbed, bumped, (damp) stained and faded (see images). Front joint open at the top of spine. Front free end paper and large part of half title page missing. Large part (c. 80%) of leaf D8 (pages 47 & 48) missing (a facsimile page printed on archival photo paper is losely inserted). Top section of the book damp stained. Edges dust dulled. Some minor nicks, tears & creases). Name of previous owner in colour pencil on 'Advertisement' page. Otherwise internally clean. The book would benefit greatly from rebinding. Despite its faults it remains a fascinating copy and a terrific read. Captain Bligh's initial account on the most famous mutiny in maritime history, written shortly after returning to England in March 1790. From the book's 'Advertisement' page: "This part of the voyage is not first in the order of time, yet the circumstances are so distinct from that by which it was preceded, that it appears unnecessary to delay giving as much early information as possible concerning so extraordinary an event. The rest will be laid before the Public as soon as it can be got ready; and it is intented to publish it in such a manner, as, with the present Narrative, will make the account of the voyage complete." William Bligh's Narrative covers the period from April 4, 1789, to March 14, 1790; that is from the departure of the Bounty from Otaheite (Tahiti) to his own arrival back in Britain. The Mutiny on the Bounty took place April 28, three weeks after departure. Bligh published his narrativel several months after his return to London. Titled 'Narrative of the Mutiny on the Bounty', it was a bestseller for the publisher, George Nicol. Bligh published an expanded account, A Voyage to the South Sea, in 1792. Bligh's narrative called the voyage one of "uninterrupted prosperity," and made no mention of personal differences with the crew. Bligh's 1790 'Narrative' was consequently published (pirated) in Dublin, Philadelphia, Rotterdam, and Paris & Amsterdam the same year: Official First Edition: London (George Nicol). Pirated Editions (all 1790): Dublin (White, Byrne et al), Philadelphia (W. Spotswood), Paris & Amsterdam (Didot & Dufour), (French), Rotterdam (G.A. Arenberg): (Dutch). Note: Unlike the First (George Nicol, London) Edition; the Dublin Edition was published without charts & plans.…

Hard Cover. Facsimile. 4to. original brown cloth, gilt spine label; pp. [xii], 264, with frontispiece portrait, folding plans and maps. A fine copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121.

,; Demy 4to; pp. [vi], v, 88, iv, 79, ii, 31, 11; 1 folding diagram, 2 folding charts, 1 map, publisher's boards in chipped dustwrapper, a near fine copy. . . Limited Facsimile volume containing the four items relating to the mutiny on the Bounty. Lmited to1000 numbered copies this being number 839.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A smart limited edition copy of this collection of four facsimile works on the mutiny on HMS Bounty by William Bligh and Edward Christian, with folding plates. A limited edition copy, with this being no.161 of one-thousand copies for sale. The second volume of 'The Australiana Facsimiles' series. In the publisher's original full black morocco binding. Containing four works bound into one: 'Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny on Board H.M. Ship Bounty', 'Minutes of the Court Martial', 'Bligh's Answer to Certain Assertions', and 'Edward Christian's Short Reply'. Illustrated with a folding map and two folding charts. Collated, complete. A collection of works on the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, where disaffected crewmen seized control of theRoyal Navy merchant ship from its captain,LieutenantWilliam Bligh, and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's openlaunch. In the publisher's original full morocco binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to extremities of spine. Bookseller's sticker to front paste down. Slight marks to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Dust Jacket. 1st Limited Edition. pp XIX, 150. 1st printing. An unread book in a fine condition slipcase. Numbered 1839 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. Signed by the Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition thus. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton and designed by Douglas A. Dunstan. Near fine with owner's decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown, without dustwrapper as issued and housed in a very good slipcase with some scuffing. Number 1004 of an edition of 2000 numbered and Signed by the illustrator and designer. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First thus edition. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton and designed by Douglas A. Dunstan. Fine. Housed in a very good slipcase with light fading around the opening. Number 1842 of an edition of 2000 numbered and Signed by the illustrator and designer.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition thus. 376pp, octavo, stunningly rebound in full leather, bright gilt backstrip titles, burgundy title, brown leather boards are clean and smooth, clean throughout save for dampstain to top edge of page 17 (b/w plate). The same page is also torn along bottom edge. Slight worming to page block, tightly bound, toned and foxed page edges, pencil notes to the ffep, owner's name on top of title page. An especially beautiful copy of this landmark work. Masterfully rebound by C.A Carpenter, Jr. of Shrewsbury, MA.…

264 pp, quarto, tinted end papers, fold-out maps, previous owner's name on blank prelim, d/j spine slightly faded, black mark on bottom edge, else fine copy in very good, illustrated d/j. First published 1792 - Australiania Facsimile Edition.

264 pp, quarto, tinted end papers, fold-out maps, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j. First published 1792, facsimile edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: George Nicol, 1792. 4to, Contemporary polished calf, spine with gilt fleurons in compartments,with 7 plates of plans and charts including a fine engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell, folding plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty s launch, a plate of bread-fruit, and 4 other plans and charts (3 folding), small signature erased from title not affecting text. RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SEA TALES IN ALL OF MARITIME LITERATURE. On their way to introduce the bread-fruit as a cash crop to the West Indies from the South Sea Island, Bread-fruit Bligh and eighteen of his crew were set adrift by Fletcher Christian, the master s mate of the Bounty, and made a journey of about 4000 miles in an open boat before landing on the East Indian island of Timor. Several of the mutineers, who had settled on Pitcairn Island, were eventually captured and three were executed in England. An extremely important book (Hill, p. 27). Interestingly enough, Bligh was subjected to two further mutinies in his career, though only the last, in New South Wales, can be blamed upon the harsh exercise of authority. Though Bligh s account of the mutiny had been published first in 1790, it was because, as the publisher explains in his Advertisment, for the need of communicating early information concerning an event which attracted the public notice: and being drawn up in a hasty manner, it required many corrections. The present work is the first appearance of the story of the entire expedition. Having acquired a high reputation as a skillful navigator, [Bligh] was appointed to the Bounty, of 250 tons, in December 1787, arriving at his destination, Otaheite, ten months afterwards. Here he remained for five or six months, during which period his crew became demoralised by the luxurious climate and their apparently unrestricted intercourse with the natives. The object of the voyage, namely to obtain plants of the bread-fruit with a view to its acclimatisation in the British West India islands, having been accomplished, Bligh set out on his voyage thither. But his irascible temper and overbearing conduct excited (under the leadership of Fletcher Christian) a mutiny on board the ship; and on 28 April 1789 he, with eighteen of his crew, were overmastered and cast adrift in an open boat, only twenty-three feet long, and deeply laden; they had a small amount of provisions allotted to them, but no chart. In this frail craft they sailed, for nearly three months, a distance of 3,618 miles, touching at some small islands, where they got only a few shellfish and some fruit; but at length, thanks to Bligh s skill, resource, and courage, they reached Timor (DNB) Sabin 5910; Hill 135; Howgego, I, B107. …

First edition of Bligh's firsthand account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history [which ultimately absolved him] from any blame that might be levelled against him because of the incident" (Hill). Quarto, original boards, lacking the spine, engraved folding plan "A copy of the draft from which the Bounty's launch was built", three engraved folding charts ÂJ. Walker after W. Harrison. In good condition. Scarce in the original boards. The HMS Bounty was acquired by the Royal Navy in 1787 to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti (then rendered "Otaheite"), a Polynesian island in the south Pacific, to the British colonies in the West Indies. Command of the expedition was given to Lieutenant William Bligh, whose experiences included Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776â"80) in which he had served as sailing master, or chief navigator, on HMS Resolution. HMS Bounty left Spithead on 23 December 1787 with Bligh as captain, accompanied by a 44-man crew, two botanists, David Nelson and William Brown, and a diarist, James Morrison. Bligh reached Tahiti on 26 October 1788; after more than five months, the Bounty sailed for the West Indies laden with "more than 1,000 young breadfruit plants". On 28 April, after a few weeks at sea, Fletcher Christian, the master's mate, led sections of the crew in a mutiny and commandeered the Bounty, setting Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a 23-foot long launch. Despite being given little in terms of navigational tools, Bligh reached Coupang modern day Kupang, Timor, then a Dutch East India settlement on 14 June 1789, after a 3,500 mile long voyage. During 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 an extraordinary feat of seamanship" (Wantrup, Australian Rare Books 1788-1900). By the time of his return to England in August 1793, following his successful conveyance of breadfruit to the West Indies aboard Providence, professional and public opinion had turned against him. The present first edition of Bligh's account appeared two years prior to the full official version which pardoned him of any misconduct in the incident.…