BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of
BLIGH, 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. London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition, 4to (284 x 117mm.) Title, author’s ‘Advertisement’, 7 engraved maps and charts, some folding. (Lacking portrait frontispiece and all preliminaries before title, lacking rear blank, front blank replaced, occasional intermittent spotting, 2 plates with heavy spotting, marginal chipping to 1 plate, leaves Hh4-Kk with marginal tear.) Later blue cloth (endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Note: a mounted paper note states the book was presented to Cranleigh school by Captain Barnard Hankey, R.N. along with 200 other volumes relating to voyages of discovery. Provenance: Cranleigh School (stamp to title and bookplate to front-free endpaper, and manuscript numbering in white to spine); Frederick Barnard Hankey, R.N. (mounted paper clipping to front-free endpaper).
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BLIGH, 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. London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition, 4to (284 x 117mm.) Title, author’s ‘Advertisement’, 7 engraved maps and charts, some folding. (Lacking portrait frontispiece and all preliminaries before title, lacking rear blank, front blank replaced, occasional intermittent spotting, 2 plates with heavy spotting, marginal chipping to 1 plate, leaves Hh4-Kk with marginal tear.) Later blue cloth (endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Note: a mounted paper note states the book was presented to Cranleigh school by Captain Barnard Hankey, R.N. along with 200 other volumes relating to voyages of discovery. Provenance: Cranleigh School (stamp to title and bookplate to front-free endpaper, and manuscript numbering in white to spine); Frederick Barnard Hankey, R.N. (mounted paper clipping to front-free endpaper).
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