Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea

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Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying of the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board said ship, and the subsequent voyage of the 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, 1st Dublin edition, printed by H. Fitzpatrick, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne..., 1792, [xvi], 376, single engraved plate of the Bread Fruit, lacking the portrait frontispiece of Captain Bligh, early manuscript annotations and corrections, including crossing out, mostly in ink, but including some in pencil, associated minor marginal soiling and several small stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf with 20th century reback, rubbed and some marks, 8vo

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Ferguson 127; Sabin 5910.

First Dublin edition of Bligh's official account of his voyage and the celebrated mutiny. The text was written and prepared by James Burney and Sir Joseph Banks from Bligh's journal, while the latter was on his second Bread Fruit voyage. The interesting manuscript annotations suggest that they were written by someone acquainted with the content of Bligh's journal, from which James Burney had prepared this abridgment.