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[Travel & Exploration] [Bligh, William], A Voyage to

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[Travel & Exploration] [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…
London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. 4to. [x], 264 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait, three engraved plates (two folding), and four engraved maps. Contemporary full polished calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, front and rear boards scuffed, some slight scratches to same, extremities and corners rubbed, spine remnants blistered; all edges trimmed; front hinge reinforced, frontispiece slightly foxed, title-page toned with some off-setting, some off-setting to plates and text, some foxing to large folding map facing p. 238; with the book-plate of the Earl of Dalhousie on front paste-down. In fall-down-back box. Sabin 5910; Hill 135.

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[Travel & Exploration] [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…
London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. 4to. [x], 264 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait, three engraved plates (two folding), and four engraved maps. Contemporary full polished calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, front and rear boards scuffed, some slight scratches to same, extremities and corners rubbed, spine remnants blistered; all edges trimmed; front hinge reinforced, frontispiece slightly foxed, title-page toned with some off-setting, some off-setting to plates and text, some foxing to large folding map facing p. 238; with the book-plate of the Earl of Dalhousie on front paste-down. In fall-down-back box. Sabin 5910; Hill 135.

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