INVENTORY #161589
A Voyage to the South Seas
BLIGH, Lt. William; INGLETON, Geoffrey C. (illus.)
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Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh, 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. Introduced by Alan Villiers and illustrated with watercolours and drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. The 1792 first-person account written by Lt. William Bligh detailing the expedition of HMS Bounty and the infamous Mutiny.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed at The Griffin Press in Adelaide, South Australia, for the members of The Limited Editions Club
- Edition: 2000 copies of whic this is no. 235, signed by Geoffrey Ingleton and book designer Douglas A. Dunstan
- Date Published: 1975
- Place Published: n/a
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
xix, 150 p. 37.5 cm. Colour frontispiece and plates. Olive green drawins within text. Beige cloth in black slipcase with tan label. Label has some dampstains and is lifting up at one edge. Faint mark on cloth above label. Light wear to slipcase edges. A bit of cracking in one corner.