[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated Edition of Capt. Bligh's VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $80 NET

BLIGH, Capt. William. A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS 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 TOFAO, ONE 
OF THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS, TO TIMOR, A DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN THE EAST 
INDIES. Adelaide, South Australia: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Tall 
folio (9-5/8" x 14") bound in full tan homespun linen with the covers 
printed in terra cotta with nautical silhouettes by Geoffrey Ingleton; 
176 pages. Printed at the Griffin Press; introduction by Alan Villiers. 
Copy #1087 of 2000 numbered copies designed by Douglas Dunstan and 
illustrated by Geoffrey Ingleton with 3 full-page color plates and 22 
in-text line drawings. He also drew a map of the southwest Pacific for 
the front endpapers and a plan of the Bounty's main rigging for the rear 
endpapers. The frontispiece reproduces the portrait of Admiral Bligh 
painted by John Smart in 1797. SIGNED by the artist and by the designer 
on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in lightly worn 
glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#008342)        $100.00

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