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The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch. As related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer

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Sale 479: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Michael Killigrew desTombe (with additions) (#479) 05/10/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #83 The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch. As related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$312.50

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(Golden Cockerel Press)

Title:

The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch. As related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer

Author:

Blight, William & John Fryer

Place Published:

Waltham St. Lawrance

Publisher:

The Golden Cockerel Press

Date Published:

1934

Description:

86, [1] pp. Introduction by Owen Rutter. Wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 31.8x18.8 cm. (12½x7¼"), red & white cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 42 of 300 copies printed at the Golden Cockerel Press on Arnold's All Rag Paper.

Formerly in the South Sea Library of Alvin & Ethel Seale, with their ink note to that effect on the back of the frontispiece, dated Feb. 7, 1934, along with their blindstamp; ink number on title-page verso, slightly bleeding through.

Condition:

Some shelf wear, top corners a bit bumped; vertical darkened streaks/stains to endpapers, a bit of offset from frontispiece to title, else very good.

Item#:

227916

Headline:

Voyage of the Bounty's Launch Golden Cockerel
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