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Published by Permission of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY. London, printed for George Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1792.. TITLE CONTINUED: 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. FIRST EDITION 1792. 4to, approximately 315 x 240 mm, 12½ x 9½ inches, untrimmed copy, engraved frontispiece portrait of Bligh plus 7 other engraved plates, 5 folding, pages: [10], [1]-264. Chapter xiii, page 154: A Mutiny in the Ship. Rebound in half modern blue calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered label, gilt ships to spine, gilt rules, gilt raised bands and gilt date to foot of spine, marbled endpapers, pages untrimmed as issued, title page and many pages with watermark. Offset from engraved plates onto text, pale browning and staining to frontispiece, pale offset and age-browning to title page,…

An account of Lieutenant William Bligh's journey and experiences leading up to the infamous Bounty mutiny.