Author: BLIGH, CAPTAIN W.
Title: The Log Of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793.
Description: Facsimile Copy of the original log now preserved in The Public Record Office in London; Small folio; pp. 951; coloured frontispiece, 5 folding maps, numerous illustrations and reproductions in the text, original half calf, raised bands, gilt decorated boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner's bookplate (S. A. Hicks) on front endpaper, fine copy in original slipcase. Guildford, Genesis Publications Ltd., 1976. Edition limited to five hundred copies of which this is copy number 440. This voyage of Bligh's to deliver the breadfruit plant to the West Indies was an unqualified success in contrast to his earlier ill-fated voyage in the Bounty.
Keywords: mar Captain William Bligh Providence maritime history breadfruit West Indies
Title: The Log Of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793.
Description: Facsimile Copy of the original log now preserved in The Public Record Office in London; Small folio; pp. 951; coloured frontispiece, 5 folding maps, numerous illustrations and reproductions in the text, original half calf, raised bands, gilt decorated boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner's bookplate (S. A. Hicks) on front endpaper, fine copy in original slipcase. Guildford, Genesis Publications Ltd., 1976. Edition limited to five hundred copies of which this is copy number 440. This voyage of Bligh's to deliver the breadfruit plant to the West Indies was an unqualified success in contrast to his earlier ill-fated voyage in the Bounty.
Keywords: mar Captain William Bligh Providence maritime history breadfruit West Indies
Price: AUD 1450.00 = appr. US$ 1003.21 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 106734
- Book number: 106734