[Bligh.] Golden Cockerel Press.
Bligh's Voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison's journal. All printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, & engravings on wood by Peter Barker-Mill.
Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, 1937.
One of 350 copies printed in Caslon on Van Gelder paper. Folio. pp. 160; 6 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, facsimiles of Bligh's own map and of pages from the Log; previous owner's bookplate, very good in the original blue and white 'sail-type' binding, gilt, rubbed, a very good copy.
NMMC I.625a; Pertelote 120. The first appearance in print of Captain Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, with details of the events following the mutiny on the Bounty during the taxing journey to Batavia, and the return to Britain.
£425
Stock no: 8679
