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Anon. [Sir John Barrow]. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: its causes and consequences. London: John Murray, 1831.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Description: No inscriptions. Tissue guard to dampstained frontispiece intact. It shows George Young and his wife against a mountainous background on Pitcairn Island. Weight: 1 Language: English Quarter leather binding, comb-marbled boards

Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom

[Barrow, John]. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences. John Murray, London, 1831.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 5.5 x 3.5 in., pp. xi, 356, with half-title, frontispiece, and five other engraved plates, in original printed cloth boards identifying this as No. XXV in the Family Library series. Recased, with original cloth--somewhat stained and faded--laid down. Some loss of original cloth along the joints, endpapers replaced. Binding tight, text clean. Hill 68: "This first edition was apparently the only authorized one. Barrow gives a most interesting account of the later fortunes of the mutineers; also an account of the voyage and wreck of the Pandora, bringing back the mutineers from Tahiti; the trial of the mutineers; letters written by Capt. Peter Heywood to his sister; and the discovery of John Adams and the Bounty descendants on Pitcairn Island." O'Reilly & Reitman 573.

Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.

[John Barrow]. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences. John Murray, London, 1831.

Price: US$376.87 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The first edition of the first account of the 1789 mutiny and seizure of the H.M.S. Bounty, an interesting and illustrated account. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four plates.Collated, bound without the half-title and the plate facing page 187.An interesting account of the mutiny and seizure of the H.M.S. Bounty, in which disaffected crewmen seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, in 1789.This was the first account to be published, written from the diaries of honorary midshipman Peter Heywood. The author, Sir John Barrow, was a friend of the Heywood family.In this work Barrow started the legend that the man who led the mutiny, Fletcher Christian, had not died after settling on Pitcairn Island after the mutiny, but had survived and returned to England. Rebound in a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Cloth to the boards is a little cockled. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards and spine, and light rubbing to the joints and extremities. Hinges are starting but firm. Institutional label to the front paste down. Stamp to the rear paste down. Lacking the front endpaper. Rear endpaper is detaching. Loss of paper to the head of the rear paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned with some spotting. Final leaf of text with detaching with the rear endpaper, with one chip, resulting in loss to roughly six words. Bound without the half-title and one plate. Pages 215 to 218 are working loose. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

[BARROW, John]. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty : its cause and consequences. Illustrated by six etchings from original crawings by Lieut.-Colonel Batty.. John Murray,, 1831.

Price: US$493.18 + shipping

Description: Small 8vo. xii, 356 p. Engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates. Modern half calf with marbled boards. A very good copy.

Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom