Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'
Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'
About this item
Full title
Date
1790-1794, 1800-1834
Call Numbers
SAFE/C 695
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts and Clippings
Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material (427 pp.) - full leather binding, spine blocked in gold 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty', covers tools and blocked in gold, marbled endpapers, manuscript, print with manuscript annotations, clippings
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Level of description
Series
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Bound volume containing Bligh publications:
1. 'A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's ship Bounty; 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'. London, George Nicol, 1790.
Printed text with manuscript annotations...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'
Notes
General note
Frontispiece missing from publications 1 and 2.
Microfilm copy available at CY 1380, frames 15-349.
Some Mitchell Library repairs to volume.
Signature / Inscriptions
Publication 1: Title page inscribed 'James Bligh', page 88 inscribed with biblical text on wisdom.
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from Alice Rose Oakes, 10 February 1937
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/C 695
Record Identifier
92eVB4BY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVB4BY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
421494
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