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Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'

Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVB4BY

Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'

About this item

Full title

Series 09: Reverend James Bligh, papers, 'Bligh's Mutiny Bounty'

Date

1790-1794, 1800-1834

Call Numbers

SAFE/C 695

Record Identifier

92eVB4BY

Reference Code

421494
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

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Series

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright

Please acknowledge: : State Library of New South Wales

Issue Copy

Microfilm

More information

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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