File 5: Extracts from contemporary navigational manuals with manuscript annotations by Bligh togethe...
File 5: Extracts from contemporary navigational manuals with manuscript annotations by Bligh together with material regarding the Bounty voyage
About this item
Full title
Date
1769-1822
Call Numbers
SAFE/DLMS 186
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material (220 pp.) - print with manuscript annotations, manuscript
Other Descriptions
Level of description
File
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Contains four separately printed instructions and tables for astronomical observations (published in 1769), bound together with notes, calculations etc. written in the margins and on front fly leaf and interleaved pages.
Manuscript material from front fly leaf to back of volume.
1. Inscription by former owner.
2. 'A Table for t...
Alternative Titles
Full title
File 5: Extracts from contemporary navigational manuals with manuscript annotations by Bligh together with material regarding the Bounty voyage
Notes
General note
Probably accompanied him on his voyage with Captain James Cook, 1776-1780.
Microfilm copy at available at CY 223.
Signature / Inscriptions
Notes, calculations etc. written in the margins and on front fly leaf and interleaved pages mostly in Bligh's hand and signed or intialled by Bligh. Three of the printed texts are signed and dated 'Wm Bligh 1775'. Inscription by former owner 'The book I met with and purchased for 4d at a Broker's shop in High Street, Gravesend, in Oct. 1822...'.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson in 1952.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/DLMS 186
Record Identifier
nQRe3rj1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQRe3rj1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9653399
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