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A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792 Full leather - 1793

by George Hamilton

  • Used
  • fair
  • Hardcover
  • first

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Berwick: Printed by and for W Phorson; B. Law and Son, 1793 An extremely scarce 1st edition copy. Classed as 'fair' because it is lacking the frontispiece portrait and has been rebound in a more recent (?1960's) full leather binding. HMS Pandora was sent to recover The Bounty after the famous mutiny. It sailed on 7 November 1790 and picked up 14 of the mutineers before running aground on the Great Barrier Reef. George Hamilton was the ship's surgeon and the only eye-witness to write up an account of the voyage. This copy is in newer full leather with raised bands and faintly tooled title and author to the spine. New page marker. Contents: initial blank; title page; text 161pp; blank; table of latitudes and longitudes pp 163/4; blank. Page edges are untrimmed and the text is in very good clean condition with light toning to paper. There are some interesting pieces of ephemera: a letter from a previous owner to the Daily Telegraph in 1961, telling them about the book because they had read about a diver possibly sighting the wreck. The Daily Telegraph returned it with their card pinned to the top in acknowledgment - but the owner notes that it was not published; a newspaper cutting about the Pandora Inn and an advertisement for a book sale where the owner presumably bought the book.
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  • Title A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792
  • Author George Hamilton
  • Binding Full-Leather
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Fair
  • Publisher Printed by and for W Phorson; B. Law and Son, Berwick
  • Date 1793
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 032262

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