MARITIME AUSTRALIANA

Very Competitive price! Now published for the first time from the manuscript in the Admiralty records, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, comments on Bligh’s navigation by Rear-Admiral J.A. Edgell Comments on Bligh’s Navigation by Rear Admiral J. A. Edgell, O.B.E., Hydrographer of the Navy, and Four Engravings on Wood by Lynton Lamb. In two volumes. pp. 436 (last blank)+ 260 (last colophon), pictorial double title page both volumes, full page plan of the Bounty’s launch, 2 full page charts, colophon decoration; narrow roy. 4to; qr. red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cream & green ‘sail-type’ cloth boards

” … printed from the official manuscript in the Admiralty records by Christopher & Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press … and completed on the 10th day of March, 1937. The edition is limited to 300 sets of the two volumes, printed on mould-made paper.”

• 2 v. : ill. ; 32 cm. #081223 First Edition. 2 volumes complete. SCARCE Very competitive price!
• Number 30 of the Edition limited to 300 numbered sets on mould-made paper. 
• Light foxing to prelims and light rubbing to cloth edges. Tight copies of this splendid set of highly collectable books. Discolouration/soiling (2cm x 1.5cm) and cloth wear (1.5cm) to top of Volume 2 spine cover corner.
• • Bounty (Ship)
  • Voyages and travels
  • Bounty Mutiny, 1789
  • Oceania — Description and travel
  • Oceania — Discovery and exploration

  Other authors/contributors:

  • Sandford, Christopher
  • Sandford, Anthony
  • Lamb, Lynton, 1907-1977
  • Rutter, Owen, 1889-1944
  • Edgell, John, Sir, 1880-1962
  • Golden Cockerel Press