The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

Book Description

John Murray, London, 1831. First Edition. 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, xii, 356 pages, contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and tips, marbled edges, worn at edges and tips, Includes 6 etchings from original drawings by Lieutenant-Colonel Batty. Hill 68: "This first edition was apparently the only authorized one. Barrow gives a most interesting account of the later fortunes of the mutineers; also an account of the voyage and wreck of the Pandora, bringing back the mutineers from Tahiti; the trial of the mutineers; letters written by Capt. Peter Haywood to his sister; and the discovery of John Adams and the Bounty descendants on Pitcairn Island.

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