Books and Manuscripts · Lote 1664

[Pitcairn]. Murray, Th.B.

Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a short account of The Mutiny of the Bounty. London, SPCK, 1853, 2nd ed., 315p., 1 woodengr. map, 8 plates, 2 lithogr. portraits, orig. gilt and blindst. cl., sm. 8vo.

Lote: 1664
Subasta: Auction 84, 19-22 May 2026
Sección: FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
Estimación: 100 € – 150 €
Remate: 100 €
Fotos: 1 foto

Estado

A few leaves sl. dam. in lower outer blank corner. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip. Sm. traces of ticket on upper pastedown. Good copy.

Notas

Published in the same year as the first edition. Ferguson 13008; cf. Kroepelien 882 and Hill 1208: "(...) Pitcairn, which became home to a unique Anglo-Polynesian population after the Bounty mutiny, was named for the first European to sight it, Robert Pitcairn, in 1767. (...)". "Victoriaanse klassieker" (B. Büch, Blauwzee, p.168).