Books and Manuscripts · Lot 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.

Lot: 1664
Vente: Auction 84, 19-22 May 2026
Section: FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
Estimation: 100 € – 150 €
Adjugé: 100 €
Photos: 1 photo

État

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.

Remarques

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).