"THE GENTLE ISLAND, AND THE GENIAL SOIL,/ THE FRIENDLY HEARTS, THE FEASTS WITHOUT A TOIL" (BYRON)
(BOUNTY MUTINY) [BARROW, Admiral John]. A Description of Pitcairn's Island… with an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty. New-York, 1832.
First American edition of this account of the Bounty mutiny, with two engraved illustrations, including one by "Alexander Smith," the alias of John Adams, one of the mutineers and later governor of the English settlement on Pitcairn Island. $1250.
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