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(Bounty Mutiny). Murray, Thomas Boyles, Rev. PITCAIRN; THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PASTOR; TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. 17th edition. Blind-stamped cloth, 386 pp., 16 full-page plates. Ex libris with spine markings and minor wear, else very good.
PITCAIRN: The Island, The People, and the Pastor. by Murray, Rev. Thomas Boyles - 1860
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1860. To Which is Added A Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. xiv, 414pp. Full calf, gilt. Frontis. portrait of John Adams and 17 plates. A fine polished calf binding with marbled end-papers and matching edges. Some rubbing. Five raised bands and embossed decoration with a front board gilt embossed dedication 'Premium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter Dediti in Academai Glasguensi' with a oval floral border. No inscriptions or bookplates. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. 12th edition. hard back. Fine. 12mo.
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PITCAIRN: THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE AND THE PASTOR - TO WHICH IS ADDED A SHORT NOTICE OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND
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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1860. 414 pp, tinted end-papers, 18 b&w engraved plates, minor wear to top of spine, else fine copy in gold-blocked, illustrated, green, cloth boards.. Great gold-blocked "Norfolk Island type" pine on spine. 12th edition.
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Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty [...] Sixth edition.
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London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856. Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856. The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later. Book
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Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, pp. 414; engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; mild dampstaining, front free endpaper reinserted, rear free endpaper excised, spine ends cracked, else very good in original terracotta cloth gilt.
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt vignette of a ship on the upper cover.
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