Search Results: a voyage round the world in by hamilton george

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-30. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

Sydney: Hordern House, 1998. 37pp, bibliography, bw ills, 164pp. Or marbled boards with leather spine (quarter leather). White mark along leather on front. Edition limited to 950 copies of which this one of 900 hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf. Originally published in 1793.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ld 1998 1st edition of 950 copies. hard cover, red leather quarter binding, marbled paper on boards, 37 pages including black and white frontis and other illustrations, bibliography, references, plus 164pp of facsimile of original 1793 edition, with portrait frontis. of Hamilton,: previous owner's stamp to free front endpaper, otherwise all in excellent unmarked condition. ISBN 1875567224

Horgern House, 1998. Book. Very Good. hardback. Limited Edition. hardback, octavo, facsimile reprint of a work first printed in 1798, here with an additional essay by Peter Gesner. Printed in a limitation of 950 copies and bound in quarter calf with marbled paper covered boards, the text remains clean and is unmarked, 37 + 164 pp.

Potts Point, Hordern House 1998. . 164pp. 8vo. Original 1/4 calf with marbled boards. Black and white frontis and prints. A fine copy.. Limited to 950 copies.

Sydney: Hordern House. 1998. 8vo, quarter calf, marbled paper boards, b&w frontis, b&w illus (in introductory essay), pp. 164. Limited edition, 950 copies. Near-fine. Facsimile, first printed 1793, reissued for the Australian National Maritime Museum with foreword and introductory essay. The Pandora was sent to recover the "Bounty" and bring the mutineers to justice, and after many adventures was eventually wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef. Limited Ed.. Quarter calf.

Sydney; Hordern House; 1998. (Originally published by W. Phorson, Berwick, MDCCXCIII. [1793].). Limited Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 37, 164; map, portrait frontispiece, hand bound in original quarter cherry Scottish calf over marbled boards; minor fading of spine and top edge, otherwise a fine copy. Limited Edition of 950 copies. Hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf. Includes shipwreck, famine, Society Islands, cannibals, human sacrifice, Tahiti, tattoo's, death by drinking saltwater and many more adventures.

Sydney, Horden House, 1998.. 8vo; pp. 37, 164; map, portrait frontispiece, original full red leather binding, small mark to back of leather, very minor scratches to leather, in original slip case with minor wear to edges, a near fine copy. A Delux issue of 50 copies numbered and signed by Peter Gesner, hand bound in full cherry Scottish calf and presented in a custom made solander case bound in Oxford Library Buckram.

Sydney: Hordern House, 1998. Facsimile of the rare original edition of 1793; introductory essay by Peter Gesner, Curator of Marine Archaeology at the Queensland Museum. Edition strictly limited to 900 copies. Small octavo (220 x 140 mm), 204 pages, with five illustrations and a frontispiece map, printed on Raleigh Tomohawk Text; hand bound by Newbold & Collins in quarter cherry Scottish calf. A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora is one of the rarest and least known eighteenth-century publications relating to Bligh's infamous mutiny on the Bounty. Now for the first time since 1793, this book has been faithfully reproduced complete with the frontispiece portrait of Hamilton, and enriched by modern scholarship, as part of the Australian Maritime Series. The story of the Pandora - the ship which was sent to recover the Bounty and to bring the mutineers to justice - is almost unknown to the modern public. Yet the story rivals even that of Bligh's mutiny on the Bounty for drama and… Read More

Museum. New. 1998. 1875567227 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY - Facsimile of the rare original edition of 1793; introductory essay by Peter Gesner, maritime archaeologist from the Queensland Museum, and foreword by His Excellency Alex Allan, British High Commissioner. - 204 pages, with five illustrations and a frontispiece map. Small octavo (220 x 140 mm) printed on Raleigh Tomohawk Text; hand bound by Newbold & Collins in quarter cherry Scottish calf. Edition limited to 950 copies. -- with a bonus offer-- .

Berwick: Printed by and for W Phorson; B. Law and Son, 1793 An extremely scarce 1st edition copy. Classed as 'fair' because it is lacking the frontispiece portrait and has been rebound in a more recent (?1960's) full leather binding. HMS Pandora was sent to recover The Bounty after the famous mutiny. It sailed on 7 November 1790 and picked up 14 of the mutineers before running aground on the Great Barrier Reef. George Hamilton was the ship's surgeon and the only eye-witness to write up an account of the voyage. This copy is in newer full leather with raised bands and faintly tooled title and author to the spine. New page marker. Contents: initial blank; title page; text 161pp; blank; table of latitudes and longitudes pp 163/4; blank. Page edges are untrimmed and the text is in very good clean condition with light toning to paper. There are some interesting pieces of ephemera: a letter from a previous owner to the Daily Telegraph in 1961, telling them about the book because they had… Read More