BLIGH, William]. [Stephen BARNEY and Edward CHRISTIAN]. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792. On ten persons charged with Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty. With an Appendix containing A full account of the real Causes and Circumstances of that unhappy Transaction, the most material of which have hitherto been withheld from the Public. London: printed for J.Deighton, 1794. 4 o (298 x 235 mm). (A few minor marginal tears or tiny holes.) Modern calf backed boards; quarter calf slipcase. Provenance : P.S. Beure (? name in ink on B2). FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION. "An exceedingly rare publication. Only a small number of copies was printed for distribution among the author's friends, and Ministers of State" (Ferguson). Hill notes that "Only a few copies [of the Minutes...] were printed for distribution among interested parties and the ministers of state at the time. The appendix was the work of Edward Christian, brother of the mutineer Fletcher Christian. This section contains a considerable [amount] of information not found elsewhere concerning the events preceding and subsequent to the mutiny... The court-martial was held on board H.M.S. Duke in Portsmouth Harbor... Three men were found guilty and hanged; the others were pardoned or acquitted." Hill I,p.200; Ferguson 175.
BLIGH, William]. [Stephen BARNEY and Edward CHRISTIAN]. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792. On ten persons charged with Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty. With an Appendix containing A full account of the real Causes and Circumstances of that unhappy Transaction, the most material of which have hitherto been withheld from the Public. London: printed for J.Deighton, 1794. 4 o (298 x 235 mm). (A few minor marginal tears or tiny holes.) Modern calf backed boards; quarter calf slipcase. Provenance : P.S. Beure (? name in ink on B2). FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION. "An exceedingly rare publication. Only a small number of copies was printed for distribution among the author's friends, and Ministers of State" (Ferguson). Hill notes that "Only a few copies [of the Minutes...] were printed for distribution among interested parties and the ministers of state at the time. The appendix was the work of Edward Christian, brother of the mutineer Fletcher Christian. This section contains a considerable [amount] of information not found elsewhere concerning the events preceding and subsequent to the mutiny... The court-martial was held on board H.M.S. Duke in Portsmouth Harbor... Three men were found guilty and hanged; the others were pardoned or acquitted." Hill I,p.200; Ferguson 175.
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