Author: Edwards, Captain Edward; Hamilton, George; Thomson, Basil (introduction).
Title: Voyage of H.M. S. Pandora, Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the Bounty in the South Seas, 1790 - 91.
Description: London Francis Edwards, 1914. 1st ed. Hardback octavo, good plus condition, burgundy cloth cover (lightly flecked), top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, large fold-out map at rear, endpapers & some pages foxed, pages faintly toned, inner hinge little split (pages form), minor edgewear corners, owner's written name. 177 pp. First edition (dated 1914). A description of the voyage of H.M.S. Pandora, as told by the Captain Edward Edwards, which was sent from Britain in 1790 to the Pacific in search of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty. Also includes a report by ship surgeon George Hamilton. The Pandora was shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, in 1791. (Owner's name: Harold W. Brooks, and dated 1934.). ISBN: 00140X

Keywords: history, australian history, maritime, voyages, shipwrecks, criminology, mutiny, queensland, great barrier reef, britain, pacific, collectible, collectable, first edition 00140X


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