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Voyages.- Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Fletcher) Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian,
Voyages.- Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Fletcher) Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian,
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Voyages.- Mutiny on the Bounty.- Christian (Fletcher) Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, containing a Narrative of the Transactions on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty, before and after the Mutiny, first edition, title with loss to fore-edge and neat restoration, lacking frontispiece (as usual), [A2] with small hole to upper margin (neatly restored), occasional faint pencil annotations, occasional short tears to upper margins, several with neat tissue repairs, ex-library with partially erased ink-stamps, scattered spotting and staining, new endpapers, modern antique style calf-backed boards, [Ferguson 239], 8vo, for the Proprietor, and published by H. D. Symonds, 1796.*** A spurious work which claims in seven letters to described Christian's escape from Pitcairn and subsequent travels in South America. Despite all the evidence that Christian died on Pitcairn, there were rumours and stories for years that he had faked his death and had managed to return to England.
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