Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty [...] Sixth edition.
by Murray, Rev. Thomas Boyles:
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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 publishers cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Booksellers ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856. The sixth edition of Murrays 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; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty [...] Sixth edition.
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- Murray, Rev. Thomas Boyles:
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Hardcover
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- printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1856
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