Published by The Miegunyah Press, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 1998
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxvii, 364. Frontis. portrait photograph. Illustrated with text maps and diagrams, 19 plates many in color. Glossary, bibliography, 5 appendices, index. Bound in black buckram, gilt lettering stamped on the spine. Light blue endpapers, front printed with Bayly family tree. Ribbon bookmark. Number 19 in the second Miegunyah series. Bayly made eleven voyages around the world in twenty years and colorfully recorded in this journal dramatic encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates. One of 1,000 copies printed, this being an especially fresh copy. Dust jacket preserved in a clear removable archival sleeve.
Published by Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1998
Seller: Bellcourt Books, Hamilton, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 364 pp., b/w and coloured plates. The journals Captain Bayly kept of his travels in the early nineteenth century, are notable for the historical significance of his voyages, and the writer's eye for a good story. They contain eyewitness accounts of the transportation of male and female convicts to Australia, with insights into the nation's economic development.