LAY, William (early 19th century) and Cyrus M. HUSSEY. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824. And the Journal of a Residence of a Two Years on the Mulgrave Islands. New London: Lay and Hussey, 1820.
12o (166 x 105 mm). (Small hole on title backed, some dampstaining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION of "one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific history" (Hill). The mutiny, led by Samuel Comstock ("The Terrible Whaleman") resulted in the bloody butchery of the four ship's officers and in the subsequent murder of Comstock and several mutineers by the natives of Mili Atoll. Included is a short vocabulary of the Marshall [i.e. Mulgrave] islands. Howes L-158; Hill, p.176; Sabin 39467.
LAY, William (early 19th century) and Cyrus M. HUSSEY. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824. And the Journal of a Residence of a Two Years on the Mulgrave Islands. New London: Lay and Hussey, 1820.
12o (166 x 105 mm). (Small hole on title backed, some dampstaining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION of "one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific history" (Hill). The mutiny, led by Samuel Comstock ("The Terrible Whaleman") resulted in the bloody butchery of the four ship's officers and in the subsequent murder of Comstock and several mutineers by the natives of Mili Atoll. Included is a short vocabulary of the Marshall [i.e. Mulgrave] islands. Howes L-158; Hill, p.176; Sabin 39467.
