HAMILTON. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, IN HIS MAJESTY'S FRIGATE PANDORA. 1793

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (185 x 116mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, modern half calf by Aquarius, frontispiece laid down with minor loss and dampstaining, title repaired at top edge, scattered staining, a few small tears

Charles Archer, bookplate; John [Remmey?], No.123, ink stamp

Ferguson 151; Hill (2004) 766

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Hamilton was surgeon aboard the Pandora, under Captain Edward Edwards, which was tasked with rounding up mutineers from the Bounty. “In 1791, the expedition arrived at Tahiti and arrested fourteen of the mutineers. A cage constructed on the quarterdeck of the ship to hold the prisoners was nicknamed ‘Pandora’s Box’… Later in the voyage, the ship was wrecked on the Pandora Reef in Endeavour Strait. Captain Edwards left the prisoners to drown, but the master-at-arms dropped the keys to the mutineers and ten of the fourteen survived. Returning to England in 1792, the mutineers were tried by court martial; three were hanged, the rest acquitted or pardoned” (Hill).