Cook´s last voyage, 4 vol..
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COOK´S LAST VOYAGE (4). COOK, JAMES & KING, JAMES. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under Direction of Capteins Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory abridgement of the voyage written by James Cook, F.R.S. and Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with Cuts. In Four Volumes. I-IV. London, printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Witaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784.
8vo. 21,5 x 14 cm. viii, v-xii, 370, xii, 359, xii, 408, xii, 310, (2 blank), (60) pp. With a total of 48 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, and 1 folding sheet of engraved maps.
Contemporary calf, worn and rebacked, new endpapers in volumes II and III. Foxing, stains and some damp. A few repaired tears. First volume lacks half titles. Folding sheet of maps in volume III torn. 4 volumes, probably lacking 2 plates or maps.
One of the two 8vo editions the same year, the other one in three volumes.
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Auktionsnummer:
423998
Datum:
2016-11-29