Klubbat för:

12000 SEK

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10 000-12 000 SEK

Description

COOK, JAMES. A Collection Of Voyages Round The World: Performed By Royal Authority. Containing A Complete Historical Account Of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third And Last Voyages, Undertaken For New Discoveries, & C. Viz. .. This edition is compiled from the authentic journals of several principal officers and other gentlemen... I-VI. London (i.e. York), (A. Millar, W. Law, R. Cater) 1790.

Large 8vo. (210x130 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Cook, 2 engraved portraits, 32 folding engraved maps, 126 engraved plates (all, Cook's portrait cut to outer margin with some text loss, maps with some folds foxed, minor tears, plates mostly fine, a few browned, some spotting, a few shaved to outer margin or sometimes with loss of title).
Contemporary half calf bindings, rebacked in old style with gilt spines and dark red and black title labels, partly worn with rubbed corners, reinforced inner joints. Text partly with offsetting from plates, some spotting and browning, vol. I more at the end, 2 pages cut in outer margins 1 page with minor hole and loss of corner with minor loss. Bookplates of Robert Marshall, Bengt Olof Kritz, and a bookplate engraved by Harry Soane 1907.

Compare Du Rietz, Biblioteheca Polynesiana 23.
Compiled by George William Anderson and originally issued in 80 parts. The imprint is false, probably printed at York for Wilson, Spence and Mawman. Another edition of Anderson's "A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world", London, Hogg, 1785.
Collation: viii, (9)-372, (3), 374-792, (2), 793-1184,(1), 1185-1546, (2), 1548-1939, (2), 1940-2242 pp. Lacking 1 page "Directions to the Binder" at the end.
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Auktionsnummer:

6098

Date:

2015-12-15