European vision and the South Pacific

by Bernard Smith

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. Second edition originally published 1960 with new introduction, 4to, pp. xiii, 1 , 370; illustrated throughout in b&w and color; very good in dustjacket with minor creasing along top edge and a small, 1/4 tear. An examination of the Western cultural precepts that influenced the artists/draftsmen who accompanied 18th-century Pacific explorers, Cook and La Perouse among them. Item #22481

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