Certificate of wages for John Quick, HMS Pembroke, signed

by Lieutenant Cook by Cook: Newfoundland, James Cook

A$72,000 · Offered by Hordern House

Signed

HMS Pembroke: 12 May 1759. Folio, single leaf partly printed and completed in manuscript in ink; docket-title on verso; original folds, a little dusted, head of leaf cropped; in excellent original condition, tipped into a quarter morocco binding. An exceptionally rare document signed by Cook as Master of the Pembroke

• Binding: Leather

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