An Authentic Narrative Of A Voyage Performed By Captain Cook And Captain Clerke In His Majestys

by Captain James Cook William Ellis

$6,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x , 358, 2 pp; 6 , 347 pp. Half-title volume 1, instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern morocco. Faint foxing, occasional toning, neat repair to bound edge of title and half title, a few small neat repairs to folding map with small tape ghost to bottom edge of same, some mostly marginal worming at middle of vol 2, very good. Beddie 1599; Forbes 41; Hill 555; Howes E-122;

• Binding: Leather

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