[Cook, James]: [Camille Adalbert Marie, Baron Clément de La Roncière-Le Noury, et al.]:

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CENTENAIRE DE LA MORT DE COOK CÉLÉBRÉ LE 14 FÉVRIER 1879 A L'HOTEL DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE. A collection of addresses - together with an exhibition catalogue and bibliography - presented on February 14, 1879, at a special meeting of the Société de Géographie on the occasion of the centenary of James Cook's death, reprinted from the May 1879 issue of the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Contents include addresses by society president Baron Clément de La Roncière-Le Noury, William Huber, and Charles de Varigny, as well as an exhibition catalogue by Ernest-Théodore Hamy and a bibliography on Cook by James Jackson. Also included is a chart, engraved and printed by Georges Erhard Schièble of Paris, showing the routes of each of Cook's three voyages. "Contains some interesting addresses on various aspects of Cook's genius, and also a helpful, but not entirely reliable, bibliography by James Jackson" - Holmes.

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