A wonderful Cook-era autograph letter, signed, to Richard Parry Price F.R.S.

by Sir Joseph Banks

A$15,500 · Offered by Hordern House

Signed

Soho Square, London: 23 January 1779. Three pages, quarto, manuscript on paper, integral address leaf with postmarks and Banks's wax seal St. George Cross with fleur-de-lys in quarters on shield ; signed Your affect Servant/ Jos: Banks. ; tipped into a quarter morocco volume with two early engraved portraits of Banks; in fine condition. Banks's S See curiosities and the British Museum

• Binding: Leather

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