A Catalogue Of The Different Specimens Of Cloth Collected In The Three Voyages Of Captain Cook To

by Cook Third Voyage Alexander Shaw

A$325,000 · Offered by Hordern House

London: Alexander Shaw, 1787. Quarto, eight pages printed text, followed by original blank leaves separating the 36 actual cloth specimens, several full page as well as many smaller; original calf binding, neatly lettered and decorated spine. The book of 18th-century tapa cloth collected in the Pacific

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