The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages in 4 Volumes
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Heading: (Cook, James)
Author: Joppien, Ruediger and Bernard Smith
Title: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages
Place Published: New Haven
Publisher:Yale University Press
Date Published: 1985-88
Description:
Author: Joppien, Ruediger and Bernard Smith
Title: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages
Place Published: New Haven
Publisher:Yale University Press
Date Published: 1985-88
Description:
3 volumes in 4, comprising:
Volume 1: The Voyage of the Endeavor, 1768-1771.
Volume 2: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775
Volume 3: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. 2 volumes. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage.
Profusely illustrated throughout from engravings, paintings, facsimiles, maps, etc. (some of which are in color). (Folio) original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt; both parts of volume 3 with pictorial jackets. First Editions.
Spectacular work cataloguing the many drawings and paintings, and the engravings made from them, by the artists of Cook's voyages, being some of the earliest visual records of the people and islands of the Pacific Ocean.
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Light wear to jackets and cloth with some rubbing to extremities; all volumes about near fine or better
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The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages in 4 Volumes
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