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The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages in 4 Volumes

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Title: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages
Author: Joppien, Rudiger and Bernard Smith
Description: 3 volumes in 4. Includes: 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. 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). 13½x9½, orange cloth, spines lettered in gilt; pictorial jackets; orange cloth slipcase, stamped in gilt. Volumes 1 & 2 are reprints; Volumes 3 & 4 (from Yale U. Press) First Edition.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.
Heading: zzc(Cook, James)Place Published: Melbourne/ New Haven
Publisher: Oxford University Press/ Yale University Press
Date Published: [1985-88]