![COOKE, George (1781-1834). Scenery of China, Turkey, etc. A Series of Views of the most remarkable localities, celebrated for picturesque beauty or historical and other associations. [London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, plates dated 1820]. Oblong 4° (211 x 270mm). Title, list of plates and 25 engraved plates by Cooke. (Light marginal browning, a few lower margins lightly waterstained, stitching weak, one plate detached.) Contemporary cloth-backed printed limp wrappers (lightly soiled, extremities with a few small chips).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05841_0077_000(cooke_george_scenery_of_china_turkey_etc_a_series_of_views_of_the_most081450).jpg?w=1)
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COOKE, George (1781-1834). Scenery of China, Turkey, etc. A Series of Views of the most remarkable localities, celebrated for picturesque beauty or historical and other associations. [London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, plates dated 1820]. Oblong 4° (211 x 270mm). Title, list of plates and 25 engraved plates by Cooke. (Light marginal browning, a few lower margins lightly waterstained, stitching weak, one plate detached.) Contemporary cloth-backed printed limp wrappers (lightly soiled, extremities with a few small chips).
RARE AND ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF PLATES. No record on ABPC or Americana Exchange. Worldcat lists 2 copies only, one in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Canada and one at the University of Edinburgh. Cooke, a pupil of Basire, produced a number of plates for John Pinkerton’s General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808-14), and it seems probable that they could be purchased separately from the texts which they were designed for.
RARE AND ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF PLATES. No record on ABPC or Americana Exchange. Worldcat lists 2 copies only, one in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Canada and one at the University of Edinburgh. Cooke, a pupil of Basire, produced a number of plates for John Pinkerton’s General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808-14), and it seems probable that they could be purchased separately from the texts which they were designed for.
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