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WEBBER, James (1750?-1793). Views in the South Seas, from drawings by... Webber, Draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780. London: W. Bulmer & Co. for Boydell & Co., 1808 [but watermarked 1819-1820].
Large 2° (563 x 430mm). 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Webber. (Section of lower outer blank corner of plate 1 neatly replaced, plates 2, 10 and 12 and text leaf to plate 1 with repaired tears to blank margins, occasional light marginal spotting.) Modern green half-morocco gilt, morocco title-label mounted on upper cover. Second edition, on later watermarked paper. Mitchell 1872; cf. Abbey Scenery 595 (variant order of plates).
Large 2° (563 x 430mm). 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Webber. (Section of lower outer blank corner of plate 1 neatly replaced, plates 2, 10 and 12 and text leaf to plate 1 with repaired tears to blank margins, occasional light marginal spotting.) Modern green half-morocco gilt, morocco title-label mounted on upper cover. Second edition, on later watermarked paper. Mitchell 1872; cf. Abbey Scenery 595 (variant order of plates).