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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779)
A New ... Collection of Voyages round the World ... Containing a New... Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages ... now publishing under the Immediate Direction of George William Anderson, London: for Alex Hogg, [1784-86]. 2° (390 x 238mm.). Engraved portrait of Cook by Noble, folding map and 153 plates, plans and charts. (Occasional spotting and browning and a few minor imperfections). Mid-20th-century roan-backed buckram (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
First Anderson edition containing also accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Mitchell 17.
A New ... Collection of Voyages round the World ... Containing a New... Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages ... now publishing under the Immediate Direction of George William Anderson, London: for Alex Hogg, [1784-86]. 2° (390 x 238mm.). Engraved portrait of Cook by Noble, folding map and 153 plates, plans and charts. (Occasional spotting and browning and a few minor imperfections). Mid-20th-century roan-backed buckram (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
First Anderson edition containing also accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Mitchell 17.
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