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A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke, and a Sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future Navigators. London: J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1787.
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COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) – COXE, William (1747-1828)
A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke, and a Sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future Navigators. London: J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1787.
First edition: ‘exceedingly rare’ (Holmes) supplement to the Account of the Russian Discoveries, published 7 years after the first two editions. Coxe spent some considerable time in Russia, and notes in the advertisement on p.vii: ‘The author would have arranged, at a more early period, the following Comparative View, which seems necessarily connected with his former publication on the Russian Discoveries; if he had not been absent from England when Cook's Voyage first made its appearance; and if continued travels and avocations had not prevented him from consulting those books, charts, and manuscripts, which the examination of so intricate a subject required.’ The work is dedicated to Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), counsellor of the Board of Mines to the Empress of Russia and member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. We can only trace 6 copies selling at auction in the past 50 years (ABPC/RBH). Forbes 135; Holmes 64; Howes C-835; Lada-Mocarski 29 (note); Sabin 17312; Streeter VI, 3481; not in Hill.
Quarto (262 x 206mm). P. viii, 9-32 (lacking half-title, occasional insignificant scattered spotting). Modern half calf (extremities faintly rubbed).
A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke, and a Sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future Navigators. London: J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1787.
First edition: ‘exceedingly rare’ (Holmes) supplement to the Account of the Russian Discoveries, published 7 years after the first two editions. Coxe spent some considerable time in Russia, and notes in the advertisement on p.vii: ‘The author would have arranged, at a more early period, the following Comparative View, which seems necessarily connected with his former publication on the Russian Discoveries; if he had not been absent from England when Cook's Voyage first made its appearance; and if continued travels and avocations had not prevented him from consulting those books, charts, and manuscripts, which the examination of so intricate a subject required.’ The work is dedicated to Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), counsellor of the Board of Mines to the Empress of Russia and member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. We can only trace 6 copies selling at auction in the past 50 years (ABPC/RBH). Forbes 135; Holmes 64; Howes C-835; Lada-Mocarski 29 (note); Sabin 17312; Streeter VI, 3481; not in Hill.
Quarto (262 x 206mm). P. viii, 9-32 (lacking half-title, occasional insignificant scattered spotting). Modern half calf (extremities faintly rubbed).
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