COOK'S VOYAGES] ANDERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages...Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages...Round the World . London: Alex. Hogg, [1784-86]. Full contemporary tree calf. 15 1/4 x 9 3/4 (39 x 25 cm); folio; frontispiece, iv pp. including title, [2] ff. list of subscribers (usually bound at end), partially hand-colored folding map, [5]-[656] pp., and 154 copper-engraved plates. Rebacked to style retaining old gilt lettered spine label and endpapers. Front blank and frontispiece detached (the latter with short repaired tears to margins), folding map lightly browned along one fold with short splits, intermittent browning, a few plates with worn corners or small marginal losses, a few short tears into text or image, one plate trimmed into image, final leaf becoming disbound, boards rubbed. An important collection of Cook's voyages along with those of Carteret, Anson, Drake and others. Originally issued in eighty parts, there are several variants of this work. The present copy contains first issue points such as the Death of Capt. James Cook plate dated "12 March 1784", the frontispiece dated 1784, and the heading of p. 5 reading "A Genuine and Complete History of the Whole of Capt. Cook's Voyages." C
COOK'S VOYAGES] ANDERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages...Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages...Round the World . London: Alex. Hogg, [1784-86]. Full contemporary tree calf. 15 1/4 x 9 3/4 (39 x 25 cm); folio; frontispiece, iv pp. including title, [2] ff. list of subscribers (usually bound at end), partially hand-colored folding map, [5]-[656] pp., and 154 copper-engraved plates. Rebacked to style retaining old gilt lettered spine label and endpapers. Front blank and frontispiece detached (the latter with short repaired tears to margins), folding map lightly browned along one fold with short splits, intermittent browning, a few plates with worn corners or small marginal losses, a few short tears into text or image, one plate trimmed into image, final leaf becoming disbound, boards rubbed. An important collection of Cook's voyages along with those of Carteret, Anson, Drake and others. Originally issued in eighty parts, there are several variants of this work. The present copy contains first issue points such as the Death of Capt. James Cook plate dated "12 March 1784", the frontispiece dated 1784, and the heading of p. 5 reading "A Genuine and Complete History of the Whole of Capt. Cook's Voyages." C
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