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Auction archive: Lot number 296

James Cook (1728-1779)

Auction 28.09.2001
28 Sep 2001
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,170 - US$1,755
Price realised:
£646
ca. US$944
Auction archive: Lot number 296

James Cook (1728-1779)

Auction 28.09.2001
28 Sep 2001
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,170 - US$1,755
Price realised:
£646
ca. US$944
Beschreibung:

James Cook (1728-1779) The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery , Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 6 volumes in 5, including portfolio of charts and views and Beaglehole's The Life of Captain James Cook , text volumes 8° (24 x 16cm.), portfolio 2° (39.5 x 26.5cm.), plates, maps and charts (occasional light spotting), original publisher's cloth, portrait of Cook stamped in gilt on front cover, dust-jackets. Provenance: Ralph Hammond Innes, bookplates of his working library, signed, with underlining and annotations. FIRST EDITIONS, FROM THE LIBRARY RALPH HAMMOND INNES (1913-98), WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS. In the preface to ' The Last Voyage, Captain Cook's lost Diary ' Hammond Innes states that '[I] put it all together to the best of my ability, relying on my knowledge and fascination with the subject to fill the gaps, using for reference Cook's official Journal as edited for the Hakluyt Society by Professor Beaglehole, also the journals of those who sailed with him, Clerke, Anderson, Edgar, Samwell, and others' (p. 13). Sold with Addenda and Corrigenda of volume I and II (Cambridge, 1968-69), the addendum of volume IV Cook and the Russians (Cambridge, 1973), and a first edition of Hammond Innes' The Last Voyage (London, 1978, with his bookplate). (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 296
Auction:
Datum:
28 Sep 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

James Cook (1728-1779) The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery , Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 6 volumes in 5, including portfolio of charts and views and Beaglehole's The Life of Captain James Cook , text volumes 8° (24 x 16cm.), portfolio 2° (39.5 x 26.5cm.), plates, maps and charts (occasional light spotting), original publisher's cloth, portrait of Cook stamped in gilt on front cover, dust-jackets. Provenance: Ralph Hammond Innes, bookplates of his working library, signed, with underlining and annotations. FIRST EDITIONS, FROM THE LIBRARY RALPH HAMMOND INNES (1913-98), WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS. In the preface to ' The Last Voyage, Captain Cook's lost Diary ' Hammond Innes states that '[I] put it all together to the best of my ability, relying on my knowledge and fascination with the subject to fill the gaps, using for reference Cook's official Journal as edited for the Hakluyt Society by Professor Beaglehole, also the journals of those who sailed with him, Clerke, Anderson, Edgar, Samwell, and others' (p. 13). Sold with Addenda and Corrigenda of volume I and II (Cambridge, 1968-69), the addendum of volume IV Cook and the Russians (Cambridge, 1973), and a first edition of Hammond Innes' The Last Voyage (London, 1978, with his bookplate). (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 296
Auction:
Datum:
28 Sep 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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