Title: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages Author: Joppien, Ruediger and Bernard Smith Place: New Haven Publisher: Yale University Press Date: 1985-88 Description: 3 volumes in 4, comprising: Volume 1: The Voyage of the Endeavor, 1768-1771. Volume 2: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 Volume 3: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. 2 volumes. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. Profusely illustrated throughout from engravings, paintings, facsimiles, maps, etc. (some of which are in color). (Folio) original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt; pictorial jackets. First Editions. Spectacular work cataloguing the many drawings and paintings, and the engravings made from them, by the artists of Cook's voyages, being some of the earliest visual records of the people and islands of the Pacific Ocean. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear; near fine. Item number: 250397
Title: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages Author: Joppien, Ruediger and Bernard Smith Place: New Haven Publisher: Yale University Press Date: 1985-88 Description: 3 volumes in 4, comprising: Volume 1: The Voyage of the Endeavor, 1768-1771. Volume 2: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 Volume 3: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. 2 volumes. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. Profusely illustrated throughout from engravings, paintings, facsimiles, maps, etc. (some of which are in color). (Folio) original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt; pictorial jackets. First Editions. Spectacular work cataloguing the many drawings and paintings, and the engravings made from them, by the artists of Cook's voyages, being some of the earliest visual records of the people and islands of the Pacific Ocean. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear; near fine. Item number: 250397
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