Title: Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par M. Castera Author: (Kippis, Andrew) Place: Paris Publisher: Hotel de Thou Date: 1789 Description: 2 volumes. [4], xl, 387; [4], 419. (8vo) 8¼x5½, original plain wrappers. First Edition thus. First French edition of Kippis' Life of Cook, also issued in a quarto edition the same year. As issued in wrappers, edges untrimmed and second volume entirely unopened. Hill 170; Sabin 37955. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrappers worn, especially first volume; faint stains to margin of first few and last couple pages of first volume; short tear to margin of p. 7 in Vol. 2, else very good. Item number: 171066
Title: Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par M. Castera Author: (Kippis, Andrew) Place: Paris Publisher: Hotel de Thou Date: 1789 Description: 2 volumes. [4], xl, 387; [4], 419. (8vo) 8¼x5½, original plain wrappers. First Edition thus. First French edition of Kippis' Life of Cook, also issued in a quarto edition the same year. As issued in wrappers, edges untrimmed and second volume entirely unopened. Hill 170; Sabin 37955. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrappers worn, especially first volume; faint stains to margin of first few and last couple pages of first volume; short tear to margin of p. 7 in Vol. 2, else very good. Item number: 171066
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