Captain Cook
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# 34500
PARTINGTON, JAMES Edge (1854 - 1930)
Books, maps and pictures relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. A catalogue of the library of the late James Edge Partington.
London : Francis Edwards, 1934, Two volumes, octavo, bound in library buckram without the wrappers, pp. [iv]; 94; [ii]; 96 – 178; xvii, catalogue of 2682 rare books, maps and pictures, with index and black and white illustrations. The library of of one of the great collectors of Australia and the Pacific. A very good …
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# 32580
HERISSON, Eustache ; BONNE, Rigobert
Carte générale de l’Europe, ou l’on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.
Dressée par Hérisson, Eleve de Mr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. A Paris : chez Basset Md d’Estampes Rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, no. 670, 1802. Copperplate engraving, original outline hand colour, 525 x 755 mm (image), old folds as issued, a fine example. Map of Europe showing the departures …
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# 32748
BOLTON, Lissant (and others, editors)
Melanesia : Art and Encounter
Edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt. London : The British Museum Press, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 384, illustrated. New copy. The British Museum’s uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the …
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# 25915
[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); WEBBER, John, 1752-1793 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)
[COOK] Four nineteenth-century photographs of eighteenth-century engravings of Tahitian subjects.
Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Four albumen print photographs of copperplate engravings, 130 x 203 mm (1. and 2.) / 167 x 130 mm (3.) / 110 x 210 mm (4.); unmounted; versos all with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; (1.) and (2.) with mild …
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# 16669
KIPPIS, Andrew (1725-1795)
[COOK] Andrew Kippis : autograph letter, signed.
Sydenham, Kent, 17 June 1776. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on single folio sheet of wove paper watermarked G.R., 360 x 230 mm, written on 1 1/4 sides, addressed to ‘The Rev. Mr. Parry, at Cirencester, Gloucestershire’, signed at the foot ‘Your most affectionate Brother and obliged Servant, And. Kippis’; remnants of wax seal; original …
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# 19469
MILLS, Alfred
[COOK]. Costumes of different nations, in miniature, from drawings by Alfred Mills.
London : Darton, Harvey, & Darton, and J. Harris, 1814. Miniature book, 62 x 62 mm., publisher’s roan (expertly rebacked), gilt-lettering to spine, child’s name to preliminary blank, 96 pp. with 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world, a very good copy. A charming miniature being an ethnographical tour of different races of the …
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# 18214
SEWARD, Anna
Miss Seward’s monody on Major Andre; and elegy on Captain Cook. Also Mr. Pratt’s sympathy, a poem.
London : Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown et al, 1817. Tenth printing. Duodecimo, diced calf (worn, front hinge tender), bookplate for Baron Dickinson Webster to front pastedown, stipple frontispiece, engraved plates, pp. 178. A Monody on Major André was first published in Lichfield in 1781; An Elegy on Captain Cook was first published in …
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# 11693
ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich
Zimmermann’s account of the third voyage of Captain Cook 1776 – 1790
Translated by Miss U. Tewsley, of the Library Staff, under direction of Johannes C. Anderson. With a few Explanatory Notes. Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin No. 2. Wellington : W.A.G. Skinner (Government Printer), 1926. Octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 49; two plates. The author sailed with Cook on his voyage in search of the North …
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# 13762
BRITISH MUSEUM
[COOK]. British Museum (Natural History). Famous naturalists. Series No. 1
10 cards in monochrome. Set H 2. London : British Museum, 1925. Printed envelope containing 10 illustrated postcards with a printed booklet of 8 pp. detailing biographical information on each naturalist. The figures include Buffon, Cook, Cuvier, Jardine, Linnaeus, Lyell, Murchison, Owen, Pasteur and Pennant. Slight staple rust from booklet to first card else fine. …
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# 12200
SÖDERSTRÖM, J. (Jan)
A. Sparrman’s ethnographical collection from James Cook’s 2nd expedition (1772-1775)
Stockholm : Bokförlags aktiebolaget Thule, 1939. Series: The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. New Series, Publication No. 6. Quarto, publisher’s stiff textured wrappers, presentation description to half-title, 70 pp, 24 leaves of plates, a very good copy. Scarce. Anders Sparrman joined Cook’s second voyage at the Cape of Good Hope, and served as assistant naturalist to Johann …